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Making Venezuelas economy scream
March 16, 2007Chilean counter-revolutionaries used human suffering as a tool to bring down President Salvador Allende in 1973. Something similar may be going on in Venezuela now. A Caracas reporter surveying food stores recently found shelves to be...
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China chastises U.S. over human rights
March 16, 2007China’s State Council, or cabinet, last week issued a scathing response to U.S. State Department charges that human rights in China deteriorated last year. Washington made the allegations in its annual “Country Reports on Human Rights...
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Furor over efforts to rewrite history
March 16, 2007“[My] stomach seemed to turn upside down,” said Lee Yong-soo. “I remember crawling towards the bathroom, throwing up as I went along, when I was grabbed by a man and dragged into a cabin. I tried...
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Quito gathering condemns U.S. military bases
March 16, 2007The Bush administration took two big hits this month in Latin America. Not only did demonstrations dog the president across five nations, but the U.S. military, claiming 95 percent of the world’s foreign bases, was in...
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Women key to advances in Congress
March 16, 2007In the first 11 weeks of the 110th Congress, several pieces of progressive legislation, including the Employee Free Choice Act and an increase in the minimum wage, have passed in the House. With the new Democratic...
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