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Latin America Experts Condemn U.S. Detention and Search of Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba
July 10, 2008 ... agents detained Senator Cordoba for approximately three hours and searched her belongings. During this time, the ... without charges and interrogated for approximately three hours at J.F.K. Airport in New York. Senator Córdoba has ... -
War vs Peace: Colombia, Venezuela and the FARC Hostage Saga
February 8, 2008 ... conflict, in the first place to negotiate an exchange of 47 FARC-held prisoners for 500 FARC fighters in currently in ... -
Colombian Hostages Released to Venezuela
January 10, 2008 ... Venezuela, where they will arrive in approximately three hours." Maria Fernanda Perdomo waiting in Caracas to be ... -
National Guard attacks Sidor workers
March 4, 2008 Caracas, March 4, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com) - In a short telephone interview with Stalin Perez Borges, a national coordinator of the National Union of Workers and leader of the Marea Socialista union current, news and analysis website www.aporrea.org... -
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council Successfully Concludes Voting Test
October 28, 2008 ... in Venezuela. The CNE hopes to have partial results three hours after polling booths close. The president of the CNE, ... -
Venezuela Drenched As Elections Draw Near
November 21, 2008 ... for children, toilets, and an eating area. From the early hours of Friday morning government teams were out on the ... -
Venezuela: Government and communities organize to ensure food distribution
February 27, 2008 ... of food they received weekly is sold in less than three hours. A Mercal worker in Mara, Aurelio Avilez, claimed that ... knew how to value the citizens who remained waiting for hours anticipating...he decided to close and [expletive] the ... -
Venezuela's 2008 Regional Elections
November 26, 2008 ... oversight by posting official results online less than 24 hours after the polls closed. U.S. media coverage - including ... of the voting available online through its website just hours after all of the 11,297 polling stations closed. This ... -
US-Backed Right-Wing Launches Violent Assault on Chavistas, Venezuelan Revolutionary Gains
December 1, 2008 ... of the governorship of Miranda arrived in the early hours of the morning in Baruta, to an Integral Diagnostic ... government. However, the coup was defeated within 48 hours by a mass uprising of workers and the poor, together ... -
Inside the walls of Merida
BlogSeptember 2, 2008 In order to build the youth team meeting in our community, we (myself and a representative from my branch) went through the list of 102 young people registered for the PSUV, and visited each house, systematically going up and down the avenues... -
The Coddled "Terrorists" of South Florida
January 19, 2008 ... Osiel Gonzalez squints down the worn barrel of an AK-47 rifle and squeezes the trigger. With a crack and kick the ... Miami area residents after they clambered ashore with AK-47 assault rifles, an M-3 carbine fitted with a silencer and ... -
Was the United States Involved in Recent Attacks Targeting the FARC-EP?
March 12, 2008 ... folk-musician), and twenty other members of the FARC-EP. Hours after the assault had taken place Defence Minister ... -
Ex-Coca-Cola Workers Shut Down Facilities of Former Employer in Venezuela
February 14, 2008 ... the company's Venezuela operations were shut down for 48 hours for tax evasion in March 2007. The disciplinary measure ... -
Exxon Must Undo False Accusations Against Venezuelan Oil Company
March 23, 2008 Thursday marked the deadline for ExxonMobil to undo the damage it had done to the international reputation of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA by pursuing a $12 billion freeze of PDVSA assets in early February during international arbitration in a dispute over a nationalized Orinoco Oil Belt project. -
Chavez Emboldens Venezuelan Workers with Takeover Precedent
April 15, 2008 ... Workers at another union in the region took less than 24 hours to appear on television after the announcement and urge ...