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High Five, Barack.. or even just the Cuban Five
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 7:34 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Barack Obama marked his first week in office by ordering the closing down of Guantanamo prison camp. A quick glance in this gift-horse’s mouth suggests anyone with a memory longer than the last election campaign may not be as well-rewarded as they are long ... More >>
Uh! Ah! La Enmienda Va!
Monday, 22 December 2008, 10:36 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
Or for the non-Spanish-speakers, Uh! Ah! The Amendment is coming! Article 230 of the Venezuelan Constitution, which limits the presidency to two six-year terms, is proposed to be amended to remove the words "... for two terms only, " allowing presidential ... More >>
All I want for Xmas is..............
Monday, 22 December 2008, 10:12 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
for the United States to... 1. lift the crippling economic blockade that is guaranteeing a miserable Christmas for millions of Cubans suffering food shortages and wretched living conditions following the series of cyclones that devastated Cuba earlier this ... More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Sore Winners the Losers
Monday, 15 December 2008, 11:36 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
Judging by their behaviour since the regional and municipal elections on 23 November, the only constitution the Venezuelan opposition seems to understand is that of itself – ignorance and thuggery. Whether their ignorance stems from their inability to ... More >>
Venezuela – Democracy in Action
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 10:08 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
In a country where the electoral rules strictly honour and serve the rights of the people rather than the other way around, polling booths didn't close until almost midnight, so that everyone waiting in a queue could exercise their Constitutional ... More >>
Political Pornography – New Dirty War in Venezuela
Monday, 24 November 2008, 10:02 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
It is not stretching a point to call the latest Venezuelan rightwing salvo political pornography. In a last-ditch attempt to resist the tsunami of support for PSUV candidates, a million copies of a video produced by an organisation called SYNERGIA began circulating ... More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Not So Crackers After All
Monday, 17 November 2008, 11:30 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
A view from the top, Altamira, the first of the middle class suburbs heading east. Saturday afternoon I went to a free jazz concert at La Estancia, a large ex-hacienda in this suburb later converted to a private park and venue, with entry fees. The ... More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Caracas is Crackers!!
Monday, 17 November 2008, 10:40 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
Where else could you find workers protesting outside the Presidential Palace, not against the Government but against big business and its bosses??!! Monday saw Cocacola workers staking out Miraflores Palace in the hope of getting a minute of President ... More >>
H. Rights Accompanier Raped and Murdered in Oaxaca
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 8:25 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
The body of United States citizen Marcella "Sali" Grace was found on September 24 in a deserted cabin 20 minutes from the village of San José del Pacífico, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. She had been raped, brutally beaten, and killed. A villager ... More >>
The Blockade and Cuban Hurricane Relief
Monday, 22 September 2008, 11:33 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
It's official – Cuba has suffered $5 billion dollars worth of damage from hurricanes Gustav and Ike, according to both Cuban government sources and the United Nations. What's the big deal - that's only about a nineteenth of the losses they've suffered ... More >>
Chavez has expelled the US ambassador to Venezuela
Friday, 12 September 2008, 6:08 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez yesterday gave the US ambassador to Venezuela, Patrick Duddy, 72 hours to leave Venezuelan soil, and has withdrawn Venezuela's Ambassador to the US, Bernardo Álvarez. Announcing the measures in Puerto Cabello yesterday, ... More >>
Bolivian government denounces coup attempt
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 7:47 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
"We are strong enough to split the country," threatens Bolivian right-wing extremist Oscar Urenda, as his henchmen attack public offices in Santa Cruz and the US Ambassador is asked to leave the country. More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Yikes
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 12:03 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
Ike has sliced through Cuba like the Grim Reaper's scythe, savaging crops desperately-needed to feed the scores of thousands left homeless and hungry by his siblings Gustav and Hanna. This terrible trio, two category fours and a tropical storm all within eight ... More >>
4th Regional Conference for Solidarity with Cuba
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 9:19 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
If there was ever any doubt about the universality of the condemnation of the illegal economic blockade of Cuba, it was surely laid to rest in Sri Lanka this weekend. More >>
FIVE reasons to stay awake
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 12:49 am | Julie Webb-Pullman
The US Court of Appeals 11th Circuit in Atlanta is busily building precedents that will no doubt be VERY useful. Because one of the things that the latest Atlanta Appeal ruling in the case of the Cuban Five makes very clear is that international territory, ... More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Chiapas - Mexico's Tibet
Saturday, 12 April 2008, 3:31 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
On 10 April, a petition signed by more than 30 New Zealanders was delivered to the Mexican Ambassador to New Zealand, Angélica Arce, declaiming ongoing human rights abuses of indigenous Mexicans, impunity for the perpetrators, and marking the 89th ... More >>
Ask Mary Xmas: An Advice Column For The Season
Friday, 16 November 2007, 5:50 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
Stressing over what to buy, make or send your loved ones this Christmas? Who to invite for Christmas Dinner? Where to go for your holidays? Relax!! Ask Mary Xmas in our new weekly column!! Send email to MaryXmas@scoop.co.nz More >>
Terror Delegation To See Michael Cullen Doesn't
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 3:15 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
A delegation of around 20 turned up this afternoon at Parliament intending to deliver a letter to the Attorney General Michael Cullen from a large number of concerned New Zealanders . The letter is about the 12 terror accused and asks Dr Cullen to ... More >>
Julie Webb-Pullman: Our Man from Havana
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 2:43 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
José Luis Robaina Garcia, whose last posting was as Minister Counsellor in the Cuban Embassy in the People's Republic of China, presented his credentials to the Governor-General, Hon. Anand Satyanand, at Government House last Thursday. More >>
Urewera 17 Profile: Emily Bailey
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 7:56 pm | Julie Webb-Pullman
It wasn’t rain falling on the leaves that woke Emily Bailey around 6.30am Monday 15th, but burly armed police stumbling and falling down the bank as they surrounded and unceremoniously dragged her and her companion from their tent in its quiet bush ... More >>
