DEMOCRACY NOW!

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

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Today's Headlines

• Sen. Obama Projected to Win Majority of Pledged Delegates
• Clinton Fundraiser Accused of Trying to Buy Support of Superdelegates
• Pentagon Announces Deployment of 42,000 Troops
• Probe Called for in 2003 US Shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Iraq
• Feith Admits “Terrible Mistakes” Made Ahead of Iraq War
• UNICEF: 6 Million Children in Ethiopia at Risk of Malnutrition
• Death Toll from Chinese Earthquake Tops 40,000
• US Accused of Violating Venezuelan Airspace
• Cuba Accuses US Diplomat of Passing Funds to Opposition Groups
• Hundreds Protest Iowa Immigration Raid
• NY Post Reporter Fired After Suing NYPD

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/20/headlines#10

US Accused of Violating Venezuelan Airspace

In news from Latin America, the Venezuelan government is accusing the US military of violating its airspace by flying a Navy plane over a Venezuelan island on Saturday. A US military official said a Navy S3-Viking may have accidentally crossed into Venezuela’s airspace. Venezuelan officials said the Navy plane practically flew over the island of La Orchilla, where Venezuela operates a military base.

Cuba Accuses US Diplomat of Passing Funds to Opposition Groups

Meanwhile, Cuba is a accusing the top US diplomat in Havana of ferrying funds from an anti-Castro exile group in Miami to opposition figures on the island. The cash is said to come from Santiago Alvarez, who was once convicted in the US of conspiring to collect military-style weapons to overthrow Cuba’s government. Alvarez is currently serving a ten-month prison term for refusing to testify against airline bomber Luis Posada Carriles. Cuban Foreign Ministry official Josefina Vidal Ferreira said the cash payments reveals a direct connection between dissidents in Cuba and terrorists in Miami.

Josefina Vidal Ferreira: “The Cuban government has always condemned as illegal the use of federal funds to promote internal subversion in Cuba, as is the case with the direct implication of the department of US interests. But what is doubly scandalous and infuriating is that US diplomats in Havana serve as emissaries and go-betweens for terrorists and Cuban mercenaries.”