[New-imc] Re: [IMC-Process] in support of the ANMCLA Venezuela IMC proposal

[Alberto M. Giordano]

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>Hi Al,
>thank you for such an inspiring message!

And thanks for your reply, Adriana.

I will read the links you sent me and comment once I've digested them.

Meanwhile, here is a copy of our Global Alert sent out tonight about the 
attacks on the Community Media in Venezuela and launching an International 
Dialogue about the role of "press freedom" organizations.

It appears online at:

http://www.narconews.com/communitymedia1.html

En español:

http://www.narconews.com/medioscomunitarios1.html

Tonight we also publish three "Open Letters" to the wealthiest "press 
freedom" organizations informing them of journalists under attack in 
Venezuela and taking them to task for their betrayal of their own missions 
in failing to protect Community Media journalists and, specifically, 
IndyMedia journalists in recent years as well:

Open Letter to Committee to Protect Journalists:

http://www.narconews.com/cpjletter1.html

Open Letter to Inter-American Press Association:

http://www.narconews.com/iapaletter1.html

Open Letter to Reporters Without Borders:

http://www.narconews.com/letterwithoutborders1.html

Here is our alert sent out tonight, with the text of Part I in our series.

salud y abrazo,

Al Giordano

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July 29, 2002
Please Distribute Widely

Dear Colleagues,

When Narco News has been threatened, you have gone into battle and kept us 
alive. This solidarity from readers is our greatest weapon, and today we ask 
you to wield it on behalf of some of our most valiant colleagues.

Today, we must all come to the aid of the Community Media journalists of 
Venezuela, three of whom were illegally arrested and jailed recently by 
rogue pro-coup police factions who continue to oppose the democratic will of 
the people.

Part I of our series on the Community Media of Venezuela – who, as you will 
read – have taught us all new ways to fight against a corrupted commercial 
media, begins today:

http://www.narconews.com/communitymedia1.html

And, in Spanish:

http://www.narconews.com/medioscomunitarios1.html

As I have traveled across our América reporting on the drug war and 
democracy, I have seen and reported on much wonderful work by so many allies 
who – it can no longer be denied – are resurrecting the dream of Simón 
Bolívar for a united América against impositions – like the US-imposed “war 
on drugs” – from above.

None of this fast progress we are making would have been possible if not for 
the Community Media journalists of Venezuela – already broadcasting from 
nine non-profit TV stations and sixteen non-profit radio stations – who have 
collapsed the illusory power of the corrupted Commercial Media to impose 
coups d’etat. The recent democratic advances in Bolivia, Perú, Argentina, 
Paraguay, Brazil and throughout our América are a direct result of the work 
our colleagues in Venezuela have pioneered.

Today we ask you to join in the international campaign to FREE NICOLÁS 
RIVERA and other authentic journalists from prison and persecution.

We also turn the Narco News global spotlight on the three wealthiest “press 
freedom” organizations, who have left these journalists in Venezuela 
undefended and have thus betrayed their own stated missions: The New 
York-based Committee to Protect Journalists; the Miami-based Inter-American 
Press Association and Reporters Without Borders in Paris.

The hour has come to launch an International Dialogue on “The Role of Press 
Freedom Organizations.”

How can you participate?

1.	Please post Part I of our series on the media in Venezuela to your local 
IndyMedia pages and any other non-commercial media, including your own 
website. The full text to that article appears attached to this email and 
also at http://www.narconews.com/communitymedia1.html

2.	We will now send you, under separate cover, the text of our three “OPEN 
LETTERS” to the directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters 
Without Borders and the Inter-American Press Association. Please post them 
and email them, as well, as far and wide as possible. Those letters appear 
online and linked from Part I of our series.

3.	Please contact these organizations at each of the email addresses 
provided with the letters, along with copies of your correspondence to the 
Immedia Working Group at salonchingon at hotmail.com - Urge them to come to the 
defense of Nicolás Rivera and the other persecuted journalists in 
Venezuela’s Community Media movement and, in the case of two of those 
organizations, to answer, honestly and in full, the public questions posed 
to them by Narco News.

