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Public Meeting on Venezuela

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Wednesday February 02, 2005 13:44

by LASC - Latin America Solidarity Centre

info at lasc dot ie

5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2

01 6760435

Richard Gott, author and the first journalist to view Che Guevara's body to speak in Dublin

Lasc is holding a public meeting-

"Venezuela, the Bolivarian Revolution"
at 8 p.m.
on Friday 4th February
in the ATG&WU Hall

The speakers will be

Richard Gott, English journalist,
Author of "In the Shadow of The Liberator, Hugo Chavez and the
transformation of Venezuela"

Ricardo Galindez,
Venezuelan trade unionist,representative of U.N.T.
the National Union of Workers of Venezuela

Michael McCaughan, Irish Journalist
Author of "the Battle for Venezuela"

Finian McGrath, T.D.

Richard Gott is the much-heralded author of In the Shadow of the Liberator: Hugo Chavez and the Transformation of Venezuela and, more recently, of a book called Cuba: A New History. He has worked for The Guardian newspaper as a freelance journalist for many decades and it was precisely working for The Guardian that took him to Bolivia in 1967 and the events surrounding the capture and murder of Che Guevara that he recounts here: http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/especiales/che.htm
Gott was the first journalist to view the body of Che.

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US slams Russia for Venezuela arms sales

by redjade

Sat Feb 12, 2005 13:22

The US State Department has criticized Russia over plans to sell light weapons to Venezuela, expressing concerns that the Russian armaments could end up in the hands of militants in neighboring Colombia. US State Department spokesman Adam Ereli on Thursday said Washington was “extremely troubled by Venezuelan arms purchases from Russia”, and that the weapons could have a “destabilizing effect on the hemisphere”. Ereli said the US had already raised the issue with Russia several times. Russia reportedly plans to sell Venezuela 40 MiG jet fighters and more than 100’000 AK-47 assault rifles. Ereli said Washington was concerned about how Venezuela would secure the new armaments as well as the thousands of old rifles they would replace, adding that Venezuela should have consulted its neighbors about such a large arms purchase.

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=10758

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