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Commercial news reporters and pundits have lately made a great to-do about the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev’s famous “secret” speech denouncing Stalin’s leadership in the old Soviet Union. They credit the speech with beginning a process that eventually ended with the downfall of the entire socialist structure of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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Iraq: Healing the past and present
India: Recycling plastic waste
Ecuador: People vs. oil
Chad: Darfur refugees seek peace
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On Feb. 14 attorneys in the case of the Cuban Five took judges’ questions for an hour before the full 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Meanwhile demonstrations of support for Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González were breaking out all over the world
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UNITED NATIONS — The UN Commission for Social Development wrapped up its 44th session Feb. 17 after reviewing poverty eradication efforts over the past decade, reaffirming the Millennium Development goals and urging all countries to adopt plans to fulfill them, especially the overriding goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015.
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NEW YORK — Recent tactics of the FBI, which include military-style assaults and home raids on people in Puerto Rico who favor independence — as well as the pepper spraying of journalists — have provoked public outrage across the island and in the United States. Such outrage was evident at a recent forum in East Harlem.

En español Siguen protestas contra abusos FBI
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The bombing of Iraq’s Askariya mosque, Feb. 22, shattered a 1,200-year-old shrine especially revered by Shiites. Its huge golden dome, now wrecked, dominated the landscape of Samarra, a predominantly Sunni city. Built 100 years ago, it covered the ancient tombs of the 10th and 11th Imams, considered holy descendants of the Prophet Muhammad. Another dome marks the spot where the 12th and last Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, is believed to have vanished in 878. Much like the Jewish Messiah, believers say Mahdi will return to restore justice to the world
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Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) criticó a las declaraciones del presidente colombiano Álvaro Uribe de tratar de verse como un hombre de paz e insinuado que las FARC son las que no quieren negociaciones de paz. Uribe está “ en el argumento mentiroso del desmonte del paramilitarismo en Colombia”, dicen el comunicado del Secretariado del Estado Mayor Central fechado el 14 de febrero. Las insinuaciones de Uribe vinieron mientras este hacía un acto de campaña política el 11 de febrero en el departamento de Cundinamarca.
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Con la muertes recién de destacados dirigente revolucionarios latinoamericanos como lo fueron Schafik Jorge Handal, dirigente del Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional en El Salvador, y Pedro Ortega Díaz, presidente del Partido Comunista de Venezuela, también se recuerda al sacerdote colombiano Camilo Torres Restrepo en el 40 aniversario de su muerte en su primer combate como integrante del Ejército de Liberación Nacional colombiano.
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Donde quiera que uno mire en los medios de comunicación de Puerto Rico, siguen las críticas y protestas contra los allanamientos por el FBI a los hogares y sitio de trabajo de dirigentes independent-istas el 10 de febrero donde fueron atropellados varios periodistas.
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Para principios de marzo la Comisión Judicial del Senado tomará la cuestión de “reforma migratoria”. El republicano Arlen Specter, presidente de la comisión, hizo un resumen de las cosas que él quiere que se consideren. Entre estos están medidas de control de inmigración y un programa de trabajadores huéspedes. La legalización para los indocumentados tenía menos énfasis.
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