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Joe Anybody Latin America Solidarity
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
A history of GENOCIDE in South America ever since 1492
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Now Playing: 12 OCTOBER 1492 GENOCIDE in Latin America
Topic: South America
Added by: Yakelin Rodríguez 12 OCTOBER 1492 GENOCIDE Sergio Sosa In this beloved Patria Grande, were punished (and we're still) of all forms of genocide listed in the dictionary and would also add the more modern, such as the cultural, commercial genocide... etc. But go early, because like all event has a beginning, but unfortunately we do not know if you end... The first genocide which recognizes history is the Spanish conquest. And indeed was very violent, perverse and the after-effects still remain today. Not only by the cold statistics that say that at least 150 years disappeared from the face of the earth around 130 million human beings... What were the reasons more recognized by the invading forces to similar atrocity?... It can be synthesized as well: wealth, power, and domination. Let us remember that Spain, back in the 13th century was one of the world's richest nations. And their eagerness to growth had no limits. To achieve "seduce" mariners, the subsidiaries of navigation (Royal Court) as for example: "The ocean sea", used the cheating more strangers and tempting...: Which reach the "new world" were told that they would be owners of half of what picture bring there and were given carte blanche including to transport to Spain native place which in turn would be purchased as slaves by "the motherland".... The only condition that colonists should meet, was the conversion to Catholicism of the native found. This should fulfil to the letter, even coast of death of those who oppose.... the hand of God would be his "ally". With these "facilities" postulated for hikers, all kinds of people, even those who did not have a minor idea than they were 3 month navigation. Such is the case of Pizarro, an entrepreneur, the pig farming and that of ships, he only knew that they floated.
The massacre perpetrated Spaniards was fierce, Pizarro in Peru and Cortés in Mexico were the more renowned. But there was more... many more. Entire civilizations disappeared: Incas, Aztec, Mayan, ChiMu... But what they achieved their goal?, what is wealth?.... the answer is: not. Only harboring the hope, year after year that someday it would be, but wasn't. The bad "Indian" competitions that were culturally centuries developed in scientific and strategic knowledge to see irremediably lost their territories were concealing greater wealth in places completely inhospitable and away from the small mink invaders. There are even cities like Machu Picchu that is virtually intact today.
Undoubtedly the genocide carried out by the Spanish conquest, was greater criminal attack in the history of mankind globally. Even much greater of Hitler in Germany, wars in Middle East, etc.
Even surpassing in quantity to the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.... but do that then spent in our continent?
During the 500 years after the Spanish invasion, countries formed, had a very important aspect of "mini-genocidios", if I may this expression amount. From the North to southern South America were countless acts of barbarism almost without apparent reason... But the reasons were returning to be the same... the desire of wealth and power greatly. .Tal is the case of JOSE TOMAS BOVES in Venezuela: On 18 September 1782 was born in Oviedo, province of Asturias, the royalist Chief José Tomás Boves, infamous for his cruelty during the independence war. Indeed Boves enjoyed with the grief, recreated in the cruellest orders and presenciaba Patriots, who was dancing 'Piquirico' dying executions. Boves died in the battle of Urica, in 1814, and with him died the second Republic. Truly was a messianic killer responded (according to him) under the orders of the King of Spain. Although never, no Spanish diplomat and much less the same King, gave real information that ésto was real. Their massacres were excessive and directed against anyone who knew "read or write". Finally, and after not only have been proclaimed "King of Venezuela" was defeated and killed in 1814... The number of deaths caused his denostable attitude amounts to 178,000 individuals... No doubt it was one of the larger "mini-genocidios" that have records. As my intention is not overwhelmed with information, will go through in each installment, each of these attacks that it could almost brand them fundamentalist and covered in the madness that in the aforementioned desire for wealth and power. In a paragraph from one of the main newspapers of the "first world", to be more precise of "NATIONAL TIMES" (Montreal-Canadá), extraje this note synthesized says: ".. .the disembarkation of Columbus in 1492, was the first attack the environment suffered the current American territory"... I was surprised a lot this writing because it comes from a country framing within select elite "developed" countries. Scratching in other media, took me surprise that almost any Latin country celebrated on October 12, giving holiday fringes. I deeply believe that this should be a day of reflection, or mourning. We must not forget the savage massacre pergeñada by the 14th century Spanish Empire. The more than 130 million human beings who died deserve remember forever. From his quiet silence are asking us to never let another invasion of such magnitude. To be quite clear that I do not intend with these writings do a reactionary pamphlet that nothing would serve 513 years later. I feel well if what I write so that our youth take clear notion of what became really, but not read the history of the "discovery", as a mere done more. Because even in our days are being bullied by others and subtle genocide... Perhaps less bloody but aberrant and denigrables such as those of 1492. Such is the case of the criminal blockade exercised by us. We look not only back to see the truth, also must look at the present and future. In the distant future great Latin American country, perhaps as many of its brightest visionaries saw: A free world.
