Venezuela鈥檚 foreign minister, Nicolas Maduro, has dismissed the authenticity of documents that the Colombian government claims were found in a computer that belonged to Raul Reyes, a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
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As part of a global day of action in solidarity with Tibetan protesters, 65 actions took place across Australia on March 31.
On April 2, after much dialogue with the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner government, agricultural producers suspended for 30 days a strike that began on March 11.
The Venezuelan national oil company PDVSA has closed deals with several European cities to deliver cheap fuel to socially deprived areas, Lenin Medina of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry told a European Left conference in Paris on March 29. The
Canterbury-Bankstown public school teachers will demonstrate outside Premier Morris Iemma鈥檚 Lakemba office on April 10 to express their outrage at the state Labor government鈥檚 refusal to re-negotiate a state-wide schools staffing agreement.
Damning the Flood: Haiti, Aristide & the Politics
of Containment
By Peter Hallward
Verso, 2008
442p, US$29.95
By Peter Hallward
Verso, 2008
442p, US$29.95
Journalists, communications specialists and other participants in a Caracas conference during the March 29-30 weekend demanded that political leaders in the region put the issue of 鈥渕edia terrorism鈥 on the agenda of all international forums and meetings in which they participate.
At least 100 Indigenous people were arrested in Alice Springs during 鈥渕ilitary-style鈥 police raids on the evening of April 3, according to an April 4 media release issued jointly by Vince Forrester, an elder of the Mutitjulu community at the base of Uluru, Greg Eatock from the Sydney-based Aboriginal Rights Coalition and Marlene Hodder from the Alice-based Intervention Rollback Working Group.
Richistan, A Journey through the 21st Century Wealth Boom & the Lives of the New Rich
By Robert Frank
Piatkus, 2007
263 pp.
By Robert Frank
Piatkus, 2007
263 pp.
Venezuela will not be the same after the formation of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) 鈥 whose founding congress concluded in March. Nor will Latin America.
Printing company SEP Print sacked its work force without notice after the business was put into receivership on March 20. Sixty-five workers occupied the company鈥檚 factory in south-eastern Melbourne over Easter in an attempt to secure entitlements the company owes them that are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
According to an April 2 AFP article, Amnesty International have reported that at least 40 protesters in Burma, including seven Buddhist monks, have been jailed after secret trials over last year's pro-democracy marches. Officially, more than 3000
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