El Espectador.com has learned from state intelligence agencies and the DAS which show how they move members of FARC in Venezuela and Cuba, with known and suspected guerrilla camps used to export the Bolivarian project into Colombia.
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Chavez consolidating power with Commune-ism
WHEN Jorge Urosa, the archbishop of Caracas, said recently that Hugo Chávez was installing a “Marxist-communist” regime in Venezuela, the country’s leftist president called him a “troglodyte” and accused him of “instilling fear in the people.” Yet Mr Chávez, an avowed socialist, is openly seeking to introduce what looks like a novel form of communism.
My Biggest Mistake in the White House – Karl Rove
Failing to refute charges that Bush lied us into war has hurt our country.
State Department Mulls Terror Designation for Gaza ‘Aid’ Ship Funder -don’t hold your breath
The Turkish Muslim charity, The Foundation for Human Rights and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), that funded and operated a Gaza-bound “aid” ship is part of a larger coalition of groups and individuals intending to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. The State Department is ‘looking at’ whether IHH should be designated a foreign terrorist organization according to a story at FOXNews.com. Don’t hold your breath.
U.S. Taxpayers to Subsidize New U.N. Agency Promoting Abortion
The U.S. will subsidize a new $500-million United Nations agency that conservatives say will likely promote an abortion agenda.
A war on whose terms?
UAE Ambassador to the US Youssef al-Otaiba said that the Arab states of the Persian Gulf cannot live with a nuclear Iran, that he supports military strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and that if the US fails to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, the Arab states of the Gulf will abandon their alliances with the US in order to appease Iran.
Iran Pastor Facing Execution, Church Official
TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)– A well-known Iranian pastor faces execution after two judges agreed to make him “liable to capital punishment,” as part of a crackdown on the growing Protestant church movement in the Islamic nation, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, July 13.
Freed Cuban dissidents speak after landing in Spain
In a statement issued after they landed in Madrid, the freed men said exile was a “continuation of the struggle”.
New START and Obama’s Mysterious Trip to Russia
Documents suggest that the Russian or U.S. position on New START could have been affected by the activities of the Russian intelligence agents. Still, Sen. Lugar remains completely devoted to negotiations, agreements and a close relationship with Putin’s Russia. While he posted an attack on Romney for opposing the New START, a search of Lugar’s website finds no demands for any investigations to determine what influence the Russian intelligence operations may have had on the final terms in the treaty.
Chávez is losing the ideological war over democracy in Latin America
The triumph of democracy in Honduras marked a turning point. The recent election results in Colombia; the remarkable economic, political, and social progress of Peru, the new conservative governments in Panama and Chile; Felipe Calderón’s handling of a complex political situation in Mexico; and the increasingly blatant authoritarian excesses of Venezuela and its satellites—all of this has created an adverse environment for Chávez and his cohorts.