Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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World
Venezuelan right wing creates false crisis on Chavez inauguration
January 8, 2013The stakes in this situation are high not only for Venezuela but for the entire Latin American and Caribbean area.
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World
Alan Gross and the Cuban Five: Why not exchange holiday gifts?
December 21, 2012Although the U.S. government has been saying "no exchange," Mr. and Mrs. Gross are not, because it is not in their interests to shut off that possibility.
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World
Left makes big advances in Venezuela regional elections
December 21, 2012This will allow the PSUV leadership to advance projects for local mass democratic participation in building the nation.
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Opinion
Is Syria situation spinning out of control?
December 20, 2012The news from Syria is not good.
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World
President Chavez of Venezuela to Cuba for cancer treatment
December 11, 2012For the fourth time in a year and a half, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left for Cuba on Sunday for cancer treatment.
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World
UN vote on Palestine shakes things up
December 6, 2012Last week's vote in the UN's General Assembly, which afforded "nonmember observer state" status to Palestine, and the Israeli government's response, has created controversy.
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World
UN General Assembly votes to give Palestine enhanced status
November 30, 2012This upgrades Palestine's status from mere "observer" and, without making it a full voting member of the U.N., explicitly recognizes it as a state.
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World
Huge Argentina human rights trial begins
November 29, 2012On Wednesday, the trial of no less than 68 former military and civilian officials of the 1976-1983 Argentine military dictatorship began in Buenos Aires.
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