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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 4, 2011

  It's difficult to see, however, how legalizing marijuana, ecstasy or other so-called soft drugs would do much to either help or hinder the problems in Latin America, as most of the violence is related to harder drugs

To legalize or not to legalize, that is the question     By David Roberts   Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos' proposal, repeated recently, to re-open the age-old debate on the legalization of drugs is a welcome step forward....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 9, 2011

  Death of a terrorist: Seismic shift or another one bites the dust?

By David Roberts   We've become quite accustomed to seeing news stories about how yet another "leading" terrorist who we've never heard of has been killed by normally US security forces in a clandestine operation, often in the Indian subcontinent...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 26, 2011

  Venezuela and Colombia - The winds of war?

By Rebecca Theodore:   Behold! The tyrant of the Andes -- Hugo Chavez. Staring into the mirror of mirrors, he laments on his misery because the natural order within him is disturbed. A soul dominated by mad lust and egoism. Oppressed by his own fanatic and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 17, 2010

  The UN, Impunity and War

Reflections of Fidel RESOLUTION 1929 of the United Nations Security Council on June 9, 2010 sealed the fate of imperialism. I don’t know how many people noticed that, among other absurdities, the secretary general of that institution, Ban Ki-moon, fulfilling orders from above, made...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 10, 2010

  The Big Lie: Venezuela and Labor

By Daniel Kovalik: The biggest obstacle to the attempt first by the Bush Administration, and now by the Obama Administration, to achieve passage of the long-stalled Free Trade Agreement with Colombia is that country’s long-standing shameful reality as “the most dangerous country in...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 24, 2010

  U.S. Bases in Colombia Rattle the Region

By Benjamin Dangle, The Progressive: On the shores of the Magdalena River, in a lush green valley dotted with cattle ranches and farms, sits the Palanquero military base, an outpost equipped with Colombia’s longest runway, housing for 2,000 troops, a theater, a supermarket, and a casino....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 9, 2010

  Angry Cuba demands removal from US terrorism list

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cuba angrily rejected on Friday US accusations that it supports terrorist groups and demanded its removal from a US list of "state sponsors of terrorism." In the communist-led island's latest public criticism of the Obama administration, Cuba's government issued a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 10, 2009

  The annexation of Colombia to the United States

Reflections of Fidel ANY person who is even moderately well-informed can immediately see that the sugar-coated "Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States," signed on October 30 and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 22, 2009

  The shameful history of the OAS (Part 1)

• Emergence and development of the Organization of American States • Its role in the region • Inter-American complicity in U.S. aggression against the Cuban people • Raul Roa’s battle for dignity • The OAS must be dismantled as the only liberating option for today • Cuba...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 7, 2008

  The true story and the challenge of the Cuban journalists

Reflections of Fidel: SEVEN days ago I wrote about one of the great men in history: Salvador Allende, a man the world remembered with deep emotion and respect on his first centennial. However, no one quivered or even recalled the date of October 24, 1891, when the Dominican despot Rafael...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 14, 2008

  USAID replaces corrupt Franco with ex-CANF capo

BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD—Granma International staff writer— • IN order to "solve" the systematic fraud uncovered in its accounts by a General Accountability Office (GAO) investigation a few months back, the USAID has replaced the corrupt official Adolfo Franco with none other than José...... [view]

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