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---------------- Anacaona: La Madre De Resistencia En El Caribe <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j15ufMwoH50/T8jMzxbYoCI/AAAAAAAAAeg/2BE7yT0TfTk/s1600/Anacaona_sml.JPG> The legacy of Anacaona, the Taína queen who fought against the incoming Spanish, echoes throughout the Carribbean. She is recognized as a supreme figure of resistance, an idol of Boricua and Dominican culture, and a semblance of the matrilineal heritage that made up the historical tribes of the islands. Anacaona (1474 c. 1503), Taíno for "Golden Flower", was chief of Xaragua, and wife of Caonabo, chief of the nearby territory of Maguana. These were two of the five highest caciques that ruled the island of Haiti when the Spaniards settled there in 1492. It was this year that Columbus and his men landed in the island of Quisqueya (the Spaniards would re-name it Hispaniola) where the Taínos had resided for years and built communities divided up into the five chiefdoms . At first, relations between the Spanish and Taínos were relatively friendly and resulted in mutual exchanges of items from each culture. Eventually, the Taínos saw the Spanish's long-term (or short-term) plan of taking over the lands and their people. The Taínos resisted the conquest, led by Anacaona after her husband was captured, made prisoner, and died while being shipped to Spain. In spite of the tragic event of having lost her lover, Anacaona, who was charismatic, fired up the warrior spirit in the Tainos and invigorated them to fight for their communities. The Spaniards, however, eventually outnumbered the Taínos once the majority of them were wiped out by diseases, swords, and horses. Anacaona's daughter, Higuemota, and granddaughter, Mencia, were saved by the massacre by tribal leaders who were put in charge to get the young as far away from the island. Anacaona, accused of being a traitor, was hung in Xaragua in 1503. Today, Anacaona's name and story is told and mentioned in many songs written by Puerto-Ricans, Haitians, and Dominicans. These islands recognize the history of Anacaona as fundamental to the current cultures and symbolic of the greatness of the matriarchal organization that had prevailed in Carribbean society before contact with the Spanish. -------------------------------------------- http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/04/festive-left-friday-blogging-here-have-my-earworm.html Festive Left Friday Blogging: Here, have my earworm.<http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/04/festive-left-friday-blogging-here-have-my-earworm.html>April 26, 2013 Sabina Becker This has been in my head all day, for reasons understandable if youve been reading me lately. Now, let it infiltrate YOUR head: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WXvPMukLe68* * * Oh, you want lyrics too? All righty then: *Working Latin America* * The Yankee is afraid that youll rise up, Working Latin America, I dont know, why dont you do it? The Yankee is afraid of the Revolution, The Yankee fears the call: Yankee go home! Yankee go home And rising up over the Amazon, Comes the rebel cry of the Carioca*, And comes to unite with his brother, The Venezuelan worker Working Latin America, Working Latin America, Latin America Lift up in your hands the flag of the Revolution Working Latin America, and shout, forcefully: Yankee go home! Yankee go home! Yankee go home! Gringo, go home. The workers of Latin America are telling you: Gringo, go home! Yankee go home! * *Lift up in your hands the flag of the Revolution Working Latin America, and shout, forcefully: Yankee go home! Yankee go home! Yankee go home! * Translation mine. *A Carioca is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since the Brazilian Amazon region borders on Venezuelas own Amazonas state, there is a geographic connection between the two lands. Alí Primera is making the case for unity between the workers of these two and all other Latin American countries, as well. And I like to think hed smile if he saw how Chavecitos election paved the way for Brazils Lula and Dilma, who are from the Workers Party, and both strong allies of Venezuela and its workers. -------------------- Venezuelan Audit Cant Find Any Different Result in Presidential Election, Statistical Analysis Shows Apr 26th 2013, by Center for Economic and Policy Research [image: The Venezuelan electoral system has been described by former US president Jimmy Carter as one of the "best in the world&quo] The Venezuelan electoral system has been described by former US president Jimmy Carter as one of the "best in the world" (Tomas Bravo/Reuters) A statistical analysis<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cepr.net%2Findex.php%2Fblogs%2Fthe-americas-blog%2Fthe-venezuelan-presidential-vote-what-is-the-probability-that-it-could-have-been-stolen> by the Center for Economic and Policy Research<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cepr.net%2F>(CEPR) has shown that if Venezuelan opposition claims that Nicolás Maduro's victory was obtained by fraud were true, it is practically impossible to have obtained the result that was found in an audit of 53% of electronic voting machines that took place on the evening of Venezuelas April 14 elections. The odds of this occurring would be far less than one in 25 thousand trillion. The U.S. government must know this, too, said CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cepr.net%2Findex.php%2Fbiographies%2Fmark-weisbrot%2F>, economist and co-author of a forthcoming paper with economist and computer scientist David Rosnick. So it is difficult to explain why they are refusing to recognize the elected president in opposition to all of the countries in Latin America and most of the world. The results of Venezuelas April 14 presidential election returned 7,575,506 votes for Nicolás Maduro, and 7,302,641 votes for challenger Henrique Capriles Radonski. This is a difference of 272,865 votes, or 1.8 percent of the two-way total between the candidates. In this election, voters express their preference by pressing a computer touch-screen, which then prints out a paper receipt of their vote. The voter then checks to make sure that the receipt was the same as her choice, and deposits the paper receipt in a sealed box. When the polls closed, a random sample of 53 percent[i]<http://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-releases/press-releases/venezuelan-audit-cant-find-any-different-result-in-presidential-election-statistical-analysis-shows#ftn1> of all the machines (20,825 out of 39,303) was chosen, and a manual tally was made of the paper receipts. This hot audit was done on site, in the presence of the observers from both campaigns, as well as witnesses from the community. There were no reports from witnesses or election officials on site of discrepancies between the machine totals and the hand count. Immediately after the election results were announced on the night of April 14th, the Venezuelan opposition demanded a full recount of all of the voting machines paper receipts and subsequently called for an audit or manual count of the 46% of the sealed boxes containing the paper receipts that had not yet been audited. After the Venezuelan Electoral Councils (CNEs) decision to grant their request, on April 18th, the main opposition party came up with a series of new demands suggesting that they did not believe that a full audit would provide evidence of any significant fraud. On April 26 they announced that they would boycott the audit that they had requested the previous week. What if it were true that there were enough mismatches in the 39,303 machines to have given Maduro a 50.8 percent majority, when Capriles had been the true winner? CEPR calculated that the probability of getting the results of the first audit would then have been less than one in 25 thousand trillion. The results are pretty much intuitive, said Weisbrot. With a sample that huge verified during the April 14 hot audit, if there were any discrepancies between the machine count and the paper ballots, it would have shown up somewhere. But it didnt. It is therefore practically impossible that an audit of the remaining 46 percent of ballot boxes could find enough discrepancies to reverse the result of the election. The forthcoming paper also calculates the probability that the remaining 46 percent of ballot boxes, if audited, could change the outcome. It also looks at other possible scenarios, including allegations from Capriles that there were irregularities in some 12,000 of the remaining machines, and other ways that the unaudited machines could have enough errors to change the result. The above calculation can be seen here<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=5&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cepr.net%2Findex.php%2Fblogs%2Fthe-americas-blog%2Fthe-venezuelan-presidential-vote-what-is-the-probability-that-it-could-have-been-stolen>. The full paper will be available next week. ------------------------------ [i] Another 1 percent was audited the next day. ------------------------------ *Source URL (retrieved on 26/04/2013 - 10:17pm):* http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/8867 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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