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  • Latin American states vie for Russian weaponry at arms show

    04/20/2009 2:52:29 AM PDT · by pobeda1945 · 22 replies · 852+ views
    RIA Novosti ^ | 20/ 04/ 2009
    RIO DE JANEIRO, April 20 (RIA Novosti) - Latin American countries showed a growing interest in purchasing Russian-made weaponry during a recent arms show in Brazil, an official from Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said. Latin America Aero and Defense (LAAD) is the largest and most important biennial event for the Armed Forces and defense industries of Latin American countries. This year it was held on April 14-18 in Rio de Janeiro. "The countries of the region showed an increased interest in Russian aircraft and helicopters, armored vehicles, technical means for military training, and other military equipment including air defense...
  • Video-Daniel Ortega Compares U.S. Border Fence With Mexico To Racial Segregation

    04/19/2009 4:35:43 PM PDT · by Talkradio03 · 7 replies · 1,259+ views
    hotairpundit ^ | 4/19/09 | Talkradio03
    Daniel Ortega at the Summit had a 50 minutes anti American rant, this, a portion of that speech translated, from the CNN.com webcast. Obama didn't respond to this, being previously made comfortable from sitting in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years, probably felt right at home..
  • Obama Endures Ortega Diatribe

    04/18/2009 7:12:12 AM PDT · by EagleUSA · 102 replies · 3,456+ views
    Fox News / Politics ^ | 04/18/2009 | EagleUSA
    PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that lashed out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America and included a rambling denunciation of the U.S.-imposed isolation of Cuba's Communist government. Obama sat mostly unmoved during the speech but at times jotted notes. The speech was part of the opening ceremonies at the fifth Summit of the Americas here. Later, at a photo opportunity with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Obama held his tongue when asked what he thought about Ortega's speech. "It was 50...
  • Obama Endures Ortega Diatribe

    04/17/2009 10:09:01 PM PDT · by pissant · 31 replies · 1,700+ views
    Fox ^ | 4/18/09 | Major Garrett
    PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that lashed out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America and included a rambling denunciation of the U.S.-imposed isolation of Cuba's Communist government. Obama sat mostly unmoved during the speech but at times jotted notes. The speech was part of the opening ceremonies at the fifth Summit of the Americas here. Later, at a photo opportunity with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Obama held his tongue when asked what he thought about Ortega's speech. "It was 50...
  • U.S. gives drop-dead treatment to tortured beauty

    04/05/2009 6:59:41 PM PDT · by Firefigher NC · 39 replies · 2,143+ views
    worldnetdaily ^ | April 05, 2009 | Chelsea Schilling
    CAMARILLO, Calif. – A woman tortured by Nicaragua's Sandanista regime is pleading with the United States for asylum, but American immigration officials have shown her little sympathy – even though she faces rape, abuse and possibly death if she returns to her country. Sandinista torture Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega has employed neighborhood committees called Citizens Power Councils, or CPCs, used by his corrupt left-wing Sandinista party to spy on citizens, intimidate and torture them. Auxiliadora Martinez, 23, is a political refugee and campaign organizer for Eduardo Montealegre, Constitutionalist Party candidate for Managua mayor. She told WND the CPCs attacked her...
  • Central America looks to U.S. for solution to economic crisis (Nicaragua's Ortega wants US bailout)

    03/27/2009 6:57:16 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 9 replies · 500+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | March 25, 2009 | TIM ROGERS
    MANAGUA -- To offset the recent wave of factory closings and work suspensions at U.S. textile and manufacturing plants in Central America, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is asking the U.S. government for an economic bailout plan for Central America. Speaking at Wednesday's extraordinary presidential meeting of the Central American Integration System, Ortega went against the current of other leaders in attendance by criticizing the U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) as being fickle and unjust. Despite the promises of CAFTA-DR, Ortega said, ``What's happening now is that they are closing U.S. investment linked to the trade agreement in Central...
  • Iran Setting Up Shop South of the Border

    03/27/2009 4:28:30 PM PDT · by Cindy · 28 replies · 906+ views
    PAJAMAS MEDIA ^ | March 27, 2009 | by Todd Bensman
    Iran Setting Up Shop South of the Border Obama's overtures to Tehran have given Mexico the green light to start cozying up with the mullahs. (Watch an interview with Todd Bensman here.) March 27, 2009 - by Todd Bensman Page 1 of 2 Next -> Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers It is often said in matters of love and real estate that timing is everything. Now, strange though the application may seem, the same cliche can be said about Iran’s steady march north through Latin America right up to the U.S. southern border. While America’s political and diplomatic glitterati...
  • COVERT RADIO Daily Blast: March 27