Original Spanish Version Is Copied & Posted Below
Agregado por: Yakelin Rodríguez GENOCIDIO DEL 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 1492 Sergio Sosa En esta querida Patria Grande, fuimos castigados (y lo somos aún) de todas las formas de genocidio citadas en el diccionario y también habría que agregar las mas modernas, como el genocidio cultural, comercial...etc. Pero vayamos a los comienzos, porque como todo evento, tiene un principio, pero lamentablemente no sabemos si tendrá final... El primer genocidio que reconoce la historia es el de la conquista española. Y en verdad fue muy violento, perverso y las secuelas aún permanecen hoy en día. No sólo por las frías estadísticas que dicen que en menos de 150 años desaparecieron de la faz de la tierra cerca de 130 millones de seres humanos... ¿Cuáles fueron los motivos mas reconocidos por las fuerzas invasoras para semejante atrocidad?... Se los puede sintetizar así: Riqueza, poder, y dominación. Recordemos que España, allá por el siglo XIII era una de las más ricas naciones del mundo. Y su afán de crecimiento no tenía límites. Para lograr "seducir" a los marinos, las empresas de navegación (dependientes de la corte real) como por ejemplo: “LA MAR OCEANO”, utilizaron los engaños mas extraños y tentadores...: A los que llegaran al "nuevo mundo" se les dijo que serían dueños de la mitad de lo que lograsen traer de allí y se les dio carta blanca inclusive para transportar a España nativos del lugar que a su vez serían comprados como esclavos por "la madre patria".... La única condición que los colonizadores deberían cumplir, era la conversión al catolicismo de cuanto nativo encontrasen. Esto debía cumplirse al pie de la letra, incluso a costa de muerte de los que se opusieran....La mano de Dios sería su "aliada". Con esas "facilidades " se postularon para las travesías, todo tipo de personas, incluso los que no tenían la menor idea de lo que eran 3 meses de navegación. Tal es el caso de Pizarro, un empresario dedicado a la cria de cerdos y que de barcos, sólo sabía que flotaban.
La matanza que perpetraron los españoles fue feroz, Pizarro en Perú y Cortés en México fueron los mas renombrados. Pero hubo mas...muchos mas. Civilizaciones enteras desaparecieron: Mayas, Incas, Aztecas; Chimúes... Pero, ¿lograron ellos su principal objetivo?, ¿o sea la riqueza?....La respuesta es: NO. Sólo abrigaban la esperanza, año tras año de que algún día la encontrarían, pero no fue así. Los mal llamados "indios" que culturalmente estaban siglos adelantados en conocimiento científico y estratégico, al ver que irremediablemente perderían sus territorios, fueron ocultando las mayores riquezas en lugares completamente inhóspitos y alejados de la pequeña visón de los invasores. Incluso hay ciudades como Macchu Pichu que prácticamente está intacta hoy en día.
Sin dudas el genocidio efectuado por la conquista española, fue el mayor atentado criminal en toda la historia de la humanidad a nivel mundial. Incluso mucho mayor al De Hitler en Alemania, al de las guerras en medio oriente, etc.
Hasta superando en cantidad al horror de Hiroshima y Nagasaki....Pero ¿que pasó luego en nuestro continente?
Durante los 500 años posteriores a la invasión española, los diferentes países formados, tuvieron una cantidad muy importante de "mini-genocidios", si se me permite esta expresión. Desde el norte hasta el sur de Sudamérica fueron incontables los hechos de barbarie casi sin razón aparente... Pero los motivos volvían a ser los mismos...El afán de riqueza y de poder en grado sumo. .Tal es el caso de JOSE TOMAS BOVES en Venezuela: El 18 de septiembre de 1782 nace en Oviedo, provincia de Asturias, el jefe realista José Tomás Boves, tristemente célebre por sus crueldades durante la guerra independentista. Lo cierto es que Boves gozaba con el dolor ajeno, se recreaba en las órdenes más crueles y presenciaba las ejecuciones de patriotas, a quienes hacía bailar el «Piquirico» antes de morir. Boves murió en la batalla de Urica, en 1814, y con él murió la Segunda República. En verdad era un asesino mesiánico que respondía (según él) a las órdenes del Rey de España. Aunque nunca, ningún diplomático español y mucho menos el Rey mismo, dieron información verdadera de que ésto fuera real. Sus matanzas fueron desmedidas y dirigidas contra todo aquel que supiera "leer o escribir". Por fin, y después de no sólo haberse proclamado "Rey de Venezuela" fue derrotado y muerto en 1814... La cantidad de muertos que provocó su denostable actitud asciende a 178.000 personas... Sin lugar a dudas fue éste uno de los más grandes "mini-genocidios" del que se tienen registros. Como mi intención no es abrumar con información, iré recorriendo en cada entrega, cada uno de estos atentados que casi podría tildarlos de fundamentalistas y amparados más en la locura que en el citado afán de riqueza y poder. En un párrafo extraído de uno de los principales periódicos del "primer mundo", para ser mas preciso del "NATIONAL TIMES" (Montreal-Canadá), extraje esta nota, que sintetizada dice: ”...El desembarco de Colón en 1492, fue el primer atentado al medio ambiente que sufrió el actual territorio americano"... Me sorprendió mucho este escrito ya que procede de un país enmarcado dentro de la selecta élite de los países "desarrollados". Hurgando en otros medios de prensa, me llevo la sorpresa que casi en ningún país latino se festeja el 12 de octubre, dándole ribetes de día feriado. Creo profundamente, que éste debiera ser un día de reflexión, o de luto. No debemos olvidar la salvaje matanza pergeñada por el imperio de español del siglo XIV. Los más de 130 millones de seres humanos que murieron merecen que se los recuerde por siempre. Ellos desde su callado silencio nos piden que nunca permitamos otro avasallamiento de tal magnitud. Que quede bien claro que no pretendo con estos escritos hacer un panfleto reaccionario que de nada serviría 513 años después. Me sentiría bien si lo que escribo sirve para que nuestra juventud tome noción clara de lo que pasó en verdad, y no lean la historia del "descubrimiento", como un mero hecho más. Porque aun en nuestros días estamos siendo avasallados por otros y muy sutiles genocidios... Quizá menos sangrientos pero aberrantes y denigrables como aquéllos de 1492. Tal es el caso del criminal bloqueo a Cuba ejercido por EEUU. No miremos sólo atrás para ver la verdad, también debemos mirar el presente y el futuro. Y tal vez, en ese futuro lejano este gran país latinoamericano, sea como muchos de sus más brillantes visionarios lo vieron: Un mundo LIBRE.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 9:15 AM
Monday, 25 January 2010
Haiti Quake - Chavez - says it was man made ...hmmmm?
