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Solnit: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch:
Znet Article, August, 10 2004
Rebecca Solnit
Solnit's ZSpace page
In July, the Feds handed down to Nevada its bitterest defeat and sweetest victory in ages; the former, a termination of thousands of years of Western Shoshone history; the latter, a reprieve from an apocalyptic future as the world's biggest -- and...
Sapozhnikov: WTO's Ruling on Sugar Subsidies
Znet Article, August, 08 2004
Leonid Sapozhnikov
Sapozhnikov's ZSpace page
Cautious optimism and holistic thinking: Thoughts on WTO's ruling on EU's sugar subsidies Last week was another big win for developing countries. In a preliminary decision that stirred the world, the World Trade Organization ruled against the Eu...
Podur: Colombia and Venezuela
Znet Article, August, 04 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Carlos Andres Perez, a former President of Venezuela and leader of the Venezuelan 'opposition' against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said in a recent interview that "Violence will allow us to remove [Chavez]. That's the only way we have," and ...
Schultz: The Curse of Wealth Under the Ground
Znet Article, August, 01 2004
Jim Schultz
Schultz's ZSpace page
Cochabamba, Bolivia - When Bolivians went to the polls earlier this month to vote on how to develop the nation's vast oil and gas reserves, they went with history on their minds. Just outside the old colonial city of Potosi sits the mountain k...
Hylton: Bolivia's Gas Referendum
Znet Article, July, 20 2004
Forrest Hylton
Hylton's ZSpace page
When Colombian President Ãlvaro Uribe Vélez gave the signal for the propaganda onslaught -- accompanied, coincidentally, by paramilitary threats and harassment -- in favor of his referendum in October 2003 (in which 81% of the Colombian populati...
Solo: The Gas Referendum in Bolivia
Znet Article, July, 16 2004
Toni Solo
Solo's ZSpace page
The Bolivian referendum will go ahead on Sunday July 18th after a relentless government publicity campaign and amid repressive legal and security measures aimed at trying to intimidate people into voting. People refusing to vote or attempting to b...
Ego ducrot: Argentina's Phony Energy Crisis
Znet Article, July, 13 2004
Victor Ego ducrot
Ego ducrot's ZSpace page
With the current so-called energy crisis, Argentineans and South Americans in general are being submitted to one of the best planned disinformation campaigns of recent times. The petrol consortiums and to some extent the governments of Bolivia, Ar...
Z: Madman or Commissar?
Znet Article, July, 07 2004
Mickey Z
Z's ZSpace page
Parade Magazine took full advantage of Independence (sic) Day falling on a Sunday by hiring none other than Elie Wiesel to pen a little something called "The America I Love" for their patriotic cover story. Over a two-page spread, the "Nobel Laure...
Sader: What is Brazil Doing in Haiti?
Znet Article, July, 06 2004
Emir Sader
Sader's ZSpace page
Since the beginning of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's administration, Brazil's foreign policy has been assuming a fresh countenance thanks to a broad, more political effort at regional integration through Mercosur; the creation of the Group...
Solo: A translation key for Roger Noriega
Znet Article, July, 05 2004
Toni Solo
Solo's ZSpace page
Few people get to read US imperial declarations in the original. Access to official imperial texts is mostly via the interpretations and translations offered in newspapers, magazines and radio or TV. These translations tend to be unreliable becaus...
Quintanilla: The Invisible US War in Colombia
Znet Article, July, 01 2004
Jacobo Quintanilla
Quintanilla's ZSpace page
29.06.2004 (By Jacob Quintanilla, Americas.org) Millions of people in the United States were moved by the story of Private Jessica Lynch, captured by Iraqi troops in March 2003. A few days after her liberation, Jessica Lynch would return to her ho...
Landau: Buzz Words And Venezuela
Znet Article, July, 01 2004
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint; but when I asked why people are poor, they called me a communist." --Brazilian Bishop Don Helder Camara President Hugo Chavez Frias' enemies refer to him as a "terrorist" and a "communist." I...
Bond: Assessing the Latin American Left (part 2)
Commentary, June, 30 2004
Patrick Bond
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Early last month, at the University of Wisconsin's Havens Center - supported by Amsterdam's Transnational Institute - radicals from ten countries came to discuss the "The New Latin American Left." In my last ZNet commentary, I reported on six of t...
Solo: Indigenous Resistance to Globalization
Znet Article, June, 26 2004
Toni Solo
Solo's ZSpace page
“Negotiating a free-trade agreement with the U.S. is not something one has a right to - it's a privilege."1 This quote from US Trade Representative ...
Bello: Empire and Resistance Today
Znet Article, June, 25 2004
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Over the last year, I have been preoccupied, as so many of us have, with one thing, Iraq. Iraq, as Bob Woodward puts it in his book Plan of Attack, has "sucked all the oxygen out of the system." It is the central event of our time, our Spanis...
Marset: Letter on Forrest Hylton's PACHO CORTES CASE
Znet Article, June, 17 2004
Pedro Marset
Marset's ZSpace page
Mr. Forrest HyltonBolivia Dear Mr. Hylton I read with concern your article published in ZNet-Bolivia (1) where you denounce possible fraud that was committed by Evo Morales and his counterpart in relation to sums of money that I had sent ...
Dieterich: Bolivarian Project in Mortal Danger
Znet Article, June, 15 2004
Hans Dieterich
Dieterich's ZSpace page
The legalization of the recall referendum against President Hugo Chavez—conducted by the Venezuelan right with pre-meditated fraud and recurring acts that violate the rule of law—open the doors for a possible loss of power for the ...
Hylton: The Pacho Cortes Case
Znet Article, June, 13 2004
Forrest Hylton
Hylton's ZSpace page
[Editor's Note: this article provoked a number of letters relating to some of the claims in it. ZNet-Bolivia has published one of those letters here.] To start with good news, I was dead wrong: Claudi...
Lagman: Of Cabdrivers and Passengers:
Znet Article, June, 01 2004
Chibu Lagman
Lagman's ZSpace page
Lima, Pe...
