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TheStar: "President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that foreign oil companies operating in Venezuela must pay taxes he insists they owe, or else leave the country.
Chavez said that many private oil companies have been evading taxes for years, and they must be charged retroactively with interest on any debts. Officials have said that many declare losses to avoid paying income tax."
This is the reason why Ms Rice and Bush want to oust Chavez. Chavez stands for fairness in trade and the Bush administration sees the whole world as its conquered territory and call that 'free trade'.
No wonder Washington is losing control of the O.A.S.
And it's not only taxes. The South American population working for foreign firms have to work in unhealthy conditions.
Nicanet: "Nemagon is a virulent pesticide that was used on banana plantations in Nicaragua, other countries in Central America, in the Caribbean, and in the Philippines.
A Nicaraguan court ruled on December 11, 2002, that Dow, Shell and Dole had to pay US$490 million to affected banana workers from the Department of Chinandega, but the companies have yet to pay one cent to the plaintiffs."
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TheAustralian: "A former British military official has backed a sensational claim that the Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, was torpedoed by US forces in August 2000.
An official inquest concluded that the disaster - in which all 118 crew drowned in the Barents Sea, 135km off the Russian coast - was caused by an accidental explosion of an onboard torpedo.
But Maurice Stradling, a former torpedo engineer and a key figure in the original investigation, believes a new French documentary, The Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters, should change world opinion on the sinking.
'On the balance of probabilities, the Kursk was sunk by an American MK-48 torpedo,' said Mr Stradling, formerly a senior member of the British Defence Ministry.
The new explanation for the Kursk's downing is based on film footage of a hole in the side of the vessel, and evidence placing US submarines in the area at the time it was sunk.
The French film shows stills of the Kursk raised above the water after being salvaged, with a precise circular hole in its right side. The hole clearly bends inwards, consistent with an attack from outside the submarine.
A US military source in the documentary declares the hole to be the trademark evidence of an American MK-48 torpedo, which is made to melt cleanly through steel sheet due to a mechanism at its tip that combusts copper."
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