4.	IF YOU HOST A RADIO SHOW: Please invite the spokespersons from these 
three simulating “press freedom” organizations to discuss the issues 
outlined by the Narco News series. Of course, we will also make ourselves 
available to discuss these matters live on the air with these organizations, 
or to debate an empty chair if need be. Again, send all radio interview 
requests to: salonchingon at hotmail.com

5.	IF YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK, MIAMI OR PARIS, where these “press freedom” 
organizations are located, please consider local actions that you might 
undertake autonomously – and creatively! – to make these organizations live 
up to their rhetoric. Their silence has placed journalists in danger and 
their behavior is thus absolutely unacceptable.

6.	IF YOU CAN TRANSLATE - ENGLISH TO FRENCH - OR ENGLISH TO SPANISH – OR 
SPANISH TO ENGLISH - rapidly and accurately (without using those dangblasted 
Internet “translation machines”), please let me know if you are available to 
help in translating some key documents this week related to this Authentic 
Press Freedom campaign. Our Narco News Team is right now reporting on 
fast-breaking news from Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay and 
Mexico – when it rains it pours, América! – and is, as a result, a bit 
over-extended. Translation services are needed this week. Send 
translation-related correspondence directly to me at narconews at hotmail.com

Thank you, in advance, for coming to the aid of Nicolás Rivera and other 
journalists at risk from the Community Media movement. We – you and Narco 
News together – have the power to get our colleagues out of prison and 
change the history of our América… again!

The text of Part I of our series is posted below. Please send it and publish 
it far and wide. And please do the same with the three “OPEN LETTERS” to 
“press freedom” organizations who have shirked their self-proclaimed duties 
and have cynically left authentic journalists at risk.

http://www.narconews.com/

“Once more into the breach, dear friends!”

…from somewhere in a country called América,

Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews at hotmail.com

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Text of Part I of the Narco News White Paper Reported From Venezuela:

http://www.narconews.com/communitymedia1.html

Free Nicolás Rivera:
Journalist in Jail

Community Media, the Voice of the
Venezuelan People, Under Siege

Narco News Opens an International Dialogue
About the Role of "Press Freedom" Organizations

Part I of a Series
Immedia Summer 2002

By Al Giordano

On April 11th in downtown Caracas, Radio Perola reporter Nicolás Rivera, 26, 
was doing his job: reporting on two conflicting demonstrations when the 
attempted assassination of a democratic government - known as a coup d'etat 
- began in his country of Venezuela.

Nicolás heard the bangs of sniper gunfire from the rooftops of a hotel and 
various office buildings as 18 civilians from both sides of the nation's 
political divide were killed and more than 150 were wounded. The violence, 
pre-planned by the coup plotters, became the pretext by which military 
generals then placed the elected president of the nation under arrest and 
installed an oilman in his place. Nicolás collected the facts and returned 
to Radio Perola's studios to report the news of the coup d'etat underway. He 
worked around the clock to get the facts out while the commercial media - as 
is now widely recognized and undisputed - either made up knowingly false 
accounts - "Chávez Resigned!" - or failed to report anything at all.

After the shooting began, authorities of the government of President Hugo 
Chávez immediately apprehended some of the rooftop snipers who had lit the 
fuse to the violence. But after Chávez himself was placed into custody later 
that day by military generals, the rooftop assassins, whose identities are 
still unknown, were incredulously set free by the dictatorship of Pedro 
Carmona - and this tells us everything about which side hired those snipers 
- as the dictator-for-a-day Carmona simultaneously abolished the Congress, 
the Supreme Court and the Constitution. For a more detailed history of these 
events, in which the Venezuelan people overthrew the U.S.-sponsored 
dictatorship within three days and changed the history of our América, see 
"Three Days that Shook the Media," (Narco News, April 18, 2002: 
http://www.narconews.com/threedays.html ).

The following day, April 12th, as Nicolás was reporting the facts from Radio 
Perola - one of the the non-profit Community Radio and TV Stations that were 
legalized under the Venezuelan Constitution of 1999 - the cops of Carmona's 
dictatorship busted down the door to the radio station and grabbed him. The 
police beat Nicolás, handcuffed him, and beat him some more. They 
blindfolded him, dragged him to a vehicle, and beat him even more. Then, 
these terrorists in uniform dragged him to his house where his wife and two 
children were present.

