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Pearson: Chavez spreads wealth to aid U.N. cause
Znet Article, October, 18 2006
Natalie obiko Pearson
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As Venezuela lobbies for a U.N. Security Council seat, President Hugo Chavez has bolstered its chances by spreading petrodollars across the Americas and beyond — extending an airstrip on a Caribbean island, sending emergency food aid to Af...
Morales: "The time to truly change our Bolivia has come"
Znet Article, October, 17 2006
Evo Morales
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Speech by president of the republic, Evo Morales Ayma, at the mobilization to mark 514 years of colonialism, La Paz, October 12, 2006 Thank you very much sisters and brothers from Bolivia and from Abya Yala; companero Alvaro Garcia Linera, our vi...
Chomsky: U.S. Intervention in Venezuela and in Latin America
Znet Article, October, 13 2006
Noam Chomsky
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A public event on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the bombing of Cubana airliner, flight 455, which cost the lives of 73 passengers, was held on October 6th, 2006, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Boston. Participatin...
Montecino: Cleaving a False Divide in Latin America
Znet Article, October, 11 2006
Juan antonio Montecino
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As Latin America shifts further left on the political spectrum, U.S. pundits are frantically struggling to artificially partition the continent’s leftist leaders between so-called populist demagogues and sound pragmatists. While most ...
Lendman: Alvaro Vargas Llosa Sends Hugo Chavez to Dante's Inferno
Znet Article, October, 08 2006
Stephen Lendman
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa is no stranger to those who know his writings and affilation with the conservative Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA. Vargas Llosa is Director of the Center and in that role is a vocal ch...
Howard: Freedom on Air: Venezuelan Jail Transformed into Community Radio Station
Znet Article, October, 05 2006
April Howard
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The neighborhood of El 23 de Enero is like many improvised neighborhoods in Caracas clinging to the hillsides of the city; multi-colored apartments made of brick and cement were stacked on top of each other forming labyrinth-lik...
Lamrani: Reporters Without Borders and its contradictions
Znet Article, October, 04 2006
Salim Lamrani
Lamrani's ZSpace page
On September 12, 2006, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an open letter “in response to its detractors,†who denounce its lack of impartiality, the financing it receives from the United States and its political agenda âS...
Landau: Ideology as facade for criminality
Commentary, October, 03 2006
Saul Landau
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On 9/11/73, General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that overthrew Chile's elected government. The military bombed the Presidential Palace, assassinated 3,197 and tortured of tens of thousands more in order to "save" Chile from "subversion." ...
Wallach: Not For Sale: El Salvador's Movement Against Water Privatization
Znet Article, September, 29 2006
Jason Wallach
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When residents in Santa Eduviges entered their second month without running water, everyone knew something had to be done. A meeting was called. Community members expressed outrage that the water company's $7 per month bill always arrived on time,...
Palast: Hugo Chavez
Znet Article, September, 24 2006
Greg Palast
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You'd think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chavez's behind. Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katri...
Geertsen: Interview with Luis Macas: "We want a total transformation"
Znet Article, September, 23 2006
Rune Geertsen
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The powerful Ecuadorian indigenous movement faces one of its biggest challenges yet in the October 15th presidential elections – for the first time they are presenting their own candidate. For them it is not about winning, it is about cont...
Morgan: Bulwark Paraguay
Znet Article, September, 22 2006
Ronald j. Morgan
Morgan's ZSpace page
During the 35-year rule of Paraguayan Dictator Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989) the virulent anti-communism and the regime’s penchant for torture and prisons sent a message to would-be Che Guevaras and the Soviet Union that fit in with Ameri...
Lendman: Hugo Chavez's New World Vision
Znet Article, September, 22 2006
Stephen Lendman
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After agreeing to supply discounted oil to the richest city in Europe - London - to help its low income residents use the city's buses at a reduced cost after earlier providing discounted heating oil for the poor in several northeastern US cities ...
Chavez: Chavez Addresses the UN
Znet Article, September, 21 2006
Hugo Chavez
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Madam President, Excellencies, Heads of State, Heads of government and other government’s representatives, good morning. First, and with all respect, I highly recommend this book by Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious intellectuals...
Barker: Corporate fronts, astroturf groups and co-opted social movements
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Michael Barker
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Challenging power is crucial to the stability of democracy, without dissent there would be few checks on unbridled power. The overwhelming power of dissent and popular democracy to effect social change is widely acknowledged by corporate and gover...
Ngugi: Africa and Latin America
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Mukoma Ngugi
Ngugi's ZSpace page
Roots of Optimism and Contradictions The Berlin Wall is dismantled brick by brick in November of 1989. It becomes a symbol of freedom and new beginnings. A few months into 1990 the Soviet Union collapses and from its ruins a plethora of nations...
Dávalos: The geopolitics of Latin American forign debt
Znet Article, September, 12 2006
Pablo Dávalos
Dávalos's ZSpace page
Despite its importance, consideration of foreign debt over the last few years has been diffuse and blurred. Whereas in the 1980s foreign debt was the focus of argument, twenty years later it appears as a marginal issue, as much in discussion of pu...
Rebick: Peaceful revolution is taking shape
Znet Article, September, 09 2006
Judy Rebick
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Sucre, Bolivia — On Sunday, Aug. 6, President Evo Morales opened a Constituent Assembly here that in his words will re-found Bolivia on an entirely new basis. After weeks of negotiations with smaller parties, the Movement towards Socialism...
Miller: Other Economies are Possible!
Znet Article, September, 09 2006
Ethan Miller
Miller's ZSpace page
Can thousands of diverse, locally-rooted, grassroots economic projects form the basis for a viable democratic alternative to capitalism? It might seem unlikely that a motley array of initiatives such as worker, consumer, and housing cooperatives, ...
Case: Argentine Labor Leader Reports on Populism and Socialism in Latin America
Znet Article, September, 07 2006
John Case
Case's ZSpace page
"First, the main issue is the immense divide in wealth as the legacy of 90's neo-liberal policies." "Second, populism and socialism in Latin America mean different things in each country, mean different things than in Europe, mean different thing...
