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he was prosecuted for large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists, political opponents

their families, at secret concentration camps. The accusations also included the theft of many babies born during the captivity of their mothers at the illegal detention centres

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Dirty War

state-sponsored violence against Argentine citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983

30,000

"disappeared

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Tags: usa, history, argentina, junta, coup, fascist

20 Heads of State in Venezuela for Pact on Cheap Oil

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:46:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The pact has helped Chavez promote his vision of regional independence from the United States. He used the summit to blame Washington for international economic problems, and called US military spending in Iraq "madness."

He also denied criticism from Venezuelan opponents who say he is giving away Venezuela's oil wealth.

Reading from an opposition statement accusing him of "bribery diplomacy," Chavez mused: "It's very probable this was written in the U.S. Embassy."

Some Petrocaribe member countries have the option of paying partially for oil with services or goods such as rice, bananas and sugar.

To help boost agriculture, Chavez said Venezuela will donate US$460 million from its oil proceeds annually to create an aid fund providing farming supplies and machinery in the region. He also offered to supply subsidized fertilizer to other countries.
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Great man. Any of this in the 'free and fair' USA media? Doubt it!

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Venezuela's Chavez loosens terms of oil-supply pact

Chavez on Sunday touted a pact delivering fuel to Caribbean nations and loosened the financing terms to aid countries struggling with high oil prices

nations taking part in the Petrocaribe initiative will now be required to pay just 40 percent of the bill within 90 days — down from the current 50

the rest can be paid over the next 25 years at a fixed interest rate of 1 percent as long as oil prices are above US$100 a barrel

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Petrocaribe

a Caribbean oil alliance with Venezuela to purchase oil on conditions of preferential payment. The alliance was launched in June of 2005

the PetroCaribe agreement is based on eliminating all intermediaries."

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nearly 20 heads of state are attending a Petrocaribe summit in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo

"It is an obligation to help the weakest" countries

"The United States would pay us $200 a barrel for oil — give it to me then,"

"Now Haiti, no. Haiti gets preferential treatment

everyone according to their needs."

Bush-Uribe-Drugs-CIA- Noriega-Bush Senior

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:09:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Will Uribe end up in a U.S. jail like Noriega did after his days as a drug runners are done? Will Columbia be invaded like Panama to 'arrest' him?

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U.S. INTELLIGENCE LISTED COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT URIBE AMONG
"IMPORTANT COLOMBIAN NARCO-TRAFFICKERS" IN 1991

Then-Senator "Dedicated to Collaboration with the Medellín Cartel at High Government Levels"

Confidential DIA Report Had Uribe Alongside Pablo Escobar, Narco-Assassins

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Uribe "Worked for the Medellín Cartel" and was a "Close Personal Friend of Pablo Escobar"

Uribe Vélez of Colombia was a "close personal friend of Pablo Escobar" who was "dedicated to collaboration with the Medellín [drug] cartel at high government levels," according to a 1991 intelligence report from U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials in Colombia

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Manuel Noriega

from the late 1950s to the 1980s, and was on the CIA payroll for much of this time, although the relationship had not become contractual until 1967

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Álvaro Uribe

asked for President Uribe to be investigated for bribery

called Uribe a "pawn of the empire"

plan the 1997 massacre of El Aro,

links between politicians and paramilitary groups

Salvatore Mancuso

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Tags: latinamerica, columbia, panama, bush, drugs, cia

Chilian President was Assassinated! New evidence.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:51:16 GMT

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Forensics expert says ex-Chilean president was assasinated

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A court forensics expert said yesterday that former Chilean president Eduardo Frei Montalva was assassinated in January 1982 after a simple hernia operation during the rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

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The statement by Carmen Cerda, the chief of the forensics team investigating the case, confirmed long-time suspicions that Frei Montalva, who was Chile's elected president from 1964 to 1970, had died of foul play at age 71. Medical officials had said that infection related to the surgery was the cause of death.

Cerda, however, said that a combination of toxins, including mustard gas, gradually administered to the former president ultimately killed him. If confirmed, Frei Montalva would be the only Chilean president to be assassinated.

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Augusto Pinochet

was a Chilean military officer and dictator. He was President of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1974 and, by decree of the Junta

civilian rule in 1990.

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Eduardo Frei Montalva

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Tags: latinamerica, assassination, chile, president, history

The School of Hard Energy Knocks

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:29:33 GMT

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The School of Hard Energy Knocks

As you know, all countries are graded on their performance in energy

If the United States, China, Russia, Canada and Ukraine achieved the basic energy standard, global energy use would be reduced 15%.

use. I have taken each country’s size (its GDP) and level of development (per capita income) into account in grading its energy efficiency.