    03/27/2009 3:31:23 PM PDT · by Cindy · 14 replies · 411+ views
    COVERT RADIO SHOW.com ^ | March 27, 2009 | n/a
    http://covertradioshow.com http://covertradioshow.com/podcast.cfm?pid=163 COVERT RADIO Daily Blast: March 27 "Today, Brett looks at the Afghan Plan and Hezbollah in Mexico."
  • Top UN official says US demonizing Iran leader (Ahmadinejad)

    03/18/2009 4:22:16 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 17 replies · 990+ views
    UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — UN General Assembly president Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a harsh critic of US foreign policy under president George W. Bush, accused Washington on Tuesday of demonizing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "I don't think anyone can doubt that in our part of the world, Ahmadinejad has been demonized," the former Nicaraguan foreign minister said as he briefed reporters on his recent foreign tour, including a stop in Iran where he attended a regional economic summit. "The United States has been in the business of the demonization of people for ever and the canonization of the worst of dictators,"...
  • Iran’s Push Into Nicaragua: Why Is No One Concerned?

    03/17/2009 1:29:56 PM PDT · by AJKauf · 5 replies · 383+ views
    Pajamas Media ^ | March 17 | Todd Bensman
    I am pretty sure that I remain the only American reporter to have traveled to leftist President Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua to find out what the Iranian government is doing there. I apologize if I missed something out there. While I appreciated having the exclusive at the time, more than a year after my travels I continue to wonder why there there is such a persistent lack of curiosity from my mainstream press corps colleagues. The press, quite rightly, has swarmed like migrating wildebeest all over the the Islamic Republic of Iran’s burgeoning economic and diplomatic ties to Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela...
  • Leftist Declares Victory in El Salvador Election

    03/16/2009 6:04:16 AM PDT · by Alter Kaker · 40 replies · 2,921+ views
    Washington Post ^ | March 16 2009 | William Booth
    MIAMI, March 16 -- Mauricio Funes, a former TV newsman who was recruited to run for president, declared himself the winner of El Salvador's presidential contest Sunday night, bringing into power a leftist party built by former guerrillas and ending two decades of conservative rule. Funes, a dynamic speaker and political outsider who compares himself to President Obama and pledged to be an agent of change in the small Central American nation, was leading the polls late Sunday night with 51.2 percent of the vote and more than 90 percent of the ballots counted. Turnout was high and election day...
  • Russia weighs Cuba, Venezuela bases: report

    03/14/2009 8:59:09 AM PDT · by pissant · 33 replies · 1,254+ views
    Breitbart ^ | 3/14/09 | staff
    Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday. "This is possible in Cuba," General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air force's strategic aviation staff, told the Interfax-AVN military news agency. The comments were the latest signal that Moscow intends to project its military capability in far-flung corners of the globe despite a tight defence budget and hardware that experts consider in many respects outdated. Zhikharev indicated that Russia was looking only at occasional use...
  • Soviets' Red Dawn coalition emerges

    03/14/2009 8:23:21 AM PDT · by ihatedemocrats · 17 replies · 752+ views
    Once Upon a Time in the West ^ | March 14, 2009 | Perilous Times
    Communist Bloc Military Updates: Soviets' Red Dawn coalition emerges as Cuba, Venezuela reiterate offers to host strategic bombers - Kremlin Delighted Faux Rightist President Sarkozy Preparing to Reintegrate French Military into NATO Command Structure - Russian and Chinese Foreign Ministers Promote the Moscow-Beijing Axis' "One Clenched Fist" Last July the Kremlin media cautiously broached the subject of basing strategic bombers in Cuba and Venezuela. The Russian Defense Ministry promptly distanced itself from the "revelation," while America's top general warned the Russians against contemplating such a move. This trial balloon released by the Soviets took place during the Bush Administration, which...
  • Kidnapped (Immigrants returned after families paid ransom)

    03/12/2009 2:54:20 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 9 replies · 831+ views
    LAREDO MORNING TIMES ^ | March 12, 2009 | MIGUEL TIMOSHENKOV
    NUEVO LAREDO - There were at least 15 "express kidnappings" of Central Americans in January and February in this border city, civil rights officials said Wednesday. All were released after family members in the United States met ransom demands. The figures were released at a news conference by José Luis Manso Ramírez, coordinator of the Centro de Derechos Humanos del Migrante (center for immigrant human rights), and Father Francisco Pellizari, director of Nuevo Laredo's Casa del Migrante. "I have documents with testimony from victims of express kidnappings in this city," Manso said. "They were deprived of their freedom up to...
  • ORTEGA CALLS FOR PERMANENT MOBILIZATION IN NICARAGUA