Mood:
 quizzical
Now Playing: What really happened - was it a weapon or was it a quake?
Topic: Venezuela News
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 9:12 PM
Fox News Should Learn From This
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Now Playing: Fox News report on RCTV going off air
Topic: Venezuela News
Anti-Chavez TV Channel Removed From CableSunday, January 24, 2010
 AP/Miraflores Press Office Nov. 8: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves to supporters in Acarigua, Venezuela. CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan cable television providers stopped transmitting a channel critical of President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, after the government cited incompliance with new regulations requiring the socialist leader's speeches be televised on cable. Radio Caracas Television, an anti-Chavez channel known as RCTV that switched to cable in 2007 after the government refused to renew its over-the-air license, disappeared from the airwaves shortly after midnight. RCTV was dropped just hours after Diosdado Cabello, director of Venezuela's state-run telecommunications agency, said several local channels carried by cable television have breached broadcasting laws and should be removed from the airwaves. Cabello warned cable operations on Saturday evening that they could find themselves in jeopardy if they keep showing those channels. "They must comply with the law, and they cannot have a single channel that violates Venezuelan laws as part of their programming," he said. Several channels have not shown Chavez's televised speeches — a requirement under new regulations approved last month by the telecommunications agency, Cabello said. RCTV did not broadcast a speech by the president to his political supporters during a rally early on Saturday. The station's removal from cable and satellite television prompted a cacophony of protests in Caracas neighborhoods as Chavez opponents leaned out apartment windows to bang on pots and pans. Cabello's agency notified RCTV and 23 other local cable television channels on Thursday that they must carry mandatory government programming, including Chavez's frequent and long speeches. Cabello said Saturday that other violations include failing to warn viewers of sexual and violent content as well as broadcasting more than two hours of soap operas during the afternoon, which should be mostly dedicated to children programming. He did not specify which TV channels have purportedly violated the law, but RCTV said it was the target. It accused the agency of pressuring cable providers to drop channels that are critical of the government. The agency "doesn't have any authority to give the cable service providers this order," RCTV said in a statement. "The government is inappropriately pressuring them to make decisions beyond their responsibilities." In denying RCTV a renewal of its over-the-air broadcast license, Chavez accused the station of plotting against his government and supporting a failed 2002 coup. In August, Chavez's government forced 32 radio stations and two small TV stations off the air, saying some owners had failed to renew their broadcast licenses while other licenses were no longer valid because they had been granted long ago to owners who are now dead. Officials said they planned to take more stations off the air. Government figures say that as of 2008 about 37 percent of Venezuelan homes received cable television. But some private companies say that according to their research, about six out of every 10 households have subscription television service.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 8:50 PM
Updated: Monday, 25 January 2010 8:51 PM
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Cascadia to Caracas Report Back at Red n Black
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Now Playing: Sunday evening with pdxVenezuela at he Red n Black Cafe at 7 PM
Topic: Venezuela Solidarity
Hi Folks Check this out, its a first hand Report Back from Caracas 1.24.10 
See You there more information is on http://www.pdxvenezuela.org/
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 1:51 PM
Updated: Saturday, 23 January 2010 1:54 PM
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Cindy Sheehan interviews Eva Golinger on Jan 10 2010
Now Playing: Year of Resistance - Eva Golinger & Cindy Sheehan
http://cindysheehanssoapbox.com/archivesPage.html Year of Resistance - January 10, 2010 (SOAPBOX #46) - Cindy issues it in, welcoming renowned Attorney and Writer Eva Golinger. Eva is a Venezuelan-American attorney from New York, living in Caracas, Venezuela. If you can spare the time, you might want to take a look at her blog: "Postcards from the Revolution." Wow! Does she have a spotlight to throw on the secret scurrying of the CIA in Venezuela, or what? (Sort of like cockroaches, they desperately want to escape that light!) This is yet another great Soapbox! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Cindy Sheehan interviews Eva Golinger
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Now Playing: Found this on Cindy Sheehans soapbox blog
Topic: Venezuela Solidarity
Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox at: www.CindySheehansSoapbox.com  It's our Anniversary!
Against all odds and many obstacles we have been able to stay on the air and deliver high quality shows! With Twenty-Ten being the YEAR OF RESISTANCE, the Soapbox will become an integral part of true change to benefit WE THE PEOPLE for once! Thank you for listening and supporting your Soapbox! _________________________ TODAY'S SHOW There has been disturbing news coming out of South America: The apparent U.S. support of the Honduran coup; Colombia signing a pact with the U.S. that will enable the U.S. to construct military bases there and the U.S. drone flights and fighter-plane flights over Venezuelan airspace. We all know that Vz sits on some of the largest oil reserves in the world and President Chavez has refused to privatize the industry and hand over his people's natural resources to Standard Oil or Exxon--so that has made him a marked man in the eyes of the U.S. Robber Class. Today on the Soapbox, Venezuelan attorney and bestselling author (The Chavez Code), Eva Golinger dispels the Myths that surround President Chavez that have been instigated by our government and media. Eva's blog is: Postcards from the Revolution Please tune-in, it is a fascinating interview! To further foster understanding between our countries, The Soapbox is arranging an interview in Venezuela with President Chavez and a mini-documentary about the successes and challenges of Venezuela's "Bolivaran Revolution." We are VERY excited about this important evolution in The Soapbox's relevance and influence! The 2nd part of today's show is an interview that Cindy did with Scott Horton of Anti-War Radio where she talks about Peace of the Action and the dire need for direct action. If you like the Soapbox, please DONATE TO KEEP US ON THE AIR!
