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Terrorists set pre-school ablaze with 89 children inside
By Arturo Rosales writes from Caracas.
Wednesday, Apr 2, 2014
April 2, 2014 (Axis of Logic) - Yesterday afternoon, terrorists set ablaze the building of Venezuela's Ministry of Housing & Habitat located on the Avenida Francisco de Miranda in the wealthy municipality of Chacao in East Caracas. Molotov gasoline bombs were thrown into the offices.
The fire department and the National Guard responded quickly and soon controlled the blaze that also affected 89 pre-school children aged between 3 and 6 years of age attending their public school. The children had to be rescued; otherwise they could have been overcome by noxious smoke or even burned alive.
The so-called corporate media "news" reports of student protests in the East of Caracas are simply a myth or rather outright lies. These are terrorist acts being promoted by the Venezuelan opposition and US financed lackeys, executed by paid thugs and killers. Yesterday was almost a national tragedy for the Venezuelan people and the families of these pre-school children and also for the whole of the South American continent.
The fact is that terrorism knows no bounds – not even for the lives of children – and now it is abundantly clear that we are dealing with terrorists and the government must act accordingly. It must take firm measures to root out these elements that could lead to the “Colombianization” of Venezuela by paid fascist groups operating sporadically in some major cities. Their supply lines for arms, funds and strategic/tactical oversight must be cut off to put an end to the ongoing 2014 attempts to overthrow the democratically-elected Venezuelan government.
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http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_66518.shtml
The West’s Looting of Ukraine Has Begun
April 01, 2014
Shackled by the IMF
The West’s Looting of Ukraine Has Begun
by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
It is now apparent that the “Maiden protests” in Kiev were in actuality a Washington organized coup against the elected democratic government. The purpose of the coup is to put NATO military bases on Ukraine’s border with Russia and to impose an IMF austerity program that serves as cover for Western financial interests to loot the country. The sincere idealistic protesters who took to the streets without being paid were the gullible dupes of the plot to destroy their country.
Politically Ukraine is an untenable aggregation of Ukrainian and Russian territory, because traditional Russian territories were stuck into the borders of the Ukraine Soviet Republic by Lenin and Khrushchev. The Crimea, stuck into Ukraine by Khrushchev, has already departed and rejoined Russia. Unless some autonomy is granted to them, Russian areas in eastern and southern Ukraine might also depart and return to Russia. If the animosity displayed toward the Russian speaking population by the stooge government in Kiev continues, more defections to Russia are likely.
The Washington-imposed coup faces other possible difficulties from what seems to be a growing conflict between the well-organized Right Sector and the Washington-imposed stooges. If armed conflict between these two groups were to occur, Washington might conclude that it needs to send help to its stooges. The appearance of US/NATO troops in Ukraine would create pressure on Putin to occupy the remaining Russian speaking parts of Ukraine.
Before the political and geographical issues are settled, the Western looting of Ukraine has already begun. The Western media, doesn’t tell any more truth about IMF “rescue packages” than it does about anything else. The media reports, and many Ukrainians believe, that the IMF is going to rescue Ukraine financially by giving the country billions of dollars.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/01/the-new-face-of-the-radical-right/
Paraguay: first general strike in 20 years
Paraguay: first general strike in 20 years
Submitted by Weekly News Update... on Tue, 04/01/2014 - 08:17 Southern Cone
Paraguay
Starting on the evening of March 25, thousands of Paraguayan unionists, campesinos and students participated in a 24-hour general strike to protest the economic policies of President Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara. Union sources said the action shut down transportation, schools and most businesses in Asunción. This was the country's first general strike in 20 years, and the first major demonstration against the government since President Cartes' inauguration last August. Cartes, a member of the rightwing Colorado Party, was elected in April 2013; the previous elected president, the left-leaning former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo, was removed from office by Congress in a de facto coup on June 22, 2012, one year before the end of his term.
The general strike was sponsored by a broad range of organizations, including the Classist Union Current (CSC), the Organization of Education Workers of Paraguay-National Union (OTEP-SN), the National Campesino Federation (FNC) and the leftist Paraguay Pyahurã Party (PPP). It was scheduled to coincide with the Poor Campesinos' March, an event campesino groups have held for 21 years to press for agrarian reform. The campesinos were also demanding controls over the prices of staple products and an end to an agricultural system based on large estates. Unionists were calling for a 25% increase in the minimum wage and were protesting the Public-Private Alliance Law, a proposal by Cartes that opponents see as a way to privatize public infrastructure, such as water treatment plants, Asunción's international airport and toll highways from the capital to Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia. Cartes had raised the minimum wage by 10% in February, from 1,658,232 to 1,824,005 guaranís a month (about US$373 to about US$410), but he acted without consulting union leaders, who dismissed the raise as inadequate.
The general strike opened with a music festival at the Plaza de la Democracia in Asunción the evening of March 25 and a gathering of campesinos in front of the city's cathedral. The government mobilized 26,000 agents of the National Police to monitor the strike and guard presidential offices and the Congress building, but there appeared to be no reports of violence. (Adital, Brazil, March 26; InfoBAE, Argentina, March 26; Mercopress, Uruguay. March 27)
http://ww4report.com/node/13117
As Brazil marks 50th anniversary of the coup, more people open up about the dictatorship
As Brazil marks 50th anniversary of the coup, more people open up about the dictatorship
By Dom Phillips, Published: March 31, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO — Under a 1979 amnesty law, no one has ever been tried for the human rights abuses committed during Brazil’s dictatorship. Although some victims have spoken about the horrors of that dark time, it seemed many Brazilians preferred to forget.
But as the country marks the 50th anniversary this week of the coup that brought the military to power, the dictatorship is at the center of a national debate about what happened and what it means today.
At a news conference Monday in Brasilia, the capital, President Dilma Rousseff remembered the victims of the coup, the BBC reported. “Our present day requires that we remember and speak about what happened. We owe this to those who died and disappeared, owe it to those who were tortured and persecuted, owe it to their families,” the BBC quoted her as saying.
Separately, Justice Minister José Eduardo Cardozo issued an official apology to the victims of the military government, the BBC said.
Rousseff, a former member of a left-wing guerrilla group, was among those imprisoned and tortured. She has never spoken publicly about the details of her experience.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/as-brazil-marks-50th-anniversary-of-the-coup-more-people-open-up-about-the-dictatorship/2014/03/30/ea259678-b6ae-11e3-8cc3-d4bf596577eb_story.html
Venezuela issues ID cards to curtail food hoarding
Venezuela issues ID cards to curtail food hoarding
By HANNAH DREIER, Associated Press | March 31, 2014 | Updated: April 1, 2014 2:14am
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Battling food shortages, the government is rolling out a new ID system that is either a grocery loyalty card with extra muscle or the most dramatic step yet toward rationing in Venezuela, depending on who is describing it.
President Nicolas Maduro's administration says the cards to track families' purchases will foil people who stock up on groceries at subsidized prices and then illegally resell them for several times the amount. Critics say it's another sign the oil-rich Venezuelan economy is headed toward Cuba-style dysfunction.
Registration begins at more than 100 government-run supermarkets across the country Tuesday, and working-class shoppers who sometimes endure hours-long lines at government-run stores to buy groceries at steeply reduced prices are welcoming the plan.
"The rich people have things all hoarded away, and they pull the strings," said Juan Rodriguez, who waited two hours to enter the government-run Abastos Bicentenario supermarket near downtown Caracas on Monday, and then waited another three hours to check out.
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http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Venezuela-issues-ID-cards-to-curtail-food-hoarding-5365703.php
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