Each country’s energy use is measured against our Testing Standard, which is created using customary statistical methods.

If the United States, China, Russia, Canada and Ukraine achieved the basic energy standard, global energy use would be reduced 15%.

Latin America, often a neglected group of students, has the best grades of any group.

As the student with the richest parents, we are sad to report that the United States has earned only a “D” on our standardized test, squandering 30% extra energy.

Of the 26 European and central Asian students, none got an “A” — and only one, Albania, got a “B.”

China

a “D”

Canada did worse

“F”

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$50 a Barrel for OIL!? Court Case Lost by Exxon to Chavez!

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:29:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Two events that were not reported in the US 'fair and balanced' media.The $50 a barrel item was on Monday April 3, 2006.

The UK court case that Exxon lost against Venezuela was published on March 25, 2008. The commencement of the case was covered extensively but the outcome and loss was ignored.

Wouldn't it be nice now to have a barrel of oil at $50? Pity politics got in the way of business for once.

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Chávez seeks to peg oil at $50 a barrel

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· Price could see Venezuela producing for 200 years
· Country's reserves may exceed Saudi Arabia's

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Chávez is poised to launch a bid to transform the global politics of oil by seeking a deal with consumer countries which would lock in a price of $50 a barrel

A long-term agreement at that price could allow Venezuela to count its huge deposits of heavy crude as part of its official reserves, which Caracas says would give it more oil than Saudi Arabia.

"We have the largest oil reserves in the world, we have oil for 200 years." Mr Chávez told the BBC's Newsnight programme in an interview to be broadcast tonight. "$50 a barrel - that's a fair price, not a high price."

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Venezuela's Chavez celebrates legal victory over Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Judge Paul Walker's March 18 decision tossed out an order to freeze US$12 billion (€7.8 billion) in assets belonging to Petroleos de Venezuela S.A., or PDVSA — a move Chavez lauded as "a victory against (U.S.) imperialism."

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Tags: chevez, oil, usa, uk, court

Sex: Outing Brazil's military secrets

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:24:35 GMT

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Outing Brazil's military secrets

Despite the fact that their country plays host to the largest pride festival in the world, gay soldiers in Brazil face humiliating discrimination

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The imprisonment of a gay soldier in the Brazilian army has sparked a nationwide debate about sexuality and discrimination in the world's largest Catholic country.

Army sergeant Laci Marinho de Araújo, revealed that he was gay in an interview with a national news magazine, Epoca, which featured the story on its front page. He and his partner, sergeant Alcântara de Figueiredo, have maintained a serious relationship since 1997 and have lived together for most of that time. They spoke about the prejudices against gay people in the Brazilian armed forces and how they had been forced to conceal their relationship from official view.

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Brazil + Gay Pride = Big Party !

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Monday June 16 2008

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35 Year Wait for Justice for CIA Chile Coup Killer at last

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:16:54 GMT

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It would have strained credulity to imagine during the orgy of terror unleashed by the US-backed coup on the other 9/11, in 1973

35 years after Richard Nixon gave the green light to the Chilean military to drown Salvador Allende's elected socialist government in blood, the net is finally closing on the man who personally machine-gunned to death one of the outstanding political songwriters of the 20th century

The net is finally closing on El Principe, the Pinochet henchman who brutally killed Chile's most famous musician

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introduction

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the judge has reversed his earlier decision

the judge has reversed his earlier decision and agreed to look at 40 pieces of new evidence

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Tags: chile, cia, coup, 9/11, music, utube, latinamerica

Che's Children seek respect not money

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:25:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A man who fought and died trying to overthrow capitalism and material excess should not be used to sell British vodka, French fizzy drinks and Swiss mobile phones, among other travesties, she said. "We don't want money, we demand respect."

Aleida, 47, the eldest of Guevara's four children by his second wife, made the comments during an internet forum sponsored by Cuba's government ahead of what would have been her father's 80th birthday on June 14.

The complaint came amid a surge of renewed interest in Guevara.

The actor Benicio del Toro won best actor at the Cannes Film Festival this month for his portrayal in Steven Soderbergh's four and a half hour epic Che.

Camilo Guevara, a son, who participated in the forum, said he welcomed the film as long as it was faithful to his father's memory.

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Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

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an icon of the 20th century whose brand has turned into a worldwide marketing phenomenon. If you want to shift more products or give your corporate image a bit of edge, the Argentine revolutionary's face and name are there to be used, like commercial gold dust

The scraggly beard, the beret adorned with a star, the intense gaze: it is an instantly recognisable image which has been used to sell everything from booze to T-shirts to mugs to bikinis

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Guevara's children speak out against commercialisation of iconic image

The fact that Guevara was a communist guerrilla and Marxist ideologue is an irony of little interest to his capitalist exploiters. It has, however, become a problem for his children

Aleida Guevara this week denounced the commercialisation of her father's image as an affront to his socialist ideals

"Something that bothers me now is the appropriation of the figure of Che that has been used to make enemies from different classes. It's embarrassing."

