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Robledo: The FTA Between Colombia and the US Cannot be Salvaged
Znet Article, April, 21 2007
Jorge Robledo
Robledo's ZSpace page
From March 26 to March 30, I visited Washington, DC, along with Iván Moreno Rojas, Senator of the Polo Democrático Alternativo (PDA-Alternative Democratic Party); Apecides Alvis, President of the Confederación de Trabajadores de Colombia (CTC-C...
Marque: Global Women Activists Speak Out Against War, Imperialism
Znet Article, April, 19 2007
Humberto Marque
Marque's ZSpace page
Global Women Activists Speak Out Against War, Imperialism
Mondragon: Armed Gamonales (or Colombian Fascism)
Znet Article, April, 16 2007
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
It is impossible to understand the phenomenon of
Kozloff: Chile: A Country Geographically Located in South America "By Accident"
Znet Article, April, 12 2007
Nikolas Kozloff
Kozloff's ZSpace page
Recently, Nikolas Kozloff, author of Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. (Palgrave, 2006), caught up with Manuel Cabieses, the Director of Punto Final, a Chilean bi-monthly newspaper. Kozloff is currently writing another boo...
Ledebur: US Evaluation of Bolivian Drug Control Misleading and Inaccurate
Znet Article, April, 11 2007
Kathryn Ledebur
Ledebur's ZSpace page
US officials continue to cling to eradication figures and old yardsticks to evaluate Bolivia’s new approach to coca cultivation and drug control. The 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR)1 criticizes the Morales admi...
Fernandes: A View from the Barrios
Znet Article, April, 07 2007
Sujatha Fernandes
Fernandes's ZSpace page
Published in LASA Forum, Winter 2007 The radical trajectory of president Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has been a highly controversial topic among Latin Americanists, democratization experts, policy makers, and activists. Some lament what they see as...
Weisbrot: Is Hugo Chavez a Threat to Stability? No.
Znet Article, April, 04 2007
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
I have been asked to comment on the question of "whether President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela poses a threat to regional stability and how his critics, in...
Rada: Bolivia: Nationalization on its Knees
Znet Article, April, 03 2007
Andrés soliz Rada
Rada's ZSpace page
Sometimes the efforts of oppressed peoples to liberate themselves from imperial subjugation are confronted by direct, brutal violence like that used by the CIA to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 and Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973 o...
Hallinan: Price of Fire Review
Znet Article, March, 28 2007
Conn Hallinan
Hallinan's ZSpace page
The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia By Benjamin Dangl AK Press, 2007 $15.95 There was a time in history when travel diaries were the way people in London, Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam found out about the countrie...
Weisbrot: Bolivia's Morales Deserves Applause
Znet Article, March, 27 2007
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
"In our culture, there is a cosmic law. Don't steal. Don't lie. Don't be lazy ... in our culture, honesty is very ...
Dangl: Bolivia's Dance With Evo Morales
Znet Article, March, 27 2007
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
George W. Bush and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez crisscrossed Latin America on parallel tours recently, pushing opposing agendas. While B...
Ledebur: The Shifting Weight of US Funding in Bolivia
Znet Article, March, 27 2007
Kathryn Ledebur
Ledebur's ZSpace page
U.S. funding decisions on Bolivia, especially tied to drug control programs, have long shaped policy within South America’s poorest nation. In the past, the threat of funding cuts as a result of “decertification,†a decisio...
Burbach: Ecuador's Nascent Leftist Government Victorious in Confrontation with Right
Znet Article, March, 25 2007
Roger Burbach
Burbach's ZSpace page
The two month old government of leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and the popular movements that back him have emerged triumphant in their first battle with the oligarchy and the traditional political parties that have historically domina...
Solo: Latin American - delusion and reality
Znet Article, March, 23 2007
Toni Solo
Solo's ZSpace page
Latin American - delusion and reality
Lendman: A Review of John Ross' Zapatistas
Znet Article, March, 22 2007
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
A Review of John Ross' Zapatistas
Montecino: Latin America has Moved
Znet Article, March, 21 2007
Juan antonio Montecino
Montecino's ZSpace page
During his recent trip to Latin America, the first since 2005, president Bush went to extraordinary lengths to downplay the real reason for the tour: Chávez. The week long trip spanned five countries-Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia and Urugu...
Weisbrot: Political and Economic Changes in Latin America Likely to Continue
Znet Article, March, 20 2007
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Sunday (March 18) -- President Bush has recently returned from a seven day, five country trip to Latin America, with which he had hoped to regain some of the influence that the Unite...
Agee: The Descent of the US and Rise of Latin America
Znet Article, March, 19 2007
Philip Agee
Agee's ZSpace page
Anyone following the news in recent times cannot be unaware of the wave of progressive change sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean. For many lonely years Cuba held high the torch through its exemplary programs to provide universal health care ...
Fernandes: Political Parties and Social Change
Znet Article, March, 19 2007
Sujatha Fernandes
Fernandes's ZSpace page
Since Hugo Chávez of Venezuela proposed the dissolution of the 24 parties that support his government and the formation of a single party on December 15, 2007, there has been much debate among the parties involved. According to Chávez, the propo...
Bond: Elite power and weakness across time and space
Commentary, March, 19 2007
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Who thinks coming hostilities with Iran are about military, material and religio-ideological support for Shiite militias, or even construction of a nuclear energy plant? Only in the context of a several-decade scan does the Bush regime's panicky n...