His wife, Tibisay de Vivera, 25, tells Narco News what happened next: "The 
police grabbed me by the hair and threw me to the floor. They beat me, while 
they tortured Nicolás, in front of our children. They said they were going 
to kill us. They planted a bag of bullets on Nicolás and obligated me to 
sign a statement they had already written or they would kill our children, 
two and three years old."

Nicolás was then dragged, handcuffed, off to prison. "On Sunday, the 14th, 
when Chávez returned, Nicolás was released. His face was disfigured. He had 
been tortured. And he had not been fed for two days."

And yet, not a single international "press freedom" organization came to 
this journalist's aid or said a word about the case.


A Savage Wave of Attacks

There has been a savage wave of attacks against Venezuela's Community Media 
journalists ever since the April coup attempt. Those attacks, in the past 
month, have increased.

And those self-proclaimed international defenders of press freedom like the 
"Committee to Protect Journalists" in New York, the "Inter-American Press 
Association" in Miami and the Paris-based "Reporters Without Borders" have 
remained suspiciously silent over every single attack on Community Media by 
pro-coup forces within rogue police forces and by agents of the discredited 
commercial media in Venezuela.

As part of this series, we will report the disturbing facts about these 
three international organizations, their financial backers, their "selective 
enforcement" favoring journalists of certain political persuasions over 
others, and their negligence regarding the real press freedom story in 
Venezuela.

But first, and more importantly, we'll report the news that these 
organizations, apparently, don't want you to know: that somewhere in a 
country called América, there is a non-profit independent media - TV, radio, 
print and Internet - that has won the hearts and minds of a public that, 
wisely, no longer trusts the commercial media.

The Community Media movement in Venezuela, managed democratically and on a 
local level by citizen volunteers, and strictly non-profit, is now in direct 
competition with what used to be known as the mass media, because the masses 
have changed the channel.

In the capital city alone, the populace is tuned in to seven Community radio 
stations: Radio Perola, Radio Senderos ("Paths"), Radio Free Catia, Radio 
Alí Primera (named after the late radical folksinger of the Bolivarian 
revolution), Radio Rebelde ("Rebel"), Radio Comunitaria de La Vega, and 
Radio Alternativa. The citizens in the capital also have two TV stations of 
their own: Catia TV-e and Televisora of Southeast Caracas.

In the provinces, there is Radio CRP Miranda, TV Petare Mianda, Teletambores 
("TV Drums"). Aragua, TV Rubio Táchira, TVC Rubio, Channel Z Zulia, Radio 
Miranda Zulia, TV Tarmas Vargas, Radio Huayra Vargas, Radio Tarmeña Vargas, 
Radio Chuspa Vargas, TV Michelena, Radio The Voice of Guaicaipuro Miranda, 
Radio Yoraco Miranda, Radio San Diego Miranda, Radio Salvemos la Montaña 
("We Save the Mountain") Miranda, Radio Free Tamunangue Lara... All in all, 
the country now boasts nine Community TV stations and 16 Community radio 
stations, all of them non-profit, all of them run by citizens, all of them 
churning out better and more accurate journalism than the discredited 
commercial media in this country, all 25 of them popular because they are 
here not to sell products to the people but, rather, as tools for the 
people's voice to be heard.

Nowhere on earth has a non-profit Community Media captured the hearts, eyes 
and ears of the public as it has in Venezuela. These authentic journalists 
have changed the history of media in the early 21st century. They constitute 
a serious threat to the dying monopoly of commercial and corrupted 
journalism, and they have developed a model that can and should be studied 
and replicated by independent media and authentic journalists worldwide.
That is why, kind readers, the Community Media of Venezuela are under siege.

That is why the aforementioned "press freedom" organizations abandoned them: 
because these organizations, as their actions reflect, do not really favor a 
free press. They are merely selective defenders of a caste system that 
favors a monopoly of the airwaves by commercial and mercenary press. In two 
words, they favor a "paid press" over a "free press."

And that is why the Narco News team - as the first Internet journalists to 
win full First Amendment rights under United States law in our December 2001 
victory over Banamex-Citigroup in the New York Supreme Court - today picks 
up our court-validated press pass to defend our colleagues in the Community 
Media movement in Venezuela.

