International
Hotel flap reveals imperialist essence of U.S. relationship to Mexico
February 14, 2006A storm is raging in Mexico over extraterritorial rights claimed by the United States. On Feb. 3, 16 Cuban oil industry officials were thrown out of the Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel in downtown Mexico City, the...
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Schafik Handal, revolutionary leader, 75
February 10, 2006Tributes from around the world flooded in to the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) last week on the death of Schafik Jorge Handal, a distinguished revolutionary leader in El Salvador. On Jan. 24,...
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WORLD NOTES
February 10, 2006India: Airport workers on strike About 23,000 employees at Mumbai and Delhi airports successfully resolved their strike that followed a decision by the authorities to turn over the airports to private companies for upgrading. All of...
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Mexico poised to move left in July election
February 10, 2006NewsAnalysis Mexican voters will elect a new president July 2. The constitution gives presidents one six-year term and forbids re-election, so the current president, Vicente Fox Quezada of the right-wing National Action Party (PAN), must go....
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Venezuelans speak their minds
February 10, 2006CARACAS, Venezuela — As this city filled up with delegates from 160 countries attending the sixth World Social Forum last month, one thing seemed to be on their minds: learning more about the revolutionary process taking...
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