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SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) – Cuban authorities have told the Brazilian government that Cuban leader Fidel Castro has a malignant stomach tumor and may be unable to return to full power, a Brazilian newspaper reported.
Folha de Sao Paulo said Brazilian officials had been told that Castro’s illness marked the start of an irreversible transfer of power on the Communist-ruled island.
Start of an irreversible transfer of power.
Folha said Cuban authorities informed Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and members of the ruling Workers’ Party about the malignant stomach tumor this week. His condition was worse than has been publicly admitted, according to Folha.
“It looks like we will lose our friend,” it quoted Lula as telling an aide. It gave no source but the report was written by a respected journalist.
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So sad to see him ill. Those who are jumping of joy, better strat understanding how it was before the revolution, and how much it has done for dispossesed there. It might change a little in the economic area, but that’s it.
The Minister of foreign relations, Felipe Pérez Roque,(41) appears to be the strongest candidate share power
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How is the news coverage in Argentina?
Estela de Carlotto, president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza, rejoiced at Simon’s 25-year sentence, saying, “this is a big day on the path for all the trials” in the future.
Poblete’s stepbrother, Fernando Navarro, told reporters, “I can’t express my joy.”
The 2005 overturning of amnesty laws has raised the possibility that scores of former officers could be called back to testify or eventually face prosecution.
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Coverage is AWESOME. Generaly you can find at lest one article in a newspaper regarding the trials or the military. However sometimes you can find anywhere from four to ten articles.
Julio Simon was just sentenced in only one of 64 cases. He will spend the rest of his life in jail, in a common prision.
Next one to watch is chief of police Echecolatz, who will appear before the courts in September.
The one I want to seegoing to hell is Alfredo Astiz, the responsible of killing Hagelin Dagmar, a 15 year old Danish girl who he paralized with a shot in the back and wa seen returning from the rape parties the Generals would throw for themselves. He also killed the two french nuns Dumont and Duquet.
We are in a roll now 🙂
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URUCENA (BBC News) Aug. 4 — Speaking at a ceremony in central Bolivia, President Evo Morales has urged Congress to back his plan for an “agrarian revolution” to correct a “historical injustice”.
Mr Morales arrived at the ceremony on a tractor, leading a convoy of 50 Venezuelan-made tractors which were distributed to agricultural workers.
"Unequal land distribution is atthe root of Bolivia's problems."
Mr Morales’s government has handed out a substantial area of state-owned land already, but is seeking the right to expropriate unproductive private land. At the ceremony – attended by some 20,000 supporters – he also handed out some 2,300 new land titles.
The total area of land handed out on this occasion was not reported, but the government is said to have distributed 24,800 sq km (9,600 sq miles) since the agrarian reform programme started in June.
However these plans have been fiercely opposed by landowners.
‘Land politics’
Mr Morales made his remarks during the ceremony in Urucena, a town in the central department of Cochabamba, where in 1953 the first agrarian reform was launched in Bolivia.
There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble.
It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America.
Virtually anyone paying attention to events in Venezuela and Nicaragua in the north to Peru and Bolivia further south, plus in different ways Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, comes to the same conclusion: there is a wave of profound anti-American feeling stretching from the Texas border to the Antarctic.
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Thats a good thing. we can take back our front yard. (US back yard actually)
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AMSTERDAM — Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot visited Caracas in a bid to improve relations between the Netherlands and Venezuela. Bot met with Venezuelan Vice President Vincente Rangel and Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez. He was to meet with President Hugo Chavez later in the day.
Venezuela and Netherlands AntillesFirstly, he made clear the islands of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba remain Dutch and he expected Venezuela to respect the integrity of the Antilles.
The government in The Hague is currently in negotiations with the five islands of the Antilles about a new constitutional arrangement that will lead to dissolution of the link between the islands.
Dutch Defence Minster Henk Kamp angered Caracas earlier this year by branding Chavez as a populist who had designs on the Antillean islands off the coast. [A Neocon Dream – Oui]
Bot’s also assured Chavez that he need not fear the Antilles might be used by the US as a “springboard” for hostile actions against his government. Joint Caribbean Lion 2006
Minister Bot Rejects U.S. Navy dock in harbor of Antilles
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