And we launch an international dialogue among authentic journalists, 
independent media, and press freedom advocates over the role of the large 
international "press freedom" organizations and the harm already caused to 
many journalists by their "selective enforcement" and interpretation of what 
constitutes Freedom of the Press.

What is at play in Venezuela is nothing less than the future of press 
freedom.

Here are the facts.


Community Media
Under Siege

During the two-day regime of dictator Pedro Carmona last April, at the same 
time that his troops were beating and torturing Nicolás Rivera of Radio 
Perola and his family, Carmona's police forces also kicked down doors and 
raided Radio Catia Libre and Catia TV in another popular barrio of Caracas. 
At TV Caricuao the troops shut down the station and placed its staff, 
illegally, under arrest. At the Catholic Church's popular broadcaster, Radio 
Fe y Alegria ("Radio Faith and Happiness"), the troops ordered the staff to 
play only music and to not report any news of the events that were shaking 
the country, or they would be shut down, too.

Carmona's troops also invaded and shut down the national public TV station - 
Channel 8.
Meanwhile, the commercial media, as has been widely reported and documented, 
ordered a complete news blackout, including at the Cisneros family's 
Globovision network - the largest TV company in the nation - owned by a 
close friend of George H.W. Bush, Sr., who had visited Cisneros in Venezuela 
last year, purportedly for a fishing trip.

The Human Rights group PROVEA (the Venezuelan Education-Action Program on 
Human Rights), on April 13th, reported that, "A journalist who asked not to 
be identified, the Production Chief of one of the principal TV channels in 
the country, denounced that the directors of the company impeded the 
journalists from transmitting information about the current events."

In place of news during the most newsworthy events in the nation's history, 
the big TV chains played "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, movies and re-runs.

The role of Internet journalists in breaking the information blockade 
outside of Venezuela was the subject of our April 18th report. But within 
Venezuela, only the Community Media journalists stood between democracy and 
dictatorship, and they saved the day.

During those days of crisis last April, the journalists of the Community 
Media in Venezuela got to work reporting the true facts - that masses of 
people from the popular barrios were coming down from the hills and taking 
back the Capital and other cities, street by street, building by building, 
and media by media. And it was only because of the Community Broadcasters at 
independent media like Catia TV and Radio Catia Libre that the public had 
any idea that the counter-coup underway in their own neighborhoods was 
happening, simultaneously, like a lightning bolt of democracy, throughout 
the city and the nation. The minority of Venezuelan homes that had cable TV 
got some, albeit distorted, news from CNN and international news agencies 
that there was resistance to the coup, but those reports were slow and left 
in the dust by the rapid-fire factual reporting of the Community Media in 
Venezuela and the international independent Online Press.

A key turning point for the people's counter-coup came when Public 
Television Channel 8 returned to the airwaves. Again, according to 
Venezuela's top telecommunications official, it was the journalists of the 
Community Media movement who retook the censored national TV station and 
moved it back onto the airwaves.

During an April 26th press conference, a reporter asked Jesse Chacón, the 
director of the National Telecommunications Commision (CONATEL, in its 
Spanish acronym), "how was Channel 8 regained?"

"That is owed, in great measure, to the help given by Community Broadcaster 
Catia TV," answered Chacón. "Its people were already taking great risks, 
among them their lives, but they helped to retake the transmitter. Their 
lives were in danger throughout those days. Their own headquarters had been 
raided. They succeeded in escaping. They took their cameras and stayed 
mobile, as did the people from Radio Perola. There was a very fierce 
persecution against them, something that has not been reported in the daily 
newspapers."


The Attacks of
the Past Month

On June 20th, the day that your correspondent arrived in Caracas, the large 
commercial TV stations - and the daily El Nacional and El Universal in the 
nation's capital - were openly attempting to provoke a second coup attempt, 
trumpeting a march for that day by military generals and other officers for 
the removal of Chávez, the elected president.

But the march - predicted and publicized by the commercial media as a 
massive act that would spark military officers to undertake a new coup 
attempt - fizzled. Only 1,300 people attended. And instead of the promised 
wave of military officers in uniform, just two retired generals brought 
their uniforms and, at that, carried them in front of their bodies on coat 
hangers.

