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by Leticia Martínez Hernández
With all their energy focused on healing, Cuba's medical teams will stay in Haiti for as long as the people need them. More ...
by Charles Hardy in Caracas
Thanks to television, on Tuesday, January 19, I heard a member of the U.S. military say to a group of Haitians, “If you don’t stand in line, we’re not going to help you.” I hope the Haitians didn’t understand him. More ...
People & Culture
"How does it feel to betray your own race?" These are the infamous last words of the mercenary colonel Miles Quartrich, snarled at the hero Jake Sully in the final minutes of James Cameron's Avatar; set a century and a half into the future and 25 trillion miles from our planet. But Sully and the tiny minority of humans who change sides to fight alongside the Na'vi people in the 3D sci-fi epic were far from being the only ones who became traitors. More ...
History
T.E. Lawrence’s book Seven Pillars of Wisdom is on the syllabus at the elite US army training college at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Seen as the man who “cracked fighting in the Middle East”, Lawrence is a “kind of poster boy” of how to do colonial rule, according to writer-presenter Rory Stewart, in The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia (BBC2, Jan 16 and 23 2010). More ...
Headlines
On January 27th, Evo Morales began his second term as president of Bolivia by swearing in a cabinet made up of an equal number of women and men - unprecedented in this South American nation with a strong patriarchal tradition. More ...
Headlines
President Hugo Chavez on Monday January 26th said that Petrocaribe, Venezuela's cut-rate regional energy alliance, will forgive quake-stricken Haiti's debt, AFP reported. More ...
International
This message was broadcast in Honduras on 10th January by Radio Globo, the radio station which expresses the views of the majority of Hondurans who oppose the coup regime. More ...
Opinions
The half-page, feature length article by Peter Sherwell about the situation in Venezuela that appeared in The Sunday Telegraph on 29th November follows an established pattern of unsympathetic and negative reporting in European and North American media, some of it touched on in my book 'Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised', published earlier this year. More ...