Chavez threatens to expropriate steel maker Sidor Kansas City Star Howard Yanes Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez talks at summit for the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Chavez met with Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, Cuba's Vice President Carlos Lage and Bolivia's Presi...
PROFNET EXPERT ALERTS: 2008 Commencement Speakers Insurance Newsnet With the 2008 commencement season approaching, we thought you might find helpful the following list of speakers who will be addressing graduates at 90 of our member institutions: | 1. ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: President ROBERT A. SCOTT will deliver the com...
Cuba walks tightrope of reforms The Boston Globe | HAVANA - In a campaign that bears much similarity to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's 1980s appeal for glasnost, President Raul Castro has been urging the public to investigate social shortcomings, denounce them, and propose improvements. | And in...
Castro extends powers to party functionaries The Miami Herald Cuba on Monday ended a nearly two-year provisional period, which began when Fidel Castro fell ill in July 2006. | Cuban leader Raúl Castro has put an end to his country's nearly two-year ''provisional'' period, increasing the powers of old fun...
Chavez threatens to expropriate steel maker Sidor Kansas City Star Howard Yanes Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez talks at summit for the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Chavez met with Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, Cub...
Tories insist old ruling justifies election spending Globe and Mail | Conservatives say 1997 report by former chief electoral officer validates use of so-called 'in-and-out' campaign advertising scheme ...Read the full article | This conversation is semi-moderated What is moderation? | How do I report a comment? Post...
A Policy of Heartlessness CounterPunch Haiti briefly entered the U.S. news last week, thanks to a new round of protests in that much-beleagured land. Food riots throughout Haiti were reported as part of a world-wide wave of uprisings responding to increasing food prices (brought on by var...
Cubans line up for cell phone service The Boston Globe | HAVANA—Lines stretched for blocks outside phone stores Monday as ordinary Cubans were allowed to sign up for cellular phone service for the first time. | The contracts cost about US$120 (euro76) to activate -- half a year's wages on the avera...
Cuba to allow mobile phones Al Jazeera Cuba's goverment is to permit the unrestricted use of mobile telephones for the first time. | The Cuban telecommunications monopoly ETECSA said it would begin a mobile phone service for the general public in the next few days, according to a statemen...
Cubans to be allowed cell phones Globe and Mail | President Raul Castro's government said Friday it is allowing cellphones for ordinary Cubans, a luxury previously reserved for those who worked for foreign firms or held key posts with the state. | It was the first official announcement of the lift...
New universities a smokescreen Canada Dot Com | Gordon Campbell's decision to snap his fingers and magically convert five colleges into full-fledged universities is a clever public-relations move, but it means squat to post-secondary schools having their budgets slashed by the government. | The highly hyped announcements, made in front of partisan groups complete with cascading confetti for th...
Dominican Republic Ups Food Subsidies CBS News The Dominican Republic has expanded subsidies on basic food staples to maintain calm after deadly food riots recently struck neighboring Haiti. | Trucks loaded with milk, chicken, eggs and other food staples have been rumbling across the Caribbean nation, where almost half of 9.5 million residents live in poverty. | The subsidized food is on averag...
