International

PARMA, Ohio – At a town hall meeting held in the community center of this Cleveland suburb, Tom Frisbie, president of Cleveland’s AFL-CIO, denounced the loss of 766,000 jobs since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

El presidente de Bolivia, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada anunció, el 13 de octubre, que temporeramente va a suspender su plan de exportar gas natural licuado a través de Chile hacia Estados Unidos, en su intento de poner fin a las huelgas masivas, manifestaciones y bloqueos de carreteras por campesinos que básicamente han paralizado a Bolivia por más de un mes.

LA HABANA (Prensa Latina) – América Latina, incluido el Caribe, se encuentra llena de infantes que pueblan sus avenidas. Ellos son conocidos como los niños de la calle y se calcula que ascienden a 40 millones.

En la República Dominicana, nominalmente existen tres partidos políticos, de los denominados mayoritarios. Estos son el Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, el Partido Reformista, y el Partido de la Liberación Dominicana.

Opinion

Edward W. Said, who died Sept. 25 at the age of 67, was many things to many people. Depending on which newspaper’s obituary you read, Said was “a prominent figure in the debate over the Arab-Israeli conflict” (Boston Globe), “the subject of bitter dispute” (the London Daily Telegram), a “Palestinian apologist” (The Jerusalem Post), or “the most prominent advocate in the United States of the cause of Palestinian independence” (The New York Times).

Opinion

I learned to fly as an RAF cadet in Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe] during the war and vividly remember the way in which Britain obliterated the history of the people of the country that it then occupied and controlled.

Opinion

Last year, the Bush administration sought $15.5 million for a three-year program called Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Program (RNEP), to study usable nuclear weapons.

MONTREAL – Pledging “our full support to help other unions across the globe that represent workers in the aluminum industry when they are in need of our solidarity,” 160 delegates from 17 nations at the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) World Aluminum conference addressed growing dangers being posed by global aluminum corporations Oct. 6.

Asia: Coca-Cola workers mobilize / Russia: Bauxite miners win big / Greece: Strikes paralyze capital / Venezuela: Chavez says, ‘Celebrate resistance’

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian human rights activist and lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, on Oct. 10, has significant internal and international implications for the development of political events in Iran.