I N T E R N A T I O N A L

• TRAMPLED RIGHTS
Exemplary instructors?
March.30.10
"THIS White House may not have an immigration program but it does have a plan: more raids, more deportations and more suffering for our community, that’s why we’re here." That was the opinion of Luis Gutierrez, legislator for Illinois, in the heat of the march in Washington on March 14.

• Nobel Physics laureate opposes anti-Cuba campaign
March.30.10
RUSSIAN scientist Zhores Alfiorov, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics, rejected the latest anti-Cuba campaign orchestrated by international right-wing forces and is demanding respect for the Cuban government’s sovereign decisions.

• Esteban Lazo attends swearing in of Namibian president
March.22.10
WINDHOEK, March 21.—Vice President Esteban Lazo took part this morning in the central activity for the 20th anniversary of Namibian Independence, which coincided with the swearing in of Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba as president of this sister country. The Cuban leader conversed with all the African heads of state and government, as well as former presidents and public figures from that continent who were present at the celebrations as guests. Also sworn in during the event were Prime Minister Nahas Angula and Deputy Prime Minister Marco Hausiku.

• Families of Guantanamo detainees want the truth about "suicides"
March.19.10
WASHINGTON, March 18.— The families of men who died in 2006 in the prison located on the illegal Guantanamo Bay Naval Base – whose deaths the U.S. army presented as suicides – have petitioned the courts to reconsider their lawsuit, given new testimony by army officers who were on the base when those events occurred, the AFP reported on Thursday.

• TRUNCATED RIGHTS
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March.16.10
IN early March, the tribunal created by the philosopher Bertrand Russell and named after him met in Barcelona. It was originally constituted to judge the war crimes committed in Vietnam, and subsequently in Latin America, and other lamentable situations around the world. This time, the Russell Tribunal issued a ruling on the European Union, finding it guilty of failing to influence Israel in order to prevent the launch of Operation Cast Lead which, from December 2008 to January 2009, caused the deaths of 1,412 Palestinians and destroyed the scant infrastructure of the Gaza Strip.

• 23 million jobless in Europe
March.11.10
BRUSSELS, Belgium.— Unemployment in the European Union has continued to rise in the first part of 2010, with 9.6% of the economically active population — the equivalent of 23 million people — now jobless, the highest level since 2000, according to the European Community’s statistics office Eurostat.

• The practice of torture by the United States is a negative influence on the world
March.11.10
GENEVA, March 10.—The reaction of the United States and its allies to the September 11, 2001 attacks to intensify the use of torture in their investigations has had a highly negative influence on the rest of the world, stated Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture.

• Lincoln Díaz-Balart and Mel Martínez tried to silence corruption witness
February.26.10
"THEY wanted to silence" Jorge de Castro Font, the Puerto Rican politician convicted of corruption, to avoid the involvement of Republican Party figures such as Cuban-Americans Lincoln Díaz-Balart and Melquíades "Mel" Martinez, according to the Primera Hora newspaper, which reported how the former senator received an offer of no prosecution in exchange for his collaboration.

• The shamelessness of the United States government
February.26.10
ONE out of every four prisoners in the world is in a U.S. penitentiary. The composition of these prisoners is profoundly racist: one out of every 15 black adults is incarcerated; one out of every 9 is aged 20-34 years; and one out of every 36 Hispanics. Two-thirds of those serving life sentences are African Americans or Latinos, and in the case of New York state, only 16.3% of prisoners are white.

• Senator Bob Menéndez, caught red-handed
February.16.10
DEMOCRATIC Senator Robert "Bob" Menendez, one of the most steadfast representatives of the Cuban-American mafia in Congress, was caught red-handed: it has just been revealed that he intervened with the Federal Reserve for a failing bank whose top executives are major contributors to his campaign fund.

• Leonard Peltier and the notorious perversity of USA-style justice
February.5.10
TWO hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s chief justice, John Marshall, ruled that the legal relationship of the land’s original inhabitants with the United States was not one of equals, but of "wardship," given that it dealt with people "completely lacking in civil abilities."

• World unemployment to remain at record levels in 2010
January.27.10
UNITED NATIONS - The number of jobless worldwide this year is likely to remain around 2009's record levels, with unemployment edging higher in rich countries, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday.

• Haitians describe landing of yanki Marines as occupation
January.20.10
Hundreds of Haitians watched with a mixture of resignation and anger on Tuesday as several helicopters landed U.S. troops in the grounds of the Presidential Palace, an act considered by many Haitians as a loss of sovereignty, the AFP reported

With the Cuban doctors in Haiti: January 17
• The worst tragedy is not being able to do more
January.7.10
The little boy, with a drip attached to his hand — although at that stage it wasn’t helping him very much — couldn’t stop trembling. The fluid that perhaps in other circumstances would give him some strength was not passing through his collapsed veins. Lying on a piece of cardboard, his life was ebbing away while, at his feet, a Cuban doctor lamented not being able to do more

• Three children die every day in Afghanistan
January.7.10
KABUL, January 6. – At least three children die every day in Afghanistan, victims of attacks, bombings, and armed conflicts between the insurgency and the U.S and NATO occupying forces, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) reported today.

• Bankruptcies up by 32% in the United States
January.6.10
THE number of American citizens and businesses submitting bankruptcy claims rose rapidly by 32% last year.

• The immigrants’ long march
January.5.10
ON January 1, Latin American immigrant students in the United States set off on the "Trail of Dreams," a walk of almost 2,500 kilometers from Miami to Washington DC, for the dignity of their community, with the demand of immigration reforms to end the separation of families, deportations and subhuman living conditions in the shadows for more than 12 million undocumented immigrants.