South America

4th ANNUAL VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHE GUEVARA CONFERENCE
“CUBA TODAY: The Gains & Challenges”

RUSSIAN HALL
600 Campbell Ave.
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Conference: November 11-12, 2011 – 10am-7pm
Special 5 Cuban Heroes exhibition and cultural event: November 13,
2011 2pm-6pm

With Special Guest:
DR. ALEIDA GUEVARA
Cuban Leader, Prominent Author and Daughter of Legendary Revolutionary
Ernesto Che Guevara

Conference workshops will include the following themes:
1. “World crisis, imperialist offensive and our alternatives”
2. "Cuba’s gains, challenges and evolving socialism"
3. “Cuban reform vs. Chinese reform: what we can learn”
4. "Revolutionary Cuban youth today: projections and challenges”
5. “Sustainability and cooperatives in Cuba's future”

14 Countries have movements to shut down School of the Americas. The recent maximum prison sentences in federal court in Georgia (for sweet people who challenge the legitimacy of SOA by crossing a line)
demonstrate denial in action. The US so dislikes talking about the badness of these folks.
Check out this cool video!:

http://soaw.org/component/content/article/3564

Written by Lisa Sullivan

A
School of the Americas graduate has been charged for last Thursday's
unsuccessful coup attempt in Ecuador.  Colonel Manuel E. Rivadeneira
Tello, a graduate of  the SOA's combat arms training course, is one of
three police officials being investigated for negligence, rebellion and
attempted assassination of the president.

Fri, 10/01/2010 - 15:02 — AP

By Eva Golinger

Translation: Machetera

The
latest coup attempt against one of the countries in the Bolivarian
Alliance For The People of Our America (ALBA) is attempt to impede Latin
American integration and the advance of revolutionary democratic
processes. The rightwing is on the attack in Latin America. Its
success in 2009 in Honduras against the government of Manuel Zelaya

Here is an Al Jazeera report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=WxYUCkVTY64

Statement
presented by the Society for Threatened Peoples

Mr President,
distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen,

(IPS) - Five days before the assassination in downtown
Washington of former Chilean Defence Minister Orlando Letelier,
then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions to U.S.
ambassadors in Latin America's Southern Cone to warn the region's
military regimes against carrying out "a series of international
murders", according to documents released by the National Security
Archive (NSA) here.

Livio Pandora Internet Radio

Americas Program Special Report

International
Pre-electoral Observation Mission | March 8, 2010

Americas Program,
Center for International Policy (CIP)

Thirteen Bari Indians of the Sierra de Perijá mountains in
western Venezuela attended an historic hearing at the Supreme Court in
Caracas last week, to defend their right to own their ancestral land.

Venezuelan
law guarantees indigenous peoples the right to own their land and the
Constitution stipulates that all indigenous land must be demarcated by
2001. However, the Bari are still waiting for their land title to be
granted.

It was the first time that the Bari have been allowed
to speak at such a hearing, despite having pushed the courts to listen
to them for the past ten years.

At last week’s hearing, a Bari
leader said, "Sabaseba, our god, ordered us to look after our

Interpress can be a good source of international news not found elsewhere. -Rick