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  • WORLDNOTES

    WORLDNOTES

    March 17, 2006

    Ecuador: Warning strike Ecuador declared a state of emergency in three Amazonian oil provinces last week as 4,000 oil workers participated in a two-day “warning strike” in a dispute over back pay totaling $51 million. The...

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  • UN agency retreats on plan for Haitian police

    UN agency retreats on plan for Haitian police

    March 17, 2006

    The United Nations mission in Haiti has decided to postpone a tentative agreement that would have placed the Haitian National Police under direct UN control. The move, announced on March 10, came in the wake of...

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  • Israel storms Jericho jail

    Israel storms Jericho jail

    March 17, 2006

    Israeli troops using tanks, helicopters and bulldozers pounded a Palestinian-run prison in the West Bank town of Jericho March 14 to seize Ahmed Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and five...

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  • Activists form Venezuela solidarity network

    Activists form Venezuela solidarity network

    March 17, 2006

    WASHINGTON — Greeting almost 500 people at a national Venezuela solidarity conference held here March 4, Venezuelan Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez set a tone for new beginnings. “Hugo Chávez is not an accident,” he said. “What you...

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  • Secessionists threaten Venezuelas unity

    Secessionists threaten Venezuelas unity

    March 17, 2006

    “It’s new evidence for a destabilization plan that North American imperialism, through the fascist government of George W. Bush, is carrying out in our country to torpedo and sabotage the revolutionary process.” Oscar Figuera, general secretary...

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