BY KAREN FLETCHER
HAVANA — In a welcome interruption to the April 13 Saturday night movie, Cuban TV viewers were able to witness the dramatic uprising in Venezuela live via Venezuela's state-owned Venezolana de Television (VT).
Venezolana de
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BY LARRY DOUGLAS
On April 8, Ray Krone, became the 100th person in the United States since 1973 to be released for a crime that put him on death row.
Krone, 45, was convicted for the 1991 stabbing death of 36-year-old Arizona bartender, Kim
GLW #488 incorrectly reported that at a Brisbane public forum on April 5, Fernando Duque, Oceania representative of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, had stimated that the illegal US 42-year trade embargo had cost Cuba "US$60
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
Villawood detention centre in south-western Sydney is currently the prison of 417 asylum seekers, who are locked behind tall fences and coils of razor wire. Next to the centre are dozens of unused small brick houses, which were
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY Human capital, the level of knowledge of our people, is
the most important type of capital in Cuba. Otto Rivero Torres, Cuba's
minister for youth and the first secretary of the Union of Communist Youth,
BY RICARDO ALARCON
[The following message was sent on April 5 by Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly, to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.]
In the face of the barbaric acts unleashed in Palestine with the invasion by Israeli
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — Four drug law reform advocates handed themselves into the Darwin Local Police Office on April 12 to raise awareness of the Northern Territory Labor government's proposed "drug house" legislation.
The four activists,
Since the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, First World governments have exploited the fear that was generated to justify the diversion of government funds from programs that benefit working people and the poor to the
BY SUE BOLTON
On April 3, New Zealand Alliance party leader and deputy prime minister Jim Anderton announced that he and Alliance deputy leader Sandra Lee would not stand under the Alliance banner in New Zealand's national elections, due in
No Israeli defence of its war on the Palestinians would be complete without a reference to Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat's supposed rejection of "peace" at the July 2000 Camp David summit hosted by US President Bill Clinton. The story is
BY TAMARA PEARSON
A new representation of Africa is emerging — Africa, the innocent, hopeless, starving child with big eyes pleading for our help.
One of the main propagators of this image is World Vision, a Christian relief organisation. After
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