Some people imagine that "Venezuela is a dictatorship that people are fleeing". The reality is very different: a democracy, where the people have elected socialist governments in recent years, ensuring less poverty, more human rights, & more people coming

The guns were seized from prisoners, & people arrested for violent crimes. In polls, Venezuelans say crime/insecurity is the most serious issue affecting Venezuela. Govt stats show that homicides rose from 1999-2007, but with new reforms, are now dropping

We have an opportunity to make sure the genocide that continues in Darfur (a western province of Sudan) is top-of-mind during President Obama's upcoming trip to China. China is Sudan's largest trading partner and most important international backer.

To regain control of its "backyard," the U.S. is increasingly intervening in Latin America: U.S. support for the recent military coup in Honduras, destabilisation of Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador & Paraguay, & a massive U.S. military build up in the region.

Official U.S. documents say a new deal with Colombia will allow the U.S. to fight "anti-US governments" in South America. Chavez responded: "Don't make the mistake, President Obama, of ordering an overt aggression against Venezuela utilizing Colombia."

6,000 police & soldiers occupied Central Light & Power Company of Mexico offices in October. Rightwing President Felipe Calderon then illegally liquidated the company & its union, the SME, leaving 44,000 workers unemployed. Huge demonstrations - join us!

The accord (signed on October 30 to end the coup conflict) has failed, because coup leader Micheletti refuses to accept the accord's condition that democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya be reinstated. The people of Honduras continue the struggle!

Despite the supposed withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, more than 130,000 US soldiers remain -- similar to the size of the US contingent when the invasion began in 2003. Torture is routine in government detention centres. Get U.S. troops out of Iraq now!!!

Controversy has surrounded the reforestation project in the park which is jointly run by the Netherlands-based FACE Foundation and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and was started with a view to generating carbon credits.

The Iranian Supreme Leader's representative in Britain has told Muslim servicemen and women to quit the Armed Forces, saying that their involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is forbidden by Islam.