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Posted by Joe Anybody
at 6:08 PM
Updated: Sunday, 17 January 2010 6:11 PM
My new FaceBook friend is Hugo Chavez
Mood:
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Now Playing: FB friendships across the borders
Topic: Venezuela Solidarity
I have anew Face Book Friend  
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 7:28 AM
Saturday, 16 January 2010
PCASC Newsletter is out for January 2010
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Now Playing: Portland Oregon - Solidarity Group PCASC Newsletter 1-2010
Topic: Organizing-Activism-Info
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| | | "We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy-which is part natural, part unnatural-must,under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations. This is not conspiracy theory.
They have done it again and again."
"This is a disaster of historic proportions”. - U.S. Government official Janet Napolitano More than 50,000 people killed, the number possibly closer to 100,000 "50 percent of buildings in the worst-hit areas damaged or destroyed." - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Many of the capital's 3 million people without access to food, water, shelter and electricity Dump trucks are carrying loads of unidentified bodies and dumping them in unmarked mass graves
-Above data from Rights Action release The humanitarian situation in Haiti following the devastating earth quake is dire. While with good reason the focus of the international community is on supporting disaster relief, it is important to maintain a critical eye on the allocation of corporate, governmental, and ngo funds and resources. US troops are moving to the island next week (see the Yanks are Coming) and will augment the presence of the Brazilian troops on a UN "peace keeping" mission. Will the natural disaster be used as an excuse to further entrench the military occupation of Haiti? *Action: Ask Obama what his intentions are in Haiti. Let him know you oppose further militarization of the island.
Options for Giving: 2. Labor Notes critique the corporate PR spin and for a look at how labor is rallying for Hait: Haiti: Give Here - PARTNERS IN HEALTH: http://www.pih.org/home.html. Mission: To provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. Partners In Health (PIH) works to bring modern medical care to poor communities in Haiti and 8 other countries around the world. The work of PIH has three goals: to care for our patients, to alleviate the root causes of disease in their communities, and to share lessons learned around the world.
- The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is asking for support for a community-based organization, Zanmi Lasante. You can find more information and where to donate at the CIW's site.
- GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL has set up an Earthquake Relief Fund. Grassroots International works to create a just and sustainable world by building alliances with progressive movements. GI's primary focus is on land, water and food as human rights and nourishing the political struggle necessary to achieve these rights.
- To donate to a Haitian radical workers' organization, Batay Ouvriye, Miami Autonomy is collecting funds via paypal. Or mail checks written to Miami Workers Center with a note “for: MAS/BO”
Miami Workers Center
6127 Northwest 7th Avenue
Miami, FL 33127-1111
News and Analysis: Focus on Haiti While the 7.0 earthquake is the immediate cause of Haiti’s’ disaster, the main cause of death and despair are the historic conditions of poverty, exploitation, injustice and vulnerability of a majority of Haiti’s 9,000,000 people. These historic conditions of poverty, exploitation and vulnerability are caused by internal factors, and more importantly by foreign military, economic and political interventions, mainly by the United States, France and Canada. While the short-term focus continues to be on search and rescue, search and body recovery, and on providing emergency support (food, water, shelter, medical attention to the injured, and disease prevention), critical attention must turn to openly and honestly debate the underlying historic national and international causes of Haiti’s endemic misery and injustice, so that a different and just Haiti can be built and constructed. (above summary and statement by Rights Action)
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Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Saturday, 16 January 2010 4:10 PM
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
"Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots"
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Now Playing: A new book and links to the FB group
Topic: Venezuela Solidarity
Description:"Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots" is a collection of interviews with activists and participants from across Venezuela’s social movements. "Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots" is a collection of interviews with activists and participants from across Venezuela’s social movements. From community media to land reform; cooperatives to communal councils, from the labor movement to the Afro-Venezuelan network, "Venezuela Speaks!" sheds light on the complex realities within the Bolivarian Revolution. These interviews offer a compelling oral history of Venezuela's democratic revolution, from the bottom up. By co-authors Carlos Martinez, Michael Fox, and JoJo Farrell. For more information, please visit www.venezuelaspeaks.com or the PM Press website: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=169 FaceBook Link: http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com&init=pr#/group.php?gid=243253003620
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 8:05 PM
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Indigenous People to Cavez
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Now Playing: disappointed ? indy media article
Topic: CHAVEZ
US AND WE, legitimate AUTHORITIES INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, WE GO TO THE PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ, TO DEMAND TO APPLY THE 3R TO POLICIES THAT WILL ENSURE OUR TERRITORIAL RIGHTS (translated by using Babylon.com)
We have found indigenous brothers and sisters not in a forum, or a conference, but in a conversation that we have achieved with our own resources, on its own initiative of the warlords and cacicas indigenous people who we are here, that we auto-invite to take liberty to discuss our issues, without pressure. We are not here with bows and arrows, come looking for a communication of truth. Not we will continue silent the actions of officials and staff members who sabotaged the revolutionary process, delaying the demarcation and other claims of the indigenous peoples and communities. Us and we are wise and wise.
Us and we are the roots of Venezuela, we are the peoples. We Want a Venezuela to build, you know what the indigenous knows. Live Decently happy with you. We want to help strengthen indigenous peoples and their relationship with the State. We do not want conflicts, we want to be happy, we want peace, we want to keep the harmony with nature (air, water, land) for the benefit of all. The indigenous people know care of nature. We want our land, we want to maintain our culture, a life, a healthy environment. We Want respect for the indigenous world.
They always say that indigenous people did not know how to work, and who cares the flora and the environment us. The environment us and we, that is our lung, hence collect our food and medicine. Contribute to the reproduce of fish, the environment, there is the culture in our communities. We live by hunting and gathering, therefore require large areas of land, that's why we want our titles.
