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AFL-CIO blasts CAFTA
April 15, 2005WASHINGTON (PAI) — With hearings set to start on the controversial Central American Free Trade Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a scathing critique of the trade pact, saying it would hurt Latin American workers as well as...
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Hold your ground, refuse to surrender
April 15, 2005Two leading Democratic strategists, James Carville and Stanley Greenberg, publicly took their party to task for its “just say no” approach to President Bush’s proposed privatization and benefit cuts. “To say there is no problem simply...
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World Notes
April 15, 2005Côte d’Ivoire: Peace pact signed After four days of talks in Pretoria, South Africa, mediated by that country’s president, Thabo Mbeki, Ivorian government officials and rebel forces signed a new peace agreement April 6 to end...
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Famed attorney blasts U.S. Cuba policy
April 15, 2005HOUSTON — Noted civil rights lawyer Leonard Weinglass blasted U.S. policy on Cuba at Texas Southern University here April 5, charging that the government has been “overtly or covertly attacking” the socialist island since 1960. Over...
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Latin America and the Caribbean move left
April 15, 2005News Analysis In 1913 President Woodrow Wilson, expressing his customary arrogance toward the peoples of Latin America, promised to “teach South American republics to elect good men.” The Bush administration’s attitude toward the newly elected left-leaning...
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