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Imperialist think tank awards anti-Chávez student leader
The U.S.-based Cato Institute has awarded Yon Goicoechea, a Venezuelan opposition student leader, the $500,000 Milton Friedman Prize for "Advancing…
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Bolivarian revolution makes education a priority
"An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction." Those were the words of Simón Rodríguez, the tutor…
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Mexicans workers fight against oil privatization
Legislators of the Broad Progressive Front, a coalition of opposition parties, stormed the podiums in both chambers of Mexico’s Congress…
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Movement to cap food prices brings down Haiti’s prime minister
Pressured by mass protests and riots against rising food prices, Haitian lawmakers dismissed Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis in hopes…
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Environmental regulation waived for border wall project
With blatant disregard for fragile ecosystems, the Bush administration is trampling environmental protection laws to complete the racist anti-immigrant border…
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Venezuela to nationalize steel, cement industries
Venezuela's vice president Ramón Carrizalez announced on April 9 that President Hugo Chávez will nationalize the Argentine-controlled steelmaker Ternium Sidor…
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Penobscot Indian Nation stands with Venezuela
An April 4 Indian Country article reports that members of the Penobscot Indian Nation in Indian Island, Maine, are opposing…
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Belarus to help Venezuela build air defense system
Belarus announced on March 25 that it will assist Venezuela in the creation of an updated anti-aircraft defense system. The…
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Immigrant rights leaders plan May 1 march
Latino Movement USA and Hermandad Mexicana Nacional organized a press conference on April 2 to announce the upcoming May 1…
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Mexican workers block country’s largest copper mine
Striking miners blocked scabs from entering the Cananea copper mines on March 30. Grupo Mexico, the largest mining company in…
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