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President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, center, talks to supporters before a lecture to socialists and communists party members at in the northeastern city of Recife, Brazil,Saturday, April 26, 2003. Chavez is on his last day of visit to Brazil, after he met with Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Violent Clash Outside The Cuban Embassy in Paris***A cameraman from Televisión Española (TVE) as well as two directors from Reporters Without Frontiers (RWF) are among the injured in yesterday's confrontation outside the Cuban Embassy in Paris, when members of the security detail of said Embassy attacked a group of protesters gathered there to deliver a letter to Cuban Embassador Eumelio Caballero, protesting the recent wave of oppression set loose in the island.

"The Ambassador did not want to accept the letter. They didn't even open the gates. Then, some members of Reporters Without Frontiers chained themselves to the fence', said Cuban author Zoe Valdés, currently residing in Paris.

In her telephone interview with El Nuevo Herald, Valdés indicated that Embassy personnel "who are obviously not diplomats, but rather oppressors", exited the Embassy building carrying hammers and sledgehammers to break the protesters chains, whose hands and harms they beat, as well as striking several observers standing near by.

1 posted on 04/27/2003 12:17:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Those "Doctors" that Fidel keeps sending out are nothing more than agents. The Venezuelan security forces have Cuban agents infiltrated into them and Chavez is said to have Cuban bodyguards surrounding him.

2 posted on 04/27/2003 12:30:57 AM PDT by FreeManWhoCan (Speech on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of Announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative)

To: William Wallace; Prodigal Daughter; afraidfortherepublic; JohnHuang2; Budge; A Citizen Reporter; ...

World support is unraveling for Fidel.

4 posted on 04/27/2003 7:45:18 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (When the elephants are stampeding, don't worry about the pissants.)

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sat Apr 26, 9:59 AM ET

Demonstrators wave Cuban and Venezuelan flags and holding a banner reading 'Liberty for the Cuban people. No more wars. I love Cuba,' as they shout slogans against Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites), in central Madrid April 26, 2003 during a protest against the April 11 execution of three men who commandeered a Havana commuter ferry in a bid to reach U.S. soil. Castro defended the firing squad executions as a deterrent to a mass exodus that he said the United States was seeking to provoke in communist-run Cuba. REUTERS/Andrea Comas

7 posted on 04/27/2003 7:47:25 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (When the elephants are stampeding, don't worry about the pissants.)

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sat Apr 26,10:09 AM ET

A demonstrator holds up a banner in central Madrid April 26, 2003, during a protest against the April 11 execution of three men who commandeered a Havana commuter ferry in a bid to reach U.S. soil. Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) defended the firing squad executions as a deterrent to a mass exodus that he said the United States was seeking to provoke in communist-run Cuba. The executions, which followed the arrests of 75 dissidents in the worst political repression in Cuba in decades, prompted an outpouring of criticism worldwide and lost Castro some close friends among left-wing intellectuals, such as Portuguese Nobel prize winning writer Jose Saramago and Uruguayan journalist and author Eduardo Galeano. REUTERS/Andrea Comas

8 posted on 04/27/2003 7:48:26 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (When the elephants are stampeding, don't worry about the pissants.)

To: Cincinatus' Wife; Luis Gonzalez; Grampa Dave

Fidel y Hugo side by side: one shot, two kills.

16 posted on 04/27/2003 4:59:22 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

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