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Znet Article Solo: Turning The Hour-Glass - The Empire Against The Clock

Znet Article, August, 24 2005 Toni Solo
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The objectives of empire change very little from one century to another. Control of and access to energy and mining resources are only one strong motive driving imperial policy in Latin America. Control over food and water security is also a vital...

Znet Article Holloway: Can We Change The World Without Taking Power?

Znet Article, August, 16 2005 John Holloway
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John Holloway: I don’t know the answer. Perhaps we can change the world without taking power. Perhaps we cannot. The starting point—for all of us, I think—is uncertainty, not knowing, a common search for a way forward. Bec...

Znet Article Solo: Ecuador

Znet Article, August, 15 2005 Toni Solo
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Just as the long-standing political crisis in Bolivia hangs fire pending future elections, so too in Ecuador people await some serious attempt at a new political settlement. In both countries the fundamental cause of unrest is widespread popular r...

Znet Article Munckton: OAS: Washington loses — again

Znet Article, June, 21 2005 Stuart Munckton
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Washington’s increasing isolation in the Americas — its own backyard — was dramatically illustrated at the 35th general assembly of the Organization of American States, held June 5-7 at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. After fai...

Znet Article Friedsky: Bolivia's Gas War Moves Inside

Znet Article, June, 16 2005 Jean Friedsky
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The images of a returning "normality" in the capital of Bolivia are seductive. Fleets of oversized pick-up trucks filled with thousands of gas cisterns roll out of the Senkata Gas Plant in El Alto, past police guards who stand chatting next to the...

Znet Article Robinson: The Battle for Global Civil Society

Znet Article, June, 13 2005 William i. Robinson
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Over the past two decades US foreign policy has radically changed. While the interests and objectives have remained more or less the same despite the fall of Communism, the mechanisms for obtaining them have continued to evolve. Beginning in the e...

Znet Article Friedsky: A Decision to Make

Znet Article, June, 10 2005 Jean Friedsky
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Bolivia has a new President. This news comes at the end of a day in which the nation seemed to be heading towards extreme crisis. Under duress from social movements who declared that under no conditions would they accept the Presidency of Senate P...

Znet Article Gindin: Latin America and Venezuela Promote Holistic Vision Despite US

Znet Article, June, 09 2005 Jonah Gindin
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL.—The 35th Organization of American States General Assembly (OASGA) closed this evening, after approving a joint declaration aimed at “Delivering the Benefits of Democracy.” The “Declaration of Flo...

Znet Article González: 'War on Terror' Has Indigenous People in Its Sights

Znet Article, June, 08 2005 Gustavo González
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SANTIAGO, Jun 6 (IPS) - The "war on terror", identified in Amnesty International's annual report as a new source of human rights abuses, is threatening to expand to Latin America, targeting indigenous movements that are demanding autonomy and prot...

Znet Article Lewis: Is Bolivia on the edge of revolution?

Znet Article, June, 08 2005 Tom Lewis
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BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT Carlos Mesa was driven out of office June 6 following weeks of escalating protests demanding nationalization of the country’s natural gas resources. Who would succeed Mesa was still uncertain as Socialist Worker went to...

Znet Article Buxton: Trying to reverse the tide

Znet Article, June, 07 2005 Nick Buxton
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Bolivia was hailed a model pupil by the IMF in the 1990s for its government’s wholehearted embrace of neo-liberal reforms. But they reckoned without the backlash of the impoverished and largely indigenous majority who have since 2003 incre...

Znet Article Wagner: Knocking over Dominos in Latin America

Znet Article, May, 29 2005 Sarah Wagner
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On Monday, May 16th tens of thousands of Bolivian Indigenous descended from the shantytowns surrounding La Paz, the capital, demanding that the government of Carlos Mesa increase royalties on foreign transnational corporations from 18% to 50%. By ...

Znet Article Webber: Nationalization!

Znet Article, May, 25 2005 Jeffery r. Webber
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Monday morning marked the end of the almost two hundred kilometre, four-day march of around six thousand peasants, coca growers, and others from Caracollo to El Alto. This march was led by the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, under the leade...

Znet Article Spronk: International Solidarity for the Struggle for Water Justice in El Alto, Bolivia

Znet Article, May, 10 2005 Susan Spronk
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Tired of high connection fees and demanding expansion of service, thousands of citizens of El Alto took to the street earlier this year to pressure the government to return water to public control. The water and sanitary sewerage system was privat...

Znet Article Webber: Bolivia Back to the Streets? Natural Gas and Popular Struggle

Znet Article, May, 09 2005 Jeffery r. Webber
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After about a month and a half of relative dormancy, the beginning of last week saw the first interesting signs of renewed life from popular forces in Bolivia. On Monday, May 3, three congressmen and one senator of the party Movement Toward Social...

Znet Article Chavez: Capitalism Is Savagery.

Znet Article, April, 10 2005 Hugo Chavez
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The following are excerpts from a speech given by Hugo Chávez at Gigantinho Stadium during the 2005 World Social Forum. A DVD containing the entire speech is available at the Z Store. To find out more, click here. Inspiration. Ignacio Ramonet...

Znet Article Fuentes: Bolivia: A Nation Holds Its Breath

Znet Article, March, 29 2005 Federico Fuentes
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As the dust settles from a wave of mobilisations that paralysed a nation, Bolivia finds itself with a president increasingly unable to govern. Once again, the indigenous peoples of Bolivia have shown that real power lies in the streets. On March...

Znet Article Bello: Iraq, the U.S., and the Challenges to the Global Peace Movement

Znet Article, March, 20 2005 Walden Bello
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Speech delivered in Vancouver, Canada, at an event sponsored by StopWar.ca, March 18, 2005, held on the occasion of the March 19-20 Global Protest against the War in Iraq. Over the next few days, millions of people throughout the world, from V...

Znet Article Franklin: Who's Afraid Of Venezuela-Cuba Alliance?

Znet Article, March, 14 2005 Jane Franklin
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For a long time there was only one country in Latin America offering free health care to all its citizens. Now there are two. The governments of both countries regard health care as a basic human right. So Cuba, rich in health care, and Venezuela,...

Znet Article Giordano: Mexico US inspired Coup d'etat

Znet Article, February, 22 2005 Al Giordano
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LACANDON JUNGLE, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Word has been sent from Washington: Mexico’s leading presidential candidate must be stopped, at all costs, from mounting his candidacy. A new kind of coup d’etat has been hatched to strip Mexico ...

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