At a press conference the following day attended by Narco News, President 
Chávez thanked the retired officers for their restraint in not wearing, as 
the commercial media had egged them on to do, their uniforms in a partisan 
political act.

"Some political sectors have picked up the military theme and it has taken 
up space in the media," said Chávez to a group of 40 international 
correspondents on April 21st. "Some opposition members don't have serious 
proposals. We don't have serious political opponents. Where are they? Where 
is their political leadership? Thus, the military theme has been raised… To 
play with the military in this way is to play with fire."

June 20th marked the day it became clear to everyone in Venezuela: The 
commercial media had lost its convocatory power to move even the uppermost 
classes of oligarchy into the streets. Your correspondent watched as the 
remnants of that day's march, gathered in Altimira Plaza, dwindled to a 
couple hundred demonstrators, then a hundred, then fifty or so, and then 
came a brief rain, and their mobilization simply disappeared, as if washed 
down the drainage pipes of the capital city.

The shock to the pro-coup minority in Venezuela was palpable. They were 
angry and disheartened. One man, who declined to be identified, told this 
reporter: "We must kill Chávez, his vice president and everybody who 
supports him. We need a civil war. But," he sighed, "it can't happen yet."

Within ten days, though, the minority opposition, through rogue elements of 
the Police Security and Intelligence Division (DISIP, in its Spanish 
initials, known in Venezuela as "the political police") and other police 
forces linked to the opposition that had been part of the original coup 
attempt last April, launched a concerted series of attacks upon the ones 
they blame for the collapse of the commercial media's power to provoke a 
coup: The Community Media.

In the past month, these attacks have included:

-	The June 28th incarceration, a second time, of Nicolás Rivera, the Radio 
Perola journalist, who has now been falsely accused of shooting from the 
Llaguno Bridge on April 11th (where he was armed with a tape recorder, not a 
gun). Nicolás remains in prison today.

- A smear campaign against Catia TV, initiated by various large commercial 
media outlets (Globovision and El Nacional, among others demonstrating, even 
as they incredibly cry that their own "press freedom" is threatened by the 
public hostility they have provoked against themselves, that they seek to 
deny press-freedom rights to the non-profit Community Media).

-	Threats to evict Catia TV from its studios atop a public hospital by the 
greater metropolitan area Mayor Alfredo Peña, a coup supporter whose police 
forces were among the shock troops of the April coup attempt.

- A smear campaign against alternative Internet media by El Nacional.

- A public demand by Miguel Angel Martínez, president of the private-sector 
Chamber of Radio Broadcasters - and one of the signers of the April 12th 
coup decree, abolishing Congress and the Constitution, with the dictator 
Carmona - that the Community TV and radio stations are "illegal," should be 
shut down, and that his affiliated commercial radio stations should 
"interfere" with the frequencies of the Community Media during the next coup 
attempt.

-	A raid last week against non-profit Community Broadcaster Radio Sendero de 
Antímano in another Caracas neighborhood by the same rogue political police 
forces of the DISIP (these pro-coup police factions are known, in the 
country, as "anillos negros," or "black rings," and the Chávez government so 
far remains unable to control them.

The Venezuelan Internet newspaper "Anti-Escualidos" ("Against the Squalid 
Ones") - http://www.antiescualidos.com/indexnew.html - reports:

"In an operation never before seen, not even when the dictator Carmona was 
placed under arrest, 20 patrol cars and 15 police motorcycles arrived at the 
radio station looking for explosives. According to the police, the operation 
was owed to a legal complaint filed by a teacher in the school from where 
the radio station broadcasts. The police 'found' in one of the classrooms 
(far from the radio studio) a knapsack with a used smoke-bomb and a broken 
bulletproof jacket. However, as a result of this unjustified operation, 
compañeros Jorge Quintero, Lenín Méndez and another journalist from the 
radio station have been arrested. This sudden arrest and raid form part of a 
complex strategy of persecution and terrorism unleashed against Venezuelan 
Community Media. We call upon different sectors of the Venezuelan and 
international community to declare themselves against these innumerable 
attacks of which the media, whose only crime has been to bring voice to the 
popular sectors, is the victim."

The second arrest of Nicolás Rivera, on June 28th, was particularly brutal 
and bizarre in its circumstances.

