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Oil rich Venezuela scared of the same fate as Iraq, is planning some extreme measures to confront United States in case it is attacked. Venezuela is fast spreading arms, money and military training tactics to left-wing groups in Ecuador and six other Latin American countries. According to some international think tanks, the plan is to rage insurgency from outside Venezuela in case Venezuela is attacked and occupied. According to media sources, left-wing groups in Ecuador and six other Latin American countries have received training in urban guerrilla war tactics from Venezuela this year, The Miami Herald reported Oct. 22, citing...

Millionaire rock and roller, Carlos Santana, was immensely proud of the elegant Che Guevara shirt he wore to the last Academy Awards. (For details see Che at the Oscars) But by wearing the face of a mass-murderer on his torso Mr Santana provoked nary a raised eyebrow, a snide comment, nor a peep of protest from the Mainstream Media. Well, imagine Andy Garcia or Gloria Estefan wearing an elegantly embroidered Augusto Pinochet (who killed far fewer than Che) T-shirt to the Oscars or Grammys. Imagine the squawking.

Victor Cruz, also known as Hugo Hernandez, also said in State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens that some of the men physically fought to be the first to rape the woman after they dragged her to a weeded area. < SNIP > Justice Randall Eng told the defendant he would sentence him on Jan. 15 to between 20 to 23 years in prison so long as he testifies against his co-defendants, if called upon by prosecutors to do so. Cruz said he, Luis Carmona, 22, Armando Juvenal, 21, and Jose Hernandez and Carlos Rodriguez, both 23, allegedly attacked a 38-year-old...