International – Page 544

Cubans assail Bush plans for takeover

August 13, 2004

HAVANA — Speaking July 18 to 300 visiting North Americans, Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba’s National Assembly, discussed the recently released report of Bush’s “Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba.” Alarcon reviewed sections of the...

Haitians confront new hardships, repression

August 13, 2004

PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of the Feb. 29 U.S.-backed coup d’etat against Haiti’s constitutionally elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian people’s living conditions and political freedoms have sharply deteriorated, eyewitnesses say. Representatives of four delegations...

Antonio Gades dies

August 1, 2004

Recognized as the greatest Spanish male dancer of his generation and an even greater choreographer, Antonio Gades died of cancer in Madrid on July 20. He was 67. Gades’ father, a building worker and communist, left...

International notes

August 1, 2004

Greece: Olympic construction takes big toll George Theodorou, head of the Greek Construction Workers’ Union, told the BBC last week that he has details of 14 workers who have died while building facilities for next month’s...

Chvez foe calls for violence, dictatorship

August 1, 2004

CARACAS – Venezuelan opposition leader and two-time president Carlos Andres Perez has made a series of statements calling for violence to remove President Hugo Chávez from office, and hinting that the Venezuelan opposition may have to...