We are in the struggle for the demarcation because they are still has not been solved nothing. We continue with this dream and we are not yet sleeping peacefully; have created many commissions and us and we thought we delivered reports to our brother Chavez and it is not true. We delivered some titles with which we try to trick. We sleeping evil yet with this cheating because there remains the danger of the landowners-farmers-landowners-miners-loggers, recognized as third . They do we can kill but pay people to which we matte and so our sons and daughters nor may sleep peacefully.
Us and we are gold, iron, silver, flora and fauna, is not that we are there, is that we exist. We are the guardians of the territories because born there, grew there and there, we buried there; whites that go down there the buried elsewhere. For the capitalists money cure all, for us is the land that cure everything, hunger and disease of our peoples, and that is the dream of our grandfathers and grandmothers. Us and we have the leading role in the defense of the national security by the indigenous presence in all borders and we have always defended our territories.
It seems that there are people playing to the failure of our revolutionary government, before they were not the Constitution and these laws. What are we going to make indigenous peoples if you are the same officers who do not respect the laws of the revolution, our struggles?. Farmers are buying the consciences of the commissions of demarcation but not for us may buy. The regional commissions even we have heard, have been sold, the purchased at all. Already paid for that are not in favor of us. We do not want to the Ministry of Environment, which gives concessions to the mining industry and timber. The white yes them quickly letters agricultural or titles but for us and we only there are delays and we deliver the collective titles of land, only to some communities and riddled with errors and unconstitutionality.
We want the demarcation and the title collective. Our social organization, the constitution what it does is recognize from our historic struggle, all laws and legal definitions are shaped to institutions will assure us that we have historically demanded, because belongs to us.
The Constitution and the Organic Law of Indigenous Peoples and Communities protect us but in the institutions by the flouted. We want our rights as the Constitution and the Organic Law of Indigenous Peoples and Communities. Us and we we are reading but some officials do not seem to the knew. It seems that did not want guarantee these rights. The President is the just said Sunday in the Aló President: Even when i speak with stones! .
We want to be given classes to officials and staff members to
They run blood from the veins have to feel this is homeland-land and without the indigenous people there are no homeland true. We need the meeting with Chavez because it cannot be that the and indigenous people we have with a bottle of gallo (and excuse the expression) we lack respect for front and blatantly. It is not respected the right that we have to prior consultation informed to indigenous peoples. We have years living these problems in our communities and Chavez confident that we are solving our problems, but it is not true. Should be guaranteed full rights of collective ownership of indigenous peoples, obedeciéndose the mandate of social inclusion and historical justice driven by the President Chavez.
Indigenous Peoples, disappointed by both non-compliance, we want to say: 1. Calling for a meeting with the brother Chavez, with us and we the authorities originating indigenous (not officials or representatives elected) to submit a balance of the demarcation process and articulate new actions before the end of the year 2009.
2. We recognize to Sabino Romero Izarra as legitimate authority indigenous, who has raised its voice in defense of their ancestral territories, so that we reject the criminalization has been done for its action and we demand that applies the indigenous courts to resolve their case.
3. The dismissal of Sergio Rodriguez and members of the national and regional, since they have not guaranteed historical rights territorial to the indigenous peoples and communities, as the laws. Until now the commissions of demarcation of habitat and land only have entitled 1 per cent of indigenous communities throughout the country in 10 years, legalizing the rights of the third in the titles.
4. It was so effective our rights to participate hocracy and especially to decide in the process of territorial demarcation indigenous especially within the National and Regional Demarcation in whose appointment must participate and recognize. In turn, that it has the resources needed to make effective indigenous participation and the processes of contraloría social.
5. Respects our right to be informed in our own languages on all stages of the demarcation process.
6. Immediately Correcting the errors committed in the demarcation process and Certification, to implement the interpretation creole and agrarista of laws, excluding the indigenous world and violating the laws that recognize our rights as peoples.
7. To establish a timetable of inter-agency working with the participation of the indigenous peoples and communities to expedite the demarcation process, according to the time periods set in the Organic Law of Indigenous Peoples and Communities.
8. Validate the autodemarcación carried out by the people themselves, some of them developed more than 10 years.
9. Must be understood the consultation prior informed as a process led by indigenous people according to their own right and that is binding on the Commissions.
10. Audit and correct the titles that are or not protocols according to the following criteria: certification by indigenous people covering all the regions or sectors without divide; respect for the edges identified in the autodemarcación refraining from recognize the rights to third; land free of concessions of exploration and exploitation of resources; issuance of title only after approval of the final text by indigenous people in assembly led by the authorities legitimate and using indigenous languages. The coordinates included in the titles delivered and to deliver must be the identified by the indigenous peoples in the documents of autodemarcación, cannot be altered by any commission.
11. Guarantee all the rights of indigenous peoples in the territories demarcated or to demarcate sanitized of third parties (including indigenous peoples of other peoples to be carrying as creole) as basic guarantee for our rights originating, through the protection of our lives, security and personal integrity, threatened constantly by third parties (especially in border areas).
12. It should regulate (with the participation role of the legitimate authorities and traditional indigenous peoples and respecting the right own) the functioning of the commissions of demarcation, with the advice of the Executive, moral and legal.
13. That is to comply with the responsibility between the State and indigenous peoples in the defense of the territorial integrity indigenous together with the territorial unity of the Republic abandoning the false thesis that we attach intentions separatists. We demand that ensure border security, with full ownership indigenous, according to the Bolivarian Constitution and laws, promoting the establishment of relations of respect for the military toward indigenous people.
14. Effective implementation of plans comprehensive development for the social welfare, with the full participation role of the indigenous peoples and communities in its formulation, implementation and evaluation.
