Friday, April 9, 2010 2:12:13 AM
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La Verdad Obrera 369/International
Thursday, April 8, 2010
By Celeste Murillo
At least five dead is the toll left by the repression ordered by Peruvian President Alan García against the miners that were blockading the roads in southern Peru. The strike by the so-called artisanal miners, that began on April 5, was called by the Federación Nacional de Mineros Artesanales del Perú (FENMARPE) and the Federación Minera de Madre de Dios, against Emergency Decree 012-2010, which declares artisanal mining in the southern region of Peru illegal, in order to classify it as "formal mining." The extraction of gold in the south employs more than 40,000 people and represents a business that exceeds six hundred million dollars a year.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010 6:38:25 PM
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The statements of Silvio Rodríguez
The political regime under discussion: Can the bureaucracy reform itself? By Diego Dalay Thursday, April 1, 2010
In an act with much impact, on March 26, the famous Cuban songwriter Silvio Rodríguez presented in public his new record, "Second Date." Produced a few months after the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution, its exclusive subject matter is the internal situation on the island. His statements revived the discussions about the crossroads that Raúl Castro's government is going through, the Cuban political regime and the urgent problems that confront the masses.Read more...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:04:15 AM
By Celeste Murillo
Friday, October 16, 2009
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The Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama surprised everyone, including Obama himself, who accepted the Prize, but hastened to say, as if clarification were needed, that he has made no effort, insofar as peace is concerned, and that he does not see it as a recognition of his achievements, “but rather as an affirmation of US leadership ...” A “sensible” statement, if we consider just the two wars of the United States under way, in Iraq and Afghanistan.Read more...
Thursday, October 1, 2009 1:59:24 AM
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In view of Zelaya’s asylum in the Embassy of Brazil
What is Lula betting on in Honduras?
By: Simone Ishibashi
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Zelaya’s return to Honduras has put Brazil in the center of the tension that is covering that country in Central America. Outside of the Brazilian Embassy, the army commanded by the coup plotters savagely repressed the popular mobilization that surrounded the house, officially Brazilian territory, leaving the Embassy militarized. The balance of Micheletti’s coup plotters’ offensive was hundreds of people arrested and many people injured by rubber bullets and tear gas canisters. Later it was announced that the coup plotters will shut off the lights in Tegucigalpa for 48 hours, in a new attempt to end the heroic mobilization of the Honduran people. The brutal repression during the early morning of September 22 left a toll of 2 people dead, in addition to numerous people injured. On September 23, a very large mobilization was again repressed. So far, coup plotter Micheletti states that he will not invade the Brazilian Embassy, and that “Zelaya can live in the Embassy for 5, 10 years, or as long as he wants”; the Embassy grounds and the surrounding area are militarized. However, Micheletti goes on demanding of the Brazilian government that it hand over Zelaya to the coup plotters’ government, that intends to imprison him, or that Brazil give him asylum, a matter that is refused, both by Zelaya himself and by Lula’s government. Given this situation, one could wonder what is behind Lula’s policy for Latin America, in view of this episode, after the strengthening of military capability agreed with France a few weeks ago and after the announcement of the installation new US military bases in Colombia.Read more...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:54:17 AM
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By Thiago Flamé
Thursday, September 10, 2009
President Lula used the national independence holiday, September 7, and the French President's presence in Brazil to announce the conclusion, in favor of France, of a process of purchasing armaments that was creeping along at least since 2001, according to some daily papers, or since 1994, according to others. The military agreement with France, described as the biggest action by Brazil since the Second World War, includes the purchase of 4 common submarines, 50 helicopters, and technical collaboration for the construction of a base, a shipyard, and a nuclear submarine, with a total value of 22 million reais. The most controversial point domestically was the announcement that the renovation of the Brazilian air force is going to be done with 36 Rafale fighter planes, for about 10 billion reais, 40% more costly than the US F-18's, that were also being contested. Lula made the announcement before a official position by the air force, which would only be stated at the end of October, which led the Ministry of Defense to publish an official note stating that part of the agreement was still not settled. In spite of that, there is every indication that the announcement made by Lula is irreversible, still more so after the compensation offered by Sarkozy of buying 10 of the new cargo planes for troop transports that Embraer is developing.Read more...
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