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The hostile declarations from various Washington representatives during the past few weeks, accusing Venezuela of failure to combat narcotics operations, violating human rights, “not contributing to democracy and regional stability”, and of being the “regional anti-US leader”, form part of a coordinated campaign that seeks to justify a direct aggression against Venezuela
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The Orinoco Belt, situated squarely underneath the South American nation, may hold some 513 billion barrels of crude oil, according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
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Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. This is particularly true for the global south, where land has been concentrated for crops destined for biodiesel and animal feed. In response, peasants and small farmers organized actions in more than 53 countries on October 15 for International Food Day as an initiative of Via Campesina, one of the largest independent social movement organizations, representing nearly 150 million people globally.
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Leftist Latin American leaders have agreed on using a new intra- regional trading currency, dubbed as Sucre, instead of the US dollar. Bolivian President Evo Morales, who hosted leaders of the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean (ALBA), said that the “document is approved.”
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The lesson of the lost sheep applies today in Honduras, where the pro-coup media is abuzz with gloating obsession over two acts of property destruction yesterday that happened near an otherwise peaceful protest march in the capital city of Tegucigalpa
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What many consider the most compelling case for nonviolent discipline in a movement is that it more effectively peels away the layers of support for a regime
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WHO oversaw massive vaccination campaigns against tetanus in a number of countries. Some of the vials were found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG)
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Chiquita (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food severely criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of 60% in Honduras’s minimum wage. Joined by textile manufacturers and exporters, relying on cheap labor to work in their sweatshops.
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