Narco News contacted his wife, Tibisay de Vivero, who was present, to ask 
what had happened.

"On June 28th, my husband and I, with our lawyer, went to the offices of the 
PTJ (the Technical Judicial Police) to file a criminal complaint against the 
officers who had tortured Nicolás during the coup," she explained. "The 
attorney had called ahead and made an appointment with the officer in charge 
of receiving this kind of complaint. But when we got to the police station, 
the officer wasn't there. No one would attend to us. Instead, they arrested 
Nicolás and charged him with homicide, resisting arrest and possession of a 
firearm. Now they say he was shooting people when he was reporting on April 
11th. He's still a prisoner today, an innocent person arrested for something 
that in reality he did not do. It's unjust. We are waiting to see what 
happens."

We asked: "Between the date of Nicolás' first arrest on April 12th and his 
second arrest on June 28th, did any international press-freedom organization 
contact you?"

"No," she answered. "Nobody."


Former Boston Phoenix Political Reporter Al Giordano reports on the drug war 
and democracy from Latin America. He is publisher of The Narco News Bulletin 
- www.narconews.com -- and receives email at narconews at hotmail.com

About this series:

Last month, Narco News publisher Al Giordano traveled to Venezuela to 
investigate and report on the political situation and, specifically, the 
role of the media - commercial and community - in the April coup, 
counter-coup, and the continuing history of the country's democracy. He 
interviewed hundreds of sources from the popular neighborhoods, the media, 
the opposition and the Chávez administration.

This series will include reports on the history of the Community Media 
movement in Venezuela as told by its own journalists and participants, and 
an analysis of the 1999 Bolivarian Constitution's guarantee of press freedom 
rights to all citizens, not just the commercial media caste (Venezuela's new 
laws legalizing non-profit Community TV and Radio are the most progressive 
of any country in the world and we will translate the key provisions for 
distribution and use in other countries.)

The series will also include reports on two days spent covering President 
Hugo Chávez: His June 21 press conference with foreign correspondents (which 
lasted almost four hours) and his June 23 live nationwide broadcast from the 
headquarters of Community TV station Catia TV, where for five hours the 
president took calls from the public and questions from a studio audience of 
36 representatives of the Community Media throughout Venezuela.

This series will also explore the modus operandi of the three wealthiest 
international "press freedom" organizations - The "Committee to Protect 
Journalists" in New York, the "Inter-American Press Association" in Miami 
and the Paris-based "Reporters Without Borders" - and how each of these 
organizations has betrayed their own self-stated missions with their 
simulated and partial statements regarding the events this year in 
Venezuela.

Today, we are sending this first installment of the series to 
representatives of each of these three international organizations, will 
offer them a chance to respond to questions about their funding and its 
relation to their stances regarding press freedom issues in Venezuela, and 
attempt to begin a long-overdue dialogue - in full public view - with the 
spokespersons for these groups about their selective definitions of "press 
freedom," particularly as it regards defense of commercial media over 
non-profit community journalism. We hope these organizations will enter into 
this dialogue in a spirit of self-critique and correction, and that they 
will become more accountable for their actions as a result.

We also issue a call to the global networks of Independent Media and 
Authentic Journalism to join in this dialogue about what truly constitutes 
Freedom of the Press and how it is best defended and expanded. Please join 
in the conversation. Send your letters, comments, questions and criticisms 
to our immedia working group at salonchingon at hotmail.com

This series is part of the Narco News Immedia Summer 2002 project. For more 
information see our June 1st report: "The Masses vs. The Media: A Revolution 
for a Narcotized Society" - http://www.narconews.com/themasses.html

This story, "Free Nicolás Rivera: Community Media, the Voice of the People, 
Under Siege," appears online at 
http://www.narconews.com/communitymedia1.html

Lea Ud. Parte I en Español: 
http://www.narconews.com/medioscomunitarios1.html

Read Our Letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists:
http://www.narconews.com/cpjletter1.html

Read Our Letter to Reporters Without Borders
http://www.narconews.com/letterwithoutborders1.html

Read Our Letter to the Interamerican Press Association
http://www.narconews.com/iapaletter1.html

For More Narco News, Click Here:
http://www.narconews.com/

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