Thursday, September 21st, 2006 - Democracy Now! News Program - Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington DC. Letelier was a high-ranking government official in Chile under President Salvador Allende. Following the 1973 US-backed coup in Chile led by General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier was imprisoned and tortured. After his release, he moved to the United States where we worked for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. (…)
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CHILE-UNITED STATES - Thirty Years After the Assassination of Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier, His Son Francisco is Still Seeking Justice
Peter Kornbluh, Francisco Letelier, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
2 October 2006, posted by Dial -
VENEZUELA - An Analysis of Hugo Chavez United Nations Address on September 20, 2006
Greg Grandin, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
2 October 2006, posted by DialAMY GOODMAN: Greg Grandin joins us in the studio now, professor of Latin American history at New York University, author of Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism. Welcome to Democracy Now!
GREG GRANDIN: Thanks for having me.
AMY GOODMAN: Your assessment of President Chavez’s speech at the UN and the message he was putting out?
GREG GRANDIN: Well, I think he was speaking on a number of levels. The most immediate level, he was trying to (…) -
BOLIVIA - President Evo Morales on Latin America, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Role of the Indigenous People of Bolivia
Evo Morales, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
29 September 2006, posted by DialDemocracy Now! News Program - Friday, September 22nd, 2006 - Ten months ago, Evo Morales made history when he became the country’s first indigenous leader. At his inauguration in January, he declared the end of Bolivia’s colonial and neo-liberal era. Since then he has moved to nationalize parts of the country’s vast energy reserves and strengthen Bolivia’s ties to Venezuela and Cuba.
Morales’ rise to power began with his leadership of the coca growers union and his high-profile opposition (…) -
DOCUMENTARY - UNITED STATES - "American Blackout": Investigating Black Voters Disenfranchisement
29 September 2006, posted by Dial
– Director: Ian Inaba Year: 2006 92 min
Film Synopsis
Most people have heard of the voting irregularities that marred the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Some even know of the resulting challenges to the electoral votes by African-American congressional representatives. However, because the mainstream media shies away from reporting cases of imperiled democracy the public is left to believe these stories are at worst insignificant rumors or at best one-off incidents that result (…) -
US - Hundreds Arrested in Week of Anti-War Actions (by Haider Rizvi)
28 September 2006, posted by Mika
IPS - Demonstrations, marches, rallies, vigils and prayer meetings continue to take place in dozens of cities across the United States this week as part of a nationwide campaign aiming to force the administration of President George W. Bush and Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Since last Thursday, when more than 500 anti-war groups and religious organisations signed on to the "Declaration of Peace", some 250 activists have been arrested in various cities for taking part in (…) -
HONDURAS-ESTADOS UNIDOS - Rafael Callejas, de Aliado Fiel a Persona Non Grata (por Thelma Mejía, IPS)
22 de septiembre de 2006, puesto en línea por Dial
TEGUCIGALPA, sep (IPS) - Carismático y hábil, el ex presidente hondureño Rafael Callejas (1990-1994) había logrado salir airoso de acusaciones de corrupción en su país, pero no pudo evadir la sanción moral de Estados Unidos, que le revocó la visa cuando hacía fila ante la ventanilla de migraciones en el aeropuerto de Miami.
Callejas viajaba con su esposa Norma Regina el 18 de este mes y, según un comunicado de la embajada de Estados Unidos en Honduras, la decisión de revocarle la visa se (…) -
VENEZUELA - Discurso de Hugo Chávez ante la ONU (por Hugo Chávez, Rebelión)
21 de septiembre de 2006, puesto en línea por Manuela Garza Ascencio
Nueva York, 20 de Septiembre del 2006.
Señora Presidenta, Excelencias, Jefes de Estado, Jefes de Gobierno, y altos representantes de los gobiernos del mundo. Muy buenos días a todos y a todas
En primer lugar quiero invitarles con mucho respeto, a quienes no hayan podido leer este libro, a que lo leamos: Noam Chomsky, uno de los más prestigiosos intelectuales de esta América y del mundo. Chomsky, uno de sus más recientes trabajos: Hegemonía o Supervivencia. La estrategia imperialista de (…) -
VENEZUELA - Hugo Chávez Address to the United Nations (by Hugo Chávez, Common Dreams News Center)
21 September 2006, posted by Manuela Garza Ascencio
New York, Wednesday 20 September 2006.
Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it.
Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States. [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.] (…) -
AMERICAS - Five Years After 9-11: Bush’s Backward Slide in Latin America
Raúl Zibechi, IRC
19 de septiembre de 2006, puesto en línea por Manuela Garza Ascencio, Raúl ZibechiIRC - Five years after the September 11 attacks, the United States under George W. Bush is weaker and more cut off from Latin America than it has ever been. For the first time since World War II, the United States is no longer the most important factor in the continent’s politics, to the point where we can say that a certain regional multilateralism has been developed in the hemisphere. Brazil is the main counterbalance to Washington in the region, but the growing importance of Argentina (…)
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CUBA - La maladie de Fidel Castro et les illusions de Washington (par Salim Lamrani, Voltaire)
5 septembre 2006, mis en ligne par Dial
18 août 2006 - Voltaire - Le 31 juillet 2006, un sérieux problème de santé a frappé le président cubain Fidel Castro. Ce dernier a été contraint de céder, de manière provisoire, ses pouvoirs au vice-président Raúl Castro, en vertu de l’article 94 de la Constitution cubaine. Cet événement a ravivé les convoitises de Washington et de l’extrême droite cubaine sur l’île des Caraïbes, désireux de reprendre le contrôle du pays. Face à cette menace réelle, huit prix Nobel ainsi que plus de 400 (…)
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