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intelligentaboriginal Media
Radyo intelligentaboriginal News Service for 7.1.2006
On behalf of the Taíno People and Nation represented by the United
Confederation of Taíno People (UCTP), we are urging all our relations
around the world to stand in solidarity with a peaceful protest
against Walt Disney Pictures and their upcoming release of "The
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" for its erroneous
depiction of Caribbean Indigenous Peoples as savage cannibals.
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TO: The Adherents of the Zezta Internazional
FROM: Intergalactic Commission of the EZLN
Receive our greetings, compañeros, as you read this information.
First, I want to remind you how we ourselves see what has happened in the
preliminary meetings to the Intercontinental Encuentro (gathering)
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The United States should act fast to boost a transitional government in Cuba when President
Fidel Castro's rule ends and get advisers on the ground within weeks, a U.S. government report recommends.
The report, which was ordered by
President George W. Bush and is due to be released next week, also recommends a new U.S. "democracy fund" for communist-run Cuba worth $80 million over two years to boost opposition to Castro.
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MEXICO CITY, June 30 — Just two days before a tight national election, a judge has ordered the arrest of former President Luis Echeverría on genocide charges in connection with his role during the massacre of student protesters here in 1968, overturning a lower court ruling. The arrest of Mr. Echeverría, who is 84 and in poor health, came after two failed attempts by a special prosecutor to charge him with the deaths and disappearances of dozens of students and leftist dissidents in the late 1960's and early 1970's, a period known here as the dirty war.
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