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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Hugo Chavez has been accused of using Venezuela's oil riches to meddle in Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Now, Peru's president says the Venezuelan leader may be doing it here by funding militants and anti-poverty centers that preach populist revolution. In recent weeks, Peruvian police have arrested nine people the government alleges are militants bankrolled by Venezuela. And the head of a Congressional investigatory committee accused Venezuela of supplying funds to outreach centers he says agitate against the government. President Alan Garcia supports the ongoing investigation into the centers. Venezuela and allies Bolivia and Ecuador "want...

Bolivia is on fire. The fiery democratic revolutionary babes of Santa Cruz are no more. Now, it’s angry citizens of The Media Luna - four provinces, led by Santa Cruz, fighting to the last man against the brutal expansionary communism of Evo Morales’ Bolivia. This is going well beyond peaceful demonstrations to the first stages of insurgency and maybe war. Revolutionary war. They are fighting tyranny. They’re fighting with axes, fists, and cudgels, in an action that began with a general strike Friday in four provinces against Morales’ effort to rewrite the constitution to maximize his own power. Attendence was...

Pietermaritzburg - Cuban doctors have lodged complaints of gross human rights violations with the Human Rights Commission in regard to the government-to-government agreement between Cuba and South Africa. One of the alleged human rights violations includes the dismissal of seven Limpopo doctors, which was to be opposed in the Johannesburg labour court on Monday with an application against the department of health to honour their contracts. In what the doctors believe is "a revenge attack" after a Special Assignment programme about their plight in December, two Pietermaritzburg specialists were told to expect dismissal letters, while seven Cuban doctors in Limpopo...