Forty four years ago today, 1500 Cuban members of La Brigada 2506 were left to die at Bahia de Cochinos, the Bay of Pigs. They were betrayed by President John Kennedy. Kennedy had promised air support for the invasion, but reneged on his word. Grayston Lynch, the CIA agent who fired the first [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2005 by pwyll
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From Reuters UK
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Buy and sell, wheel and deal, but don’t get rich.
That’s the advice to businessmen from Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, a self-proclaimed revolutionary who wants to develop a new form of socialism to fight poverty in the world’s No. 5 oil exporter.
“Being rich is bad, it’s bad. People who [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2005 by pwyll
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