    03/12/2009 1:59:40 PM PDT · by mick · 25 replies · 1,533+ views
    Tico Times of Costa Rica ^ | March 12, 2009 | By Tim Rogers
    Sounding more like a rebel leader than the president of a democratic republic, Daniel Ortega last week called for a permanent Sandinista insurrection to “struggle constantly” against what he calls “the enemy.” Ortega's inflammatory words came hours after Sandinista mobs clashed violently with anti-government protesters who marched on nine cities Feb. 28 to protest last year's alleged election fraud and what many consider the return to dictatorship here under the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Sandinista mobs shot mortars and threw rocks at opposition protesters, who responded in kind. Liberal Party lawmaker Luis Callejas – one of several people injured...
  • Chavez, Ahmadinejad and the New "Missile Crisis"

    03/09/2009 2:56:01 AM PDT · by Cindy · 4 replies · 499+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Monday, March 09, 2009 | By Alejandro Peña-Esclusa
    SNIPPET: "On January 6, 2009, Hugo Chávez expelled the Israeli ambassador in Venezuela. Immediately after, the terrorist group Hamas publicly congratulated the "courageous step taken by the Venezuelan president." Three weeks later, after repeated anti-Semitic speeches by Venezuelan officials, the Tiferet Israel synagogue in Caracas was brutally desecrated. The perpetrators were later caught by the police, but they were undoubtedly encouraged by the official discourse. These facts are not coincidental. They are the natural result of the many political and economic agreements signed between Chávez and the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who promised to "wipe Israel off the face...
  • Top U.N. Official Accuses U.S. of Inhuman 'Atrocities' in Iraq, Afghanistan

    03/06/2009 1:07:26 AM PST · by atomic conspiracy · 13 replies · 1,395+ views
    Fox News ^ | 3-05-09 | Ben Evansky
    A top U.N. official accused the United States of committing inhuman "atrocities" in Iraq and Afghanistan during a speech Wednesday to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. "The aggressions against Iraq and Afghanistan and their occupations constitute atrocities that must be condemned and repudiated by all who believe in the rule of law in international relations," said U.N. General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann. • Click here to see the speech. D'Escoto claimed that U.S. actions have directly led to more than a million Iraqi civilian deaths since 2003, a vastly inflated figure that does not correspond with the...
  • Iran eyes Mexico in deepening Latin America ties

    02/26/2009 4:01:25 PM PST · by Flavius · 14 replies · 480+ views
    ap ^ | 2/26/09 | ap
    MEXICO CITY – Iran is exploring ways to expand anemic trade with Mexico as part of stepped up efforts to deepen ties with Latin America, a top Iranian diplomat said Thursday. Annual trade between Mexico and Iran is a mere $50 million, compared to $2 billion with Brazil, said Ali Reza Salari, Iran's deputy foreign minister for the Americas. "We are here to investigate, why so low?" Reza Salari told reporters in Mexico City, where he was to meet with diplomats and business leaders. "With Mexico, there is absolutely no political problem between us. No cultural problems. It shows we...
  • Nicaragua: Sandinista Mob Attacks Opposition Mayors, Councilmen

    01/15/2009 6:52:46 AM PST · by Ebenezer · 7 replies · 371+ views
    La Prensa (Spanish-language article) ^ | January 15, 2009 | Wendy Álvarez Hidalgo & María José Uriarte
    (Abridged English-language translation) While President Daniel Ortega asked last night "to eradicate violence as a method of struggle", hundreds of Sandinista followers who attended the swearing-in of municipal officials held at Plaza de la República became violent towards the liberals who were protesting against election fraud. Ten minutes had barely passed after Ortega asked to eliminate violence in Nicaragua when a large Sandinista mob attacked mayors and [municipal] councilmen with the [opposition] Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC) who came to be sworn in by the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE). Once Ortega's speech ended, the Sandinistas attempted to lynch PLC Managua councilman...
  • 189 immigrants rescued from Reynosa[Mexico]stash house

    01/06/2009 2:25:33 PM PST · by SwinneySwitch · 4 replies · 503+ views
    KGBT ^ | January 05, 2009
    Mexican military officials said they rescued 189 undocumented immigrants from a Reynosa stash house during a Sunday night raid. An anonymous tip reportedly led authorities to a home off Calles Doctor Plata and Rio Purificacion in the Colonia Doctores. Mexico's El Universal newspaper reported that officials found 157 men and 32 women inside the house around 11 p.m. Sunday. The newspaper said the immigrants were all from Brazil and Central America. Many of the immigrants told investigators reported that had paid as much of $1,500 to be smuggled into the United States. El Universal reported that it took some of...