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Venezuelan Diamonds Under the Microscope
October 29, 2007 ... in setting up the Kimberley Process, an agreement of 47 governments, the international diamond industry and civil ... and buyers to prohibit imports that are not certified. The 47 KP participants, including the European Union, make up ... -
Constitutional reforms in Venezuela
October 26, 2007 ... October 7, some 9,020 public events – over 192 a day for 47 days – were held throughout the country to provide ... took over 80,000 phone calls – over 1,700 a day for 47 days – in which Venezuelan citizens were able to offer ... reform of Article 90 would decrease the workweek from 44 hours to 36 hours. The proposed reform of Article 98 would ... -
Our 21st Century Zimmerwald
October 16, 2007 ... October 13 meeting with Fidel Castro lasted for over four hours. On Alo Presidente the next day he played a ten-minute ... always dynamic and participatory. Throughout the five hours he often invited compas (brothers and/or sisters) in ... -
Venezuela’s Debt to Cuba
October 29, 2007 ... doctors, nurses, ophthalmologists and dentists, 24 hours a day, dispersed throughout the entire the territory ... -
Venezuela's Foreign Minister on Democracy Now!
October 4, 2007 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez didn't come to the United Nations this week for the annual General Assembly meeting. Instead, Venezuela's foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro Moros, traveled to New York, where he addressed the body. In a U.S. national broadcast exclusive, Foreign Minister Maduro Moros joined Democracy Now to talk about Venezuela's ties with Iran, oil prices, biofuels and his message to the United Nations this year. -
Where Are We [The Opposition], Really?
October 9, 2007 ... of distortions came to an explosive head in the wee hours of the morning of August 16th, 2004, when the Recall ... that they could lose fairly. Hundreds and hundreds of hours of political propaganda - much of it mascarading as ... -
“Crisis in the Americas” – A Page Out of Washington’s Propaganda Playbook on Venezuela
October 29, 2007 The American Security Council Foundation just released a "documentary" which paints Venezuela's democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez as a maniacal dictator attempting to take over the Western Hemisphere. The documentary may be new, but the spin is a page out of Washington's decades-old propaganda playbook. -
The Bank of the South: An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance
October 29, 2007 Hugo Chavez's vision is to liberate the region's countries from IMF, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank (IBD) control that condemn millions to poverty through their lending practices. Helped by windfall oil profits, his government is already doing it with an unprecedented commitment to provide financial aid and below-market priced oil to regional and other countries. -
Venezuela: Building Popular Power through Communal Councils
October 10, 2007 ... employers will let employees off from work for a couple of hours a week if they participate in a communal council. This ...