El Partido Comunista de Uruguay (PCU) animó al presidente Tabaré Vázquez que cambie “el rumbo del gobierno” por medio de “las grandes masas movilizadas y organizadas en torno al programa del Frente Amplio”. 
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| July 21, 2007
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A pesar de los intentos del régimen narco-paramilitar de Álvaro Uribe para restarle credibilidad a las FARC, la organización insurgente colombiana cada día que pasa gana más respetabilidad y receptividad en amplios espacios de lo que se ha dado en llamar la “comunidad internacional” y ni qué decir a nivel nacional.
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El 10 de julio, el juicio del revolucionario colombiano Ricardo Palmera, también conocido como Simón Trinidad, llegó a su fin en Washington. Palmera fue declarado culpable de la acusación de haber tomado rehenes, pero el jurado no pudo decidir sobre las cuatro otra acusaciones. En noviembre de 2006, el primer juicio de Palmera fue declarado nulo cuando el jurado no pudo estar de acuerdo sobre el veredicto.
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I’m not so much of a world traveler, but I do know from friends who travel that there are few places you can go where you won’t find a McDonald’s, a Kentucky Fried Chicken or a Wal-Mart. One of those few places is Cuba — no McDonald’s, no Exxon Mobil or Citibank.
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A major earthquake hit Japan’s Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant this week. That should give pause to those who advocate looking to nuclear power as concerns about global warming escalate.
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Privatization, a strategy to eliminate public control over vital sectors of the economy, is nothing new. What is new, and perhaps more ominous, is that privatization has become the preferred method by which the Bush administration neoconservatives and transnational global corporations take over and occupy whole countries.
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BOGOTA — Miles de colombianos se manifestaron el 5 de julio para lograr un acuerdo humanitario para alcanzar la libertad de los prisioneros retenidos por ambos sectores en conflicto — el gobierno y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC-EP).
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HOUSTON — Four women who used to work for KBR, formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root, have filed suit against KBR and Halliburton, alleging they were sexually harassed and, in two cases, raped while on the job in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers returned to the capital from a July 4th recess with their constituents’ urgent demands for an end to the Iraq war still ringing in their ears.
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Darfur has almost become a household word, and with good reason. The first human-made catastrophe of the 21st century, its death count combined with the huge humanitarian crisis staggers the imagination. Whether it’s the 400,000 claimed by some or the 70,000 suggested by the UN in March, the human toll combined with rapes, burned villages and destroyed lives has torn a gaping hole in the fabric of humanity.
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