15. Equitable dissemination through the system public media and other channels of communication of the demarcation process: commitments, conflicts, resolutions and agreements between the indigenous authorities, spokesmen and spokeswomen of the states.
16. Respect for the Mother Nature and our environmental rights in our natural areas, and cessation of the crimes against us because they want free access to everything that the nature we always given to live with dignity.
17. We reject the exploitation of coal in the Sierra de Perija and other natural resources in the diversity of indigenous territories, so that we demand the revocation of all the concessions located in indigenous territories.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 7:17 PM
Updated: Sunday, 27 December 2009 7:23 PM
Saturday, 26 December 2009
ESTABLISH INGTHE "FIFTH (V) SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL "
Mood:
 a-ok
Now Playing: RESOLUTION OF THE 25 ORDINARY FMLN NATIONAL CONVENTION
Topic: Socialism
El Salvador: FMLN welcomes Hugo Chavez's call for a Fifth InternationalTranslated by Lara Pullin of the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network RESOLUTION OF THE XXV ORDINARY FMLN NATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE INITIATIVE TO ESTABLISH THE `FIFTH (V) SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL' This FMLN National Convention, CONSIDERING: (Sunday, December 13, 2009) 1. That the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) is a political organisation that has the responsibility, recognised by popular majority and as a consequence of our long history of struggle, of constructing in El Salvador a society based on social justice; which is economically productive, environmentally sustainable and wherein all exercise and respect fundamental freedoms and inherent rights of the human being, as recognised in the Constitution of the Republic. 2. That the progressive and left-wing political and social movements, which are leading the struggles for democracy and social progress, are experiencing a period of growth and gain in various parts of the world, and particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean; proposing and winning solutions to the major problems confronting the world today. 3. That it is evident that neoliberalism, that extreme form of uncontrolled capitalism, has not and will not be able to resolve the great challenges faced by modern civilisation, currently immersed in a deep economic and financial crisis that has deepened the conditions of poverty and misery for millions of human beings. To this is added, among other calamities that afflict humanity, the evident and destructive effects of climate change, the growth of diseases and illness, the energy crisis, the food crisis, the rise in transnational delinquency, and the threats to peace and democracy in various regions of the planet. 4. That in this context it is of paramount importance that all of the social movements and political organisations that characterise themselves as progressive, left and socialist, wherever they are around the world, intensify our theoretical discussion and the formulation of alternative development projects -– in order that we meet the aspirations of prosperity, freedom and self-determination of the people, and that this in turn stimulates solidarity and fraternal cooperation between us all. 5. That it is the right of any national political force, whatever its ideology, to promote links of friendship and the exchange of experiences with likeminded political organisations around the world, without undermining their independence and identity, and respecting the realities of their socio-political process. THEREFORE, RESOLVES: 1. To intensify our efforts in the international arenas to strengthen the opportunities for reflection, debate and the development of creative proposals and alternatives for economic development, social emancipation and sovereignty of peoples; including within the Sao Paulo Forum and the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean. 2. To acknowledge and welcome the initiative of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela to promote a new space that has become known as "V [Fifth] Socialist International”: to promote discussion, theoretical, political and ideological reflection, and solidarity between political forces around the world who promote the path of socialism as the way to guarantee our peoples' human development, economic prosperity, democracy and national independence, while preserving peace and the environmental sustainability of the planet. 3. Reiterate our solidarity, and that of the vast majority of the Salvadoran people, with the people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other South American nations who have undertaken structural changes; and who now face a new and serious threat to self-determination and sovereignty from the installation of foreign military bases near their borders.
LA INICIATIVA DE CREACIÓN DE LA “V INTERNACIONAL SOCIALISTA”RESOLUCIÓN DE LA XXV CONVENCIÓN NACIONAL ORDINARIA DEL FMLN SOBRE LA INICIATIVA DE CREACIÓN DE LA “V INTERNACIONAL SOCIALISTA” La CONVENCIÓN NACIONAL del FMLN, CONSIDERANDO: 1. Que el Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional es una organización política que tiene la responsabilidad, reconocida por las mayorías populares y consecuencia de toda una historia de lucha, de construir en El Salvador una sociedad con justicia social, económicamente productiva , ambientalmente sostenible y donde se ejerzan y respeten las libertades fundamentales y los derechos inherentes a la persona humana, reconocidos en nuestra Constitución de la República. 2. Que los movimientos políticos y sociales de naturaleza progresista y de izquierda, que abanderan las luchas por la democracia y el progreso social, viven un período de auge y avance en diversas partes del mundo, y particularmente en América Latina y el Caribe, proponiendo y materializando soluciones a los grandes problemas que aquejan a las sociedades. 