Honduras Youth movement - 'The Troublemakers' ('Los Necios')

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Ian Diaz talks with Australian community radio from Honduras with reports from Honduras and the efforts of the young people of Honduras to resist the attempts by the Honduras coup regime to crush resistance with a long string of Human Rights violations and intimidation of the FNRP (the Honduras anti-coup regime resistance) that is supported by a majority of the Honduras people.

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Timor - what role for the National Police? Jose Teixeira speaks

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Jose Teixeira, Fretilin parliamentarian talks about the many controversies concerning the PNTL (National Police of East Timor), its role, relationship with the UN police forces, and its shortcomings.

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Timor - The Pires Trial. Rob Wesley Smith

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Angelita Pires, lover of Reynaido, rebel leader who was killed during an alleged assassination attempt against President Jose Ramos Horta. Horta precipitately presumed that Angela was one of the intellectual authors of the alleged attempt, but many disagreed, especially Rob Wesley Smith who knew Angela as a young girl growing up in Darwin as the member of a refugee family. Community radio asked Wes what he felt about the 'exoneration' of Angelita, after her two years virtually under house arrest, in the judgement handed down a few weeks ago.

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Timor Leste - 'Aussie' troops giving lectures?

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Maybe it's the armed forces culture, and maybe it's just political hypocrisy, when Australian government officials deny (as they have done in the past) that Australian peacekeeping forces in Timor Leste are playing a political role (when they are not playing football with the kids - good image, that ... ).
In the last election campaign in Timor Leste Australian troops ripped down Fretilin flags ('accidentally' they said later) and at one point tried to interrupt a cavalcade of the (then) Fretilin Prime Minister's entourage, threatening his security guards at gunpoint.
Australian troops are immune from prosecution under the 'peacekeeping' agreement. The Australian government is allowed 'deniability' of what Australian troops 'do'. But when an Australian military jeep ran down and killed a Timorese pedestrian woman responsibility, and therefore compensation to the family of that woman has been evaded to a degree that resembles denial.
The Australian military presence in Timor Leste has always been hidden behind the Australian government 'deniability' Especially behind that insidious little clause that disallows local prosecution of travesties of justice committed by 'peacekeeping' forces.
This interview is important, Let us all hear, and listen. How responsible are Australian troops in Timor Leste to official government policy?

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Timor - village phone project

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David Rowe talks about a revolutionary concept to provide a cheap (virtually free) digital telephony netwwork for remote communities in Timor Leste

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Honduras and the Rio Summit - Ricardo Salgado

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Ricardo Salgado talks about the significance of the results of the Rio Summit to his own country Honduras. He also elaborates on the growing rate of Human Rights violations under the new 'President' Porfirio Lobo, disguised by a new technique of selective assassinations and terrorisation.

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El Salvadoran anti-mining successful - sort of ...

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Alexis Stamboulis of CISPES brings us the latest developments on the anti-mining actions in El Salvador, that in the past have resulted in deaths and political assassinations and intimidation of local communities. But it seems that a new government in El Salvador may be turning the tables, in spite of pressures from international institutions favoring the multi-national mining corporations.

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Chile election result - Victor Marillanca (English)

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Victor Marillanca, representative of the Chilean Socialist Party in Australia discusses the somewhat paradoxical results of the Chilean elections last January. The Chilean Socialist party lost to a right wing President, yet there is strong representation and recognition by the new government of representatives with strongly held left wing views, which could lead to interesting developments in the relations between Chile and the other Latin American nations.

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Chile election result - Victor Marillanca (Spanish/Espanol)

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Victor Marillanca, represenante del Partido Socialista de Chile en Australia habla sobre los resultos paradojicos de las elecciones de Chile en Enero, con un Presidente derechista, pero unos fuertes representantes de la izquierda - una bancada que puede resultar bien interesante en la region del Cono Sur.

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Rio Summit 2010 - Toni Solo Part 1

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Toni Solo of Tortilla con Sal comments on the historic decisions made in this year's summit of the Group of Rio and the Latin American summit in which the US and Canada were excluded from key meetings. Toni reports from Nicaragua, and what this historic summit means for the Central American region.

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Rio Summit 2010 - Toni Solo Part 2

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Toni Solo of Tortilla con Sal comments on the historic decisions made in this year's summit of the Group of Rio and the Latin American summit in which the US and Canada were excluded from key meetings. Toni reports from Nicaragua, and what this historic summit means for the Central American region.

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Cuban Sex Education (Spanish) - Educacion Sexual en Cuba

44Mb 256 kbps stereo 24 minutes.
Mariela Castro habla con Julie Webb sobre su tarea como directora del Centro de Educacion Sexual en Cuba. En Cuba se han desarollado programas para mejorar los derechos de los 'lesbi-gay' incluso el derecho de convivir legalmente como pareja. Tambien han desarollado programas de salud y educacion y un 'hotline' para los afectados por la SIDA.
(Mariela Castro talks to Julie Webb in this fascinating interview about the latest developments in sexual education in Cuba which recognises the lesbi-gay community and certain rights. Mariela is the Director of the Centre for Sex Education in Cuba. Julie Webb is a correspondent for the on line magazine Scoop).

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