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Luis “Lucho” Eduardo Garzón ganó las elecciones para alcalde de Bogotá, capital de Colombia, el 25 de octubre. El ex dirigente de la Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, anteriormente se había postulado para la presidencia de Colombia en el 2002 como candidato del Frente Social y Político y salió en tercer lugar.

Decenas de miles de trabajadores, campesinos, indígenas y estudiantes de Bolivia llenaron las calles de La Paz, capital de este país sudamericano, la semana pasada para celebrar el derrocamiento de presidente Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada.

LA HABANA (Granma) – Noam Chomsky, el destacado filósofo norteamericano, profesor del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachussets, desnudó el 28 de octubre toda la política reaccionaria del Gobierno de George Bush en una conferencia magistral pronunciada en la XXV Asamblea del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), denominada “Dilemas de la Dominación”.

Opinion

This summer’s heat wave in Europe left more than 11,000 people dead in France alone. Hospitals and morgues were overwhelmed. Most of the victims were elderly. Most lived in isolation from family and community. Most were poor.

S. Africa: Shoprite strikers march / Greece: Anti-NATO activists on trial again / Australia: Maritime firm stranded Pacific Island workers / Sudan: East Africa leaders say peace deal close

HAIFA, Israel – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Israel and Arab Israeli lawmaker Issam Mahoul and wife, Su’ad, survived a car bomb explosion and fire on Oct. 24.

The following is an excerpted letter from the Iraqi Communist Party issued on Oct. 18. To see the letter in full go to www.iraqcp.org

Congress voted to approve the Bush administration’s $87 billion package for the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, but not without vocal and sometimes vehement opposition by lawmakers and peace activists.

PITTSBURGH – As far as working families are concerned, nothing good came out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The Economic Policy Institute estimates that NAFTA has cost 765,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs since 1993.

Widening reports of low morale among U.S. troops are adding to pressures on the Bush administration to find a bailout for its failed Iraq policy.