mexican drug war guerillas stand

Three of Mexico’s border cities have been rocked by riots. Hundreds of protesters taking to the streets demand the Mexican army leave their towns.
Texas will receive 250 of the 1,200 troops being deployed to the border. The guardsmen are being trained for duty along the U.S. – Mexico border in Texas.
Another 224 troops will [...]

venezuela's chavez is elite puppet

“That’s an incredible surge,” Adrian Aguirre, an economist at Caracas-based Bancaribe SA, said in a telephone interview. “The fact that food prices rose by more than 11 percent is something we’ve never seen in the last decade.”

Consumer prices rose 5.2 percent in April from March, according to the central bank’s benchmark Caracas price index, released [...]

haiti earthquake

“There must be thousands of people dead.”

The West (this includes Canada & at least the USA) helped overthrow Haiti’s democratically elected government because their President wanted to actually help the people get out of poverty. Then many Western nations went along with the US in destroying the entire economy by flooding Haiti with American [...]

sucre alba new currency

“Venezuela’s decision to devalue the Bolivar culminates an event that the market has been anticipating for a long time,” said Walter Molano, an analyst at BCP Securities. “It helps alleviate the country’s fiscal woes and puts it on a sounder macroeconomic footing.”

The currency devaluation that Venezula implemented allows them to sustain the nominal value of [...]

viva fidel

“The energy situation we face is critical and if we do not adopt extreme measures we will have to revert to planned blackouts affecting the population,” said a recently circulated message from the Council of Ministers.

Cuba orders extreme measures to cut energy use
By Marc Frank
HAVANA, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Cuba has ordered all state enterprises [...]

woman showering

“Some people sing in the shower, in the shower half an hour. No kids, three minutes is more than enough. I’ve counted, three minutes, and I don’t stink,” Chavez said.

Venezuela has suffered several serious breakdowns in the past year due to the rapid growth of demand and under investment, which has been compounded by lower [...]

argentina riot

Poor countries are still reeling from the impact of high grain prices, which doubled at the height of the food crisis. Although prices have declined somewhat in real terms, they remain 17 percent higher than two years ago, according to the FAO report.
The FAO report said that the recession was still growing, but it was [...]

Members of the Ecuadoran Army

by Gerald Celente
Recently by Gerald Celente: The 2nd American Revolution
Autumn 2012, the “Greatest Depression” has spread worldwide. Billions are unemployed, homeless and desperate. Countries bankrupt, trade pacts broken, tariffs rise, borders close.
Protectionist, nationalist and anti-globalization movements have moved out of the margins and into the mainstream. Immigrants brought in during boom times – blamed for [...]

dollar burning

Leftist Latin American leaders agreed here on the creation of a regional currency, the Sucre, aimed at scaling back the use of the US dollar.

Local currencies, which were once very popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s when federal funds were insufficient in number, are experiencing a renaissance in North America, but for new [...]


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