3. Que es evidente que el neoliberalismo, versión extrema de un capitalismo salvaje, no logró ni podrá resolver los grandes desafíos de la civilización contemporánea, la cual vive inmersa hoy en día en una grave crisis económica y financiera, que ha profundizado las condiciones de pobreza y miseria de millones de seres humanos. A ello se agregan, entre otras calamidades que azotan a la Humanidad, las ya evidentes y destructivas manifestaciones del cambio climático, la proliferación de enfermedades, la crisis energética y alimenticia, el auge de la delincuencia transnacional y las amenazas a la paz y a la democracia en diversas regiones del planeta. 4. Que en este contexto, es de primordial importancia que los movimientos y organizaciones políticas y sociales de carácter progresista, de izquierda y socialistas en todo el mundo intensifiquen el debate teórico y la formulación de proyectos de desarrollo alternativos, que puedan ir al encuentro de las aspiraciones de prosperidad, libertad y autodeterminación de los pueblos, y que a la vez estimulen la solidaridad y la cooperación fraterna entre los mismos. 5. Que es un derecho de cualquier fuerza política nacional, cualquiera que sea su signo ideológico, fomentar vínculos de amistad e intercambio de experiencias con organizaciones políticas con las que guarden afinidad en el resto del mundo, sin menoscabo de su independencia e identidad propia y respetando las realidades de cada proceso político-social. POR TANTO, RESUELVE: 1. Intensificar sus esfuerzos en el terreno internacional para que se fortalezcan los espacios de reflexión, debate y construcción de propuestas creativas y alternativas para el desarrollo económico, la emancipación social y la soberanía de los pueblos, como lo son hoy en día el Foro de Sao Paulo y la Conferencia Permanente de Partidos Políticos de América Latina y el Caribe. 2. Saludar y dar la bienvenida a la iniciativa del Partido Socialista Unificado de Venezuela de propiciar un nuevo espacio, que se ha conocido como “V Internacional Socialista”, para promover el debate, la reflexión teórica, política e ideológica, y solidaridad entre las fuerzas políticas que en el mundo planteamos la vía del socialismo para garantizar a los pueblos desarrollo humano, prosperidad económica, democracia e independencia nacional, preservando la paz y la sostenibilidad ambiental del Planeta. 3. Ratificar su solidaridad y la de las grandes mayorías del pueblo salvadoreño con el pueblo de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y demás pueblos de Suramérica que han emprendido transformaciones estructurales y que enfrentan ahora una nueva y severa amenaza a su autodeterminación y soberanía, producto de la instalación de bases militares extranjeras en las proximidades de sus fronteras nacionales. CONVENCIÓN NACIONAL. San Salvador, 13 de Diciembre de 2009.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 8:21 AM
Monday, 21 December 2009
USA Drones fly into Venezuela airspace 2009
Mood:
irritated
Now Playing: President Chávez regarding the US military drones discovered violating Venezuelan territory just days ago
Topic: Anti War
Check out this article from Eva Gollinger at 
Caracas, 20 December 2009– Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez revealed today on his Sunday television and radio program, Aló Presidente, that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have illegally entered Venezuela’s airspace during the past several days. “A few days ago, one of these military planes penetrated Venezuela as far as Fort Mara,” a Venezuelan military fort in the State of Zulia, bordering Colombia. The drone was seen by several Venezuelan soldiers who immediately reported the aerial violation to their superiors. President Chávez gave the order today to shoot down any drones detected in Venezuelan territory. Chávez also directly implicated Washington in this latest threat against regional stability by confirming that the drones were of US origen. On Thursday, President Chávez denounced military threats against Venezuela originating from the Dutch islands Aruba and Curazao, situated less than 50 miles off Venezuela’s northwest coast. Both small islands host US air force bases as a result of a 1999 contract between Washington and Holland establishing US Forward Operating Locations (FOLs) in the Caribbean colonies. Originally, the contract stipulated US military presence in Aruba and Curazao soley for counternarcotics missions. However, since September 2001, Washington uses all its military installations to combat perceived terrorist threats around the world. The military bases in Aruba and Curazao have been used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaisance missions against Venezuela during the past several years. In 2006, Washington began conducting a series of high level military exercises using Curazao as the principal zone of operations. Hundreds of US aircraft carriers, warships, combat planes, Black Hawk helicopters, nuclear submarines and thousands of US military troops have been engaging in different military exercises and missions in the Caribbean region during the past three and a half years, causing substantial alarm and concern to nations in the region, particularly Venezuela, which has also been subject to hostile and agressive diplomatic actions from Washington. In 2008, the Pentagon reactivated the Navy’s Fourth Fleet, charged with defending US interests in the Latin American region. The Fourth Fleet was deactivated in 1950, after accomplishing its original defense mission during World War II. The fleet’s reactivation nearly 60 years later was perceived by a majority of nations in Latin America as a direct threat to regional sovereignty and provoked South American countries to establish a Defense Council to deal with external threats. The Pentagon responded by proudly admitting the Fourth Fleet’s reactivation was a “showing of US force and power in the region” and a demonstration that the US “will defend its regional allies”. This was perceived as direct support to Colombia, and an attempt to intimidate Venezuela.
