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Venezuelan people save democracy

April 19, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

A coup by high-ranking military officers and business leaders April 12 forcibly removed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from office and installed Pedro Carmona, head of the nation’s business association, as “president.”

A new day for Venezuela

April 12, 2002

The 11th Congress of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) opened on the evening of International Woman’s Day with a speech by Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez Frias. Roberto Hernandez, of the PCV, spoke at the opening...

Letters

April 12, 2002

Giving workers a voice This year has been one of fear, uncertainty and exploitation for many Rhode Island workers. Near the end of last year, thirty-five Guatemalan dock workers at Town Dock, Inc., a fish processing...

Editorials

April 12, 2002

Zapping Medicaid beneficiaries To use a commonly accepted phrase, the 37.8 million Medicaid beneficiaries are caught between a rock and a hard place – the rock of declines in state revenue and the hard place of...

Senate debate on ANWR set

April 5, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

Legislation authorizing drilling for oil in the Alaska Natural Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) will top the Senate calendar when Congress returns from its Easter vacation on April 15. The Republican-controlled House passed its version of a national...