International
Cutting cane in Colombia, workers win sweet victory
November 26, 2008Colombian sugar cane production is confined to 500,000 acres in Valle de Cauca and Cauca, departments situated in the country’s southwest. From legalized slavery on, Afro-Colombians have done most of the cutting. Recently they’ve worked 12-14...
Read moreBy bus, canoe and burro, Communists gather for Bogota meet
November 26, 2008“From the four cardinal points of the country, some by bus, others in canoes, on burros, and by airplane they came to Bogota,” Juan Cendales wrote on rebellion.org. “They got their bags ready, went over their...
Read moreA preliminary look at Venezuelas elections
November 26, 2008While many of both the foreign and domestic opposition to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez were working overtime to give him and the Bolivarian Revolution that he leads a death blow, the president's political party, the United...
Read moreFacts on Venezuela
November 24, 2008Poll Shows Rising Satisfaction with Democracy in Venezuela A new survey published on November 14, 2008 by the respected Chilean polling firm Latinobarómetro finds that Venezuela has the region's highest rate of support for democracy as...
Read moreWORLD NOTES: November 22
November 21, 2008Gaza: Collective punishment remains Aljazeera and Imemc.org reported earlier this month that an Israeli crackdown on food and fuel deliveries was intensifying Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. Israel acted in response to rocket attacks that followed Israeli air...
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