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Znet Article Burbach: Chavez Renewed Latin America and Revived Socialism

Znet Article, March, 07 2013 Roger Burbach
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Hugo Chavez cut a wide swath on the international scene, putting forth a vision of a world based on equitable relations among nations and peoples

Znet Article Burbach: Chilean Student Movement Leads Uprising For Transformation of the Country

Znet Article, August, 14 2011 Roger Burbach
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Chile is becoming a part of the global movement of youth that is transforming the world

Commentary Burbach: Communitarian Socialism in Bolivia

Commentary, April, 08 2010 Roger Burbach
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During the past decade Latin America has become a scene of hope and expectations as its leaders and social movements have raised the banner of 21st century socialism in a world ravished by imperial adventures and economic disasters. Proponents of ...

Zmag Article Burbach: The Social Earthquake in Chile

Zmag Article, March, 28 2010 Roger Burbach
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Neoliberal policies and effects, further exposed by quake

Zmag Article Burbach: Movements Face Off with Ecuador's President Correa

Zmag Article, February, 23 2010 Roger Burbach
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Disenchantment with increasingly corporate policies in Ecuador

Znet Article Burbach: Ecuador's Neo-Liberal Model

Znet Article, February, 08 2010 Roger Burbach
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Beginning his fourth year as president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa confronts a major challenge from some of the very social actors that propelled him into office, primarily over the control of the country's extractive resources.

Zmag Article Burbach: Honduran Coup Tries to Halt Advance of Latin American Left

Zmag Article, September, 01 2009 Roger Burbach
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Replacing a president and quashing a proposed plebiscite

Znet Article Burbach: Obama and Hillary Nix Change in Honduras

Znet Article, July, 27 2009 Roger Burbach
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The situation in Honduras and Central America is growing increasingly tumultuous with each passing day as deposed President Manuel Zelaya confronts the de facto regime of Roberto Micheletti with thousands of partisans mobilizing in the border area...

Znet Article Burbach: Honduran Coup Tries to Halt Advance of Latin American Left

Znet Article, July, 03 2009 Roger Burbach
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The coup against Manuel Zelaya of Honduras represents a last ditch effort by Honduras’ entrenched economic and political interests to stave off the advance of the new left governments that have taken hold in Latin America over the past decade. A...

Znet Article Burbach: Et Tu, Daniel? The Sandinista Revolution Betrayed

Znet Article, March, 06 2009 Roger Burbach
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Upon his inauguration as Nicaraguan president in January 2007, Daniel Ortega asserted that his government would represent “the second stage of the Sandinista Revolution.” His election was full of symbolic resonance, coming after 16 years of el...

Znet Article Burbach: The United States: Orchestrating a Civic Coup in Bolivia

Znet Article, November, 19 2008 Roger Burbach
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livian President Evo Morales is visiting the United Nations and the Organization of American States this week to report on the recent US coup attempt against his government. He will also meet with members of Congress to deal with “the worst diplom...

Znet Article Kerssen: Bolivia’s Popular Upheaval

Znet Article, September, 23 2008 Tanya Kerssen
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A popular upheaval is sweeping Bolivia, threatening the departmental capital of Santa Cruz, the bastion of the right wing rebellion against the government of Evo Morales. Some twenty thousand miners, peasants and coca growers are moving on the cit...

Znet Article Burbach: Bolivia and the Echoes of Allende Morales Confronts the Insurrection

Znet Article, September, 17 2008 Roger Burbach
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As Bolivia teeters on the brink of civil war, President Evo Morales staunchly maintains his commitment to constructing a popular democracy by working within the state institutions that brought him to power. The show down with the right wing is tak...

Znet Article Burbach: United States maneuvers to carve up Bolivia with autonomy vote

Znet Article, May, 06 2008 Roger Burbach
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The illegal referendum held on Sunday to declare autonomy in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s richest province, is backed by the Bush administration in an attempt to halt the leftward drift of South America. While the US embassy in La Paz blandly declares it...

Znet Article Burbach: The Final Battle in Bolivia

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Roger Burbach
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Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linares states, “Either we now consolidate the new state…with the new dominant forces behind us, or we will move backwards and the old forces will again predominate.” A leading trade union leader, Edgar Patana, put it ...

Zmag Article Burbach: Ecuador’s President Takes Tough Stand

Zmag Article, April, 01 2007 Roger Burbach
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E cuador’s leftist government —led by Rafael Correa who won the presidency in a November runoff election—has moved assertively in its relations with the United States during its f...

Znet Article Burbach: Ecuador's Nascent Leftist Government Victorious in Confrontation with Right

Znet Article, March, 25 2007 Roger Burbach
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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...

Znet Article Burbach: Bush Trip to Counter Chavez is Destined to Fail

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Roger Burbach
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Bush's trip to Latin America is a calculated effort to counter Hugo Chavez's growing influence in the region and to separate the "bad left" from the "good left", namely Uruguay and to some extent Brazil. He hopes to add them to the dwindling bloc ...

Znet Article Burbach: The Atrocities of Augusto Pinochet and the United States

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Roger Burbach
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In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist pre...

Znet Article Burbach: Confrontation in Bolivia over Agrarian Reform

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Roger Burbach
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The government of Evo Morales and the indigenous social movements of Bolivia have won an historic victory with the passage of an agrarian reform law that calls for the "expropriation of lands" that "do not serve a just social-economic function." A...

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