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Znet Article Fuentes: Bolivia

Znet Article, August, 10 2006 Federico Fuentes
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In an exclusive interview, Bolivia's powerful Hydrocarbons Minister contends that the recent visit of Joaquín Lavin (2) to La Paz "takes place in the context of constantly more frequent pronouncements in favour of a Bolivian route to the sea. He ...

Znet Article Fernandes: Way Forward for the Left?

Znet Article, August, 09 2006 Sujatha Fernandes
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Following the rejection by the Mexican Electoral Tribunal this past Saturday August 6 of a full recount of the vote from Mexico’s recent elections, protesters have taken to the streets in support of center left PRD (Democratic Revolution P...

Znet Article Beeton: What the World Bank and IDB Owe Haiti

Znet Article, August, 02 2006 Dan Beeton
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  For several years Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been left out of the World Bank’s “Heavily Indebted Poor Country” (HIPC) debt relief initiative. At last, Haiti may soon see some of its IMF and...

Znet Article Lendman: The Crime of Lebanon and Palestine

Znet Article, July, 26 2006 Stephen Lendman
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By any interpretation of international law, Israel today is committing massive and egregious war crimes and crimes against humanity against the defenseless people of Palestine and Lebanon.  It's doing it with the full support and encouragement of ...

Znet Article Solo: Varieties of imperial decline

Znet Article, July, 25 2006 Toni Solo
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If people needed reminding that North American and European foreign policy, including policy on aid and trade, is based on sadism and hypocrisy, events in Palestine and Lebanon will surely have done so.  While people inside the imperial Bluebeard'...

Znet Article Private eye: The cheque's in the pipeline

Znet Article, July, 20 2006 Private eye
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BP has secretly settled the case being brought by more than 50 destitute Colombian farmers rendered homeless by construction of a major oil pipeline through their land (Eye 1142). The claim switched to the UK from Colombia after one of the farmer...

Znet Article Zibechi: The Wished-For Technical Draw in Bolivia

Znet Article, July, 13 2006 Raúl Zibechi
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from La Jornada, published in Rebelion, 11-07-2006 The recent elections for the Constituent Assembly mark the end of the political transition in Bolivia. The developing scenario, despite the solid victory of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) of...

Znet Article Almeyra: Words and Acts

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Guillermo Almeyra
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Originally published in Spanish by Memoria*********************************Translated by irlandesa The events in San Salvador Atenco compel us to address the issues of what phase the country is in and what the left can and should do in order to b...

Znet Article Caputo: Ransacking Chile

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 Orlando Caputo
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The rise in copper prices has produced euphoria in the government and ruling elites, despite relative complications for certain exporters. The price rise seems not to be a momentary phenomenon. Although abundance is not noticeable in the daily lif...

Znet Article Báez: The ambivalent Andean chessboard

Znet Article, July, 03 2006 René Báez
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The ascendant nationalist tendency in Latin America in the Andean region, ever more entrenched in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivia of Evo Morales, has recently faced the impact of important elections.(1) Above all, there were the elect...

Znet Article Morales: The US, Bolivia, and Venezuela

Znet Article, July, 03 2006 Evo Morales
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On July 2, elections for a constituent assembly and a referendum on regional autonomy were held in Bolivia. A week earlier, Pablo Stefanoni spoke with President Evo Morales about the new assembly and Morales's first five months in government. The ...

Znet Article Lendman: The Wall Street Journal's Chavez Commentary

Znet Article, June, 24 2006 Stephen Lendman
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You won't find commentary and language any more hostile to Hugo Chavez than on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Their June 23 piece by Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the Americas column is a clear, jaw-dropping example. It's practically b...

Znet Article Sprague: Reverse Solidarity

Znet Article, June, 21 2006 Jeb Sprague
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  Dennis Bernstein/ Flashpoints: Many in the U.S. see the AFL-CIO as a huge effective union [federation] representing tens of thousands of workers in this country, which may be true and is but it is not widely understood that the union joined han...

Znet Article Dangl: 1491

Znet Article, June, 19 2006 Ben Dangl
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In many high school history classes students are told that before Columbus arrived the Americas were full of untamed wilderness loosely populated with savage Indians. Charles Mann’s book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columb...

Znet Article Fernandes: Trade Treaties and Challenging US Hegemony in the Americas

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Sujatha Fernandes
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Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez, Brazil’s president Lula Inacio da Silva, and Nestor Kirchner, president of Argentina, met in Sao Paulo, Brazil on April 26 to discuss possibilities for integration and collaboration. On April 29,...

Znet Article Grandin: The Rebel and Mr. Danger

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Greg Grandin
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There is something quaint—flattering, even—about the way Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez insists on calling George W. Bush “Mr. Danger.” The taunt, which Chávez delivers in English with rolled-out vowels and pinc...

Znet Article Lendman: Sham US Proposal to Iran

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Stephen Lendman
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It may be a new month, but it's the same old Wall Street Journal trumpeting the latest US gambit designed to hide its real intentions toward Iran. Again it was in a front page feature story on June 1 headlined: "In Shift, U.S. Offers to Talk to Ir...

Znet Article Galeano: Interviewing Galeano

Znet Article, May, 20 2006 Eduardo Galeano
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JUAN GONZALEZ: We spend the rest of the hour with one of Latin America's most acclaimed writers: Eduardo Galeano. His works from the trilogy Memory of Fire to the classic Open Veins of Latin America are a unique blend of history, fiction, journali...

Znet Article Podur: The May 15 Mobilizations in Colombia

Znet Article, May, 17 2006 Justin Podur
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Colombia's peasant, indigenous, and union organizations called for a major mobilization on May 15, 2006. With elections on May 28, 2006, the organizations sought to demonstrate their opposition to the Colombian regime's Free Trade Agreement with t...

Znet Article Burbach: Bolivia's Realignment

Znet Article, May, 08 2006 Roger Burbach
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With the nationalization of Bolivia's natural gas and petroleum resources President Evo Morales, the country's first Indian president, is dramatically reshaping his country's destiny. On May 1st he proclaimed "an historic day has arrived. Now the ...

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