http://www.latimes.com…
Soldiers and officers convicted or implicated in the deaths of six priests in 1989 are free under a controversial amnesty law. Victims’ relatives and rights groups turn to Spain’s courts.
By Tracy Wilkinson and Alex Renderos
November 13, 2008
Reporting from Mexico City and San Salvador — The murder 19 years ago of six Jesuit priests by a [...]
http://narcosphere.narconews.com…
Bill Conroy - November 1, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Celerino “Cele” Castillo III, a former DEA agent who played a key role in exposing the U.S. government’s role in narco-trafficking as part of the Iran/Contra scandal, is now a discredited man.
At least that is what the office of U.S. Attorney Johnny “House of Death” Sutton in [...]
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AFP
Published: Wednesday October 29, 2008
The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for the 17th year in a row Wednesday to demand an end to the 46-year-old US trade embargo on communist-ruled Cuba, with only three countries saying no.
Some 185 of the assembly’s 192 members voted in favor of the text which reiterated a “call upon all [...]
http://www.inthesetimes.com…
By Jacob Wheeler
As El Salvador prepares to hold its presidential and parliamentary elections early next year, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) worries the Bush administration might be drumming up fear to sway results.
http://www.alternet.org…
By Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet
Posted on September 23, 2008, Printed on September 24, 2008
On Monday, Sept. 15, Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived in Santiago, Chile for an emergency meeting of Latin American leaders that convened to seek a resolution to the recent conflict in Bolivia. Upon his arrival, Morales said, “I have come here to explain [...]
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War.
The Kremlin recently has moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American nations amid increasingly strained relations with [...]
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AFP
Published: Thursday July 31, 2008
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin and a top security official met Cuban President Raul Castro on Thursday as part of a three-day visit focusing on building commercial ties, official media said.
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radiojamaica
Radio Jamaica
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:21 EDT
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has weighed in on the bombers’ controversy between Russia and the United States.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/…
AFP
Published: Thursday July 24, 2008
Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday denied a report it was considering basing bomber aircraft in Cuba in retaliation for US missile defence plans in Eastern Europe, a news agency reported.
http://www.miamiherald.com/…
Money destined for Cuba democracy programs has been frozen following charges of massive fraud.
Posted on Tue, Jul. 22, 2008
BY FRANCES ROBLES
Congress has put the U.S. Agency for International Development’s $45 million Cuba program’s 2008 funding on hold, following a series of troubling audits and cases of massive fraud, The Miami Herald has learned.
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism…Howard Thurman
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