Tags: history, latinamerica, cuba, execution, children, bolivia

Colombia's Uribe refuses to rule out third term

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:24:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Uribe is a Wall Street favorite but many investors and analysts say a third term by the bespectacled conservative would present a threat to the independence of Colombian institutions, such as the courts and the central bank."

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BOGOTA, June 4 (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, whose "Democratic Security" policies have put leftist rebels on the defensive and sparked economic growth, refused on Wednesday to rule out a third run for office.

Uribe, elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006 after Congress passed a constitutional amendment allowing a second term, is flirting with running again in 2010. This would require another change in law.

"We seek to assure the re-election of Democratic Security and investor confidence," Uribe told local radio when asked if he would like to run again, declining to endorse allies such as Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos who are possible candidates.

Colombia, in the grips of a four-decade-old guerrilla insurgency funded by the cocaine trade, is home to regular political violence against trade unionists and others suspected of pro-rebel sympathies.

Tags: uribe, empire, colombia, proxy, south america, war, war crimes

Chavez to Try Referendum Again

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:26:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Guess what will get missed AGAIN in the analysis of this story:

1. The Venezuelian voters will be ASKED once more to decide.

2. The ability of Chavez to run in COMPETITIVE elections is no different than what occurs in paralimentry democracies throughout the world.

3. The USA holds referendums on any matter of national interest.

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Venezuela's ruling party is pledging to push through reforms that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely.

Willian Lara is a leader of the Venezuelan United Socialist Party. He said Tuesday the party would propose organizing another referendum to ask voters if they think Chavez should be able to seek re-election when his current term ends in 2012

Chavez was first elected in 1998. He has suggested that a referendum could be held in 2010 to ask Venezuelans whether they support an amendment to end presidential term limits.

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Dublin Zoo: Nature's Way is Best Way

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:23:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I was reminded of this while visiting last week. I'm a member and had been informed of this in our newsletter.

In the brand new extensive Zoo area, two new caves have been born. I love visiting my relatives with my grandchild.

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The South American Kissing Bugs

Dublin Zoo is pioneering the use of 'Living Needles' a major new technique in which a blood-sucking insect is used to test the health and well-being of its animals

The South American Kissing Bugs or Triamtomid Bugs' voracious appetite offers keepers and vets a stress free means of gaining samples of blood without the use of needles and syringes

Insects are introduced to the skin of the animal where they spend up to half an hour gorging on its blood. This is in turn extracted from the bug using a syringe so the blood can be tested in the lab. The method is painless to the animal and also leaves the insect unharmed

Keepers were able to use the technique with excellent results on Yasmin the Asian elephant who recently gave birth to her second calf in late February

It is difficult to take blood from an elephant using a needle, particularly in the latter stages of gestation. Her keepers didn't want her getting upset or stressed,

it was imperative that they monitor

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Another Bush Legacy: UNASUR, a United South America vs USA

Sun, 25 May 2008 15:12:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bush's Columbia drug state is the only one South American not yet fully in step. How long can the US afford to continue propping up the only remaining fascist SA state?

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said

"South America, united, will move the board game of power in the world, not for its own benefit, but for everyone's,"

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Full members

Members of the Andean Community (CAN)¹:
- Bolivia (started in 2006 the process of joining Mercosur)
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Peru

Members of Mercosur²:
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Paraguay
- Uruguay
- Venezuela

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Lula called upon the leaders of the remaining 11 members of Unasur not to let themselves be fooled "by the arguments of those who, based on protectionist interests or geopolitical motivations, are annoyed by the growth of (South American) industry and our agriculture."

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Correa, Morales, Lula, Bachelet e Chávez

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Michelle Bachelet, President

a GDP

of 2.65 trillion dollars

361 million people

27% of the world's freshwater

world's foremost food producer and exporter

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"It is time to strengthen our continent in the field of defence.

"It is time to strengthen our continent in the field of defence

based on common values and principles

sovereignty

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United South America!

Sun, 25 May 2008 02:44:23 GMT

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Lula: United South America to shake global balance of power

Brasilia - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday in Brasilia that a United South America can shift the global balance of power. "South America, united, will move the board game of power in the world, not for its own benefit, but for everyone's," Lula said

As he opened the summit to launch the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), the region's latest integration initiative, Lula stressed that the region can contribute to overcoming the current world food cr