Cuba, Brazil trade ideas, goods
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Cuba in mid-January. He and his ministers signed agreements with their Cuban counterparts relating to credit, technical exchanges, trade and energy. On Jan. 15 Lula spent almost three hours with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
U.S. backs Bolivian separatists
“My immediate thought was ‘Oh my God! Somebody from the U.S. Embassy just asked me to basically spy for the U.S. Embassy.’” John van Schaick, a Fulbright scholar recently arrived in Bolivia, was reacting to diplomat Vincent Cooper’s request passed on during a mandatory orientation session at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz on Nov. 5, 2007.
Co-ops transform Venezuela
For over a decade, an abandoned refilling station owned by Venezuelan oil company PDVSA in western Caracas was a place of death. Community residents said it was a place where women were raped, murdered bodies dumped and drugs used and dealt.
Letters - Feb. 9, 2008
Disappointed on ‘Juno’ Dialogue Goodbye to Utah as we know it? More on ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ What’s happened to nursing?
Video: CPUSA Organizer Discusses Super Tuesday
The first thing to talk about is the tremendous excitement and engagement of people in this election. Voter turnout is breaking records. People went to vote in the primaries almost as if it were the general election.
Letters - Feb. 2, 2008
Big business apples Remember Stalingrad Social Security shame Vets issues on the ballot William Z. Foster still inspires
Edwards ends presidential bid. Obama, Clinton praise ex-rival
John Edwards withdrew from the race for the presidency Jan. 30, saying in New Orleans, where he had launched his campaign, “it is time to step aside so that history can blaze its path.” He was referring to a campaign that could put Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first woman, or Barack Obama, the first African American, in the White House.
Milton Wolff, last Lincoln Brigade Commander
Milton Wolff, a perennial symbol of U.S. working-class internationalism, died Jan. 14 in California at age 92. Born in Brooklyn of immigrant parents, the last commander of the Washington-Lincoln Brigades that fought fascism in Spain was a man of charisma and intelligence.
LETTERS: Jan. 26
Cost of war Torture Vote ‘yes’ on VA health care The Philippines and the Pomeroys Nevada results King legacy is for everyone
LETTERS: Jan. 19
‘Right to work’ scam Photos of Sam Kushner Kucinich $201,000 – Thank you!
