The Venezuelan Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) on Wednesday ordered the Electoral Chamber to "halt all the processes of the presidential recall referendum."

Ray McGovern, one of the CIA's most senior analysts and a personal friend of George Bush snr, told me: "It was 95 per cent charade. And they all knew it: Bush, Blair, Howard."
In fact, UN records show that up to July 2002, more than $US5 billion worth of humanitarian aid, approved by the UN Security Council and paid for by Iraq, was blocked by the US.

Pakistan and the United States of America Thursday agreed to release Pakistani prisoners detained in Guantanamo, Cuba and Afghanistan subject to screening process of the US authorities.

So what happened on March 14? A point seldom noted is that, in terms of absolute votes, the PP did only slightly worse than in 2000, when it won 10.3 million ballots. The 9.6 million votes it earned this year would still have been enough, in 2000, to give it the majority. The difference this time around was a massive increase in turnout, an unsurprising response grounded in a sense of national solidarity following the attacks.
Aznar even telephoned the editors of major publications repeatedly in an attempt to pressure them to avoid any suggestion that groups other than ETA might have been responsible.