Anarchopedia:Current events archive

2008

• "Evo Morales announces general elections for 2009".[1]
• Venezuelan ex-defense minister and critic of Hugo Chavez on corruption issue Raul Baduel faces problem. This happens a couple of weeks after Venezuela expelled two Human Rights Watch members from the country for publishing report critical of Chavez administration.[2]
• It is reported that US presidential candidate Barack Obama, if elected, will increase foreign aid to Israel.[3]
• The main police headquarters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad is attacked in a suspected suicide bombing.[4]
• Low-paid workers at McDonald's and the Farmers department store in Auckland and Hamilton in New Zealand are striking for better salary and working conditions.[5]
• Venezuela's finance minister Ali Rodriguez said that the country's 2009 budget "will have significant restrictions" compared to US$63.9 in 2008. He said "There are expenses that must be eliminated and others that must be reduced. Many expenses, such as expenses on certain types of vehicles, celluars and parties, will be eliminated."[6]
• 27 people have been killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Sri Lanka.[7]
• 15 Indian officials are arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Delhi Government for bribery.[8]
• Farmers in Argentina are protesting. "They want government help for small- and medium-scale farmers and aid for those in the north of the country hit by the worst drought in 100 years."[9]