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Ecuadorian leader Correa wins re-election

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa won re-election to a third term on Feb. 17.  Preliminary results show him winning by more…

February 19, 2013

Chávez returns to Venezuela

In the early morning of Feb. 18, a surprising tweet from chavezcandanga, the twitter account of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez,…

February 18, 2013

Fidel Castro to Hugo Chávez: ‘Until victory always!’

The following letter was written to Hugo Chávez by Fidel Castro just before Chávez’s return to Venezuela in the early…

February 18, 2013

Is there a civil war in Syria?

After almost two years of fighting in Syria, it is incorrect to call the struggle a “civil war.” True, large…

February 17, 2013

Honduran LGBTQ leader describes repression, resistance

New York — Pepe Palacios, a LGBTQ leader and activist from the resistance movement in Honduras, spoke at an event…

February 15, 2013

French imperialism moves deeper into Mali

Since Jan. 11, when France launched bombing attacks and a ground invasion into the resource-rich African country of Mali, Paris…

February 12, 2013

Indian women’s conference unites politics, protest & culture

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India — Just a month after the horrific gang rape of a young woman in Delhi, India, sparked militant…

February 12, 2013

President Chávez: ‘We live in a really and truly free country’

On Feb. 4, Vice President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela read a message to the Venezuelan people from President Hugo Chávez…

February 11, 2013

People’s participation strong in Colombia peace talks

The peace negotiations that started in Havana, Cuba, in November between the FARC-EP (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejercito del Pueblo)…

February 10, 2013

Leftist leader’s murder arouses mass resistance in Tunisia

The 500,000 members of Tunisia’s union federation shut down this North African country’s major cities on Feb 8 as tens…

February 8, 2013