President Barack Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA operatives who used questionable interrogation practices violates international law, the U.N.'s top torture investigator said.
Hugo Chavez's gift to Obama: L.A. pillage
by Mark Silva
Hugo Chavez threw the book at former President George W. Bush: The fiery Venezuelan leader called the American president the "devil."
Today, Chavez gave a book to President Barack Obama.
Yet the public gesture of amitywith the Venezuelan leader rounding a conference table for the cameras to deliver the gift to Obama, shake his hand, pat his back and casually inquire, "Como estas?''carries its own inevitable political footnote:
The book, en ingles, is The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, a 40-year-old essay and the best-known work of Uruguayan journalist and novelist Eduardo Galeano about U.S. and European economic and political interference in the region.
Thus opened the first full day of meetings in the two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, just off of Venezuela's coast, where Obama has joined the leaders of 33 other nations for a hemispheric Summit of the Americas.
In his opening address to the gathering on Friday, Obama promised a new agenda for the Americas: "We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms. But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. There is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations."
And now Obama has a new, old, book to read -- with the president joking afterward that he'll have to give Chavez one of Obama's own books.
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Sisters See Columbine Anniversary As Turning Point
Junior Kim Blair was eating lunch outside Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, when two boys started a shooting spree that stunned the nation. Her twin sister, Patti, was studying in the library, where 10 people were killed. A decade later, the sisters are hoping they can finally put the nightmare to rest.
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