On October 30, Colombia and the US signed a military cooperation agreement authorizing US occupation of seven military bases in Colombian territory and all other installations as required. The agreement is seen as the largest US military expansion in Latin American history. Although the two governments publicly justified the agreement as an increased effort to fight drug trafficking and terrorism, official US Air Force documents revealed that the US would conduct “full spectrum military operations” throughout South America from the Colombian bases. The Air Force documents also justified the disproportional military expansion as necessary to combat “the constant threat…from anti-US governments in the region”. The documents further revealed that the US presence in Colombia will increase the success of “Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaisance” operations and will improve the Pentagon’s capacity to conduct “expeditionary warfare” in Latin America. Since 2006, Washington has classified Venezuela as a nation “not fully collaborating with the war against terror”. In 2005, Venezuela was labeled by the State Department as a nation “not cooperating with counter-narcotics operations”. Despite no substantive evidence to prove such dangerous accusations, the US has utilized these classifications to justify an increase in agression towards the Venezuelan government. In 2008, the Bush Administration attempted to place Venezuela on the list of State Sponsors of terrorism. The initiative was unsuccessful primarily because Venezuela is still a principal supplier of oil to the US. Should Washington consider Venezuela a terrorist state, all relations would be cut off, including oil supply. Nevertheless, Washington still views Venezuela as a major threat to US interests in the region. The US is particularly concerned about Latin American nations engaging in commercial relations with countries such as China, Russia and Iran, perceived as economic threats to US control and domination in the region. Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a warning to countries in Latin America that have recently forged relations with Iran, such as Bolivia, Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela. “…I think that if people want to flirt with Iran, they should take a look at what the consequences might well be for them, and we hope that they will think twice…”, Clinton stated during remarks made regarding the State Department’s Latin American policy. The Colombian government announced yesterday that a new military base will be built right near the border with Venezuela, with funding and equipment from the United States. Colombia’s Defense Minister Gabriel Silva also announced the activation of two air battalions at other border areas near Venezuela. The new military base, located in the Guajira peninsula, which borders the Venezuelan State of Zulia, would have up to 1,000 troops and would also allow the presence of US armed forces and private military contractors. This announcement clearly ups the anty against Venezuela. Today’s statements made by President Chávez regarding the US military drones discovered violating Venezuelan territory just days ago further escalate the growing tensions between Venezuela and Colombia. The MQ-1 Predator UAV, a type of combat drone, has been used over the past year in Afghanistan and Pakistan to assassinate suspect terrorists. The drones are equipped with Hellfire missiles and are capable of hitting ground targets in sensitive areas. Venezuela is on high alert in the face of this dangerous threat. Chávez made the statements regarding the drone detection during the launching of the new National Police Force, a recently created communal police force directed at preventive security operations and community-based service.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 7:33 PM
Military Coup in Honduras
Mood:
caffeinated
Now Playing: 10 way to tell which side the USA is on the Military Coup in Honduras
Topic: USA IMPERIALISM
Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side The United States Government is On With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras December 17, 2009 By Mark Weisbrot
www.ZNET.com
At dawn on June 28, the Honduran military abducted President Manuel Zelaya at gunpoint and flew him out of the country. Conflicting and ambiguous statements from the Obama administration left many confused about whether it opposed this coup or was really trying to help it succeed. Here are the top ten indicators (with apologies to David Letterman):
10. The White House statement on the day of the coup did not condemn it, merely calling on "all political and social actors in Honduras" to respect democracy. Since U.S. officials have acknowledged that they were talking to the Honduran military right up to the day of the coup - allegedly to try and prevent it - they had time to think about what their immediate response would be if it happened.
9. The Organization of American States (OAS), the United Nations General Assembly, and other international bodies responded by calling for the "immediate and unconditional" return of President Zelaya. In the ensuing five months, no U.S. official would use either of those two words.
8. At a press conference the day after the coup, Secretary of State Clinton was asked if "restoring the constitutional order" in Honduras meant returning Zelaya himself. She would not say yes.
7. On July 24th, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced President Zelaya's attempt to return to his own country that week as "reckless," adding that "We have consistently urged all parties to avoid any provocative action that could lead to violence."
6. Most U.S. aid to Honduras comes from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency. The vast majority of this aid was never suspended. By contrast, on August 6, 2008, there was a military coup in Mauritania; MCC aid was suspended the next day. In Madagascar, the MCC announced the suspension of aid just three days after the military coup of March 17, 2009.
5. On September 28, State Department officials representing the United States blocked the OAS from adopting a resolution on Honduras that would have refused to recognize Honduran elections carried out under the dictatorship.
4. The United States government refused to officially determine that there was a "military coup," in Honduras - in contrast to the view of rest of the hemisphere and the world.
3. The Obama administration defied the rest of the hemisphere and the world by supporting undemocratic elections in Honduras.
On October 30th, U.S. government representatives including Thomas Shannon, the top U.S. State Department official for Latin America, brokered an accord between President Zelaya and the coup regime. The agreement was seen throughout the region as providing for Zelaya's restitution, and - according to diplomats close to the negotiations - both Shannon and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave assurances that this was true.
Yet just four days later, Mr. Shannon stated in a TV interview that the United States would recognize the November 29 elections, regardless of whether or not Zelaya were restored to the presidency. This put the United States against all of Latin America, which issued a 23-nation statement two days later saying that Zelaya's restitution was an "indispensable prerequisite" for recognizing the elections. The Obama administration has since been able to recruit the right-wing governments of Canada, Panama, and Colombia, and also Peru, to recognize the elections. But its support for these undemocratic elections - to which the OAS, European Union, and the Carter Center all refused to send observers - has left the Obama administration as isolated as its predecessor in the hemisphere.
2. President Zelaya visited Washington six times after he was overthrown. Yet President Obama has never once met with him. Is it possible that President Obama did not have even five minutes in all of those days just to shake his hand and say, "I'm trying to help?"
1. The Obama administration has never condemned the massive human rights violations committed by the coup regime. These have been denounced and documented by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as well as Honduran, European, and other human rights organizations. There have been thousands of illegal arrests, beatings and torture by police and military, the closing down of independent radio and TV stations, and even some killings of peaceful demonstrators and opposition activists.
These human rights violations have continued right through election day, according to Amnesty International and media reports, and beyond, including the killings of two activists opposed to the coup - Walter Trochez and Santos Corrales García - in recent days.
The United States government's silence through more than five months of these human rights crimes has been the most damning and persistent evidence that it has always been more concerned about protecting the dictatorship, rather than restoring democracy in Honduras.
The majority of American voters elected President Obama on a promise that our foreign policy would change. For this hemisphere, at least, that promise has been broken.
The headline from the latest Time Magazine report on Honduras summed it up: "Obama's Latin America Policy Looks Like Bush's."
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 7:29 PM
Updated: Monday, 21 December 2009 7:33 PM
Eva Gollinger speaks about US Military in Colombia 2009
Mood:
 not sure
Now Playing: Venezuela - Colombia and the US Military
Topic: CHAVEZ
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 7:10 PM
Updated: Monday, 21 December 2009 7:14 PM
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Cahvez COP15
Mood:
amorous
Now Playing: Chzvez speaks about police repression
Topic: CHAVEZ
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 9:38 PM
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