It seems that asked Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has made the US news for his speech at the 61st United Nations General Assembly. So after Chávez delivered his speech there has been a growing number of stories on the news that portrays President Chávez as a bitter man with “an axe to grind” with [...]
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I have been sitting here for last couple of days i’m feeling pretty nauseated and drained by feelings of powerlessness as I see our humanity slowly starting to drain away. The only problem, people don’t seem to mind that it is leaving them, causing them to harden their hearts, grow callous, becoming apathetic, afraid, not [...]
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In a CNN Espanol interview, Hugo Chávez denounces Felipe Calderón and explains why.
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El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, reiteró que en su gobierno “no reconocemos al presidente electo de México”, donde dijo que existe “una derecha desesperada que recurre a distintas artimañas”, aunque “difícilmente puede cantar victoria”.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, stated that his government [...]
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Delegates at the National Democratic Convention (CND) have formally declared Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as Mexico’s “legitimate president” which he is formally set to take office on November 20 at 3 p.m. at Constitution Square in Mexico City.
The delegates at CND also authorize López Obrador to appoint members to his cabinet, he is also [...]
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Protesters are claim another symbolic victory as President Vicente Fox changes site of the annual Mexican Independence day grito.
President Vicente Fox sidestepped another showdown with leftist firebrand Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, announcing Thursday that he won’t hold tonight’s traditional Independence Day celebrations in Mexico City’s massive central plaza.
The first symbolic victory occurred when legislators [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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