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Gindin: Deepening the Bolivarian Revolution
Znet Article, August, 25 2004
Jonah Gindin
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On Sunday, August 15th Venezuela lined up to vote. Beginning as early...
Gindin: Beyond Populism: Venezuela and the International Left
Znet Article, August, 21 2004
Jonah Gindin
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All over the world, the international Left -- including the global social justice movement -- is peering sceptically at Venezuela, unsure of what to make of President Hugo Chavez' alleged democratic revolution. Is Chavez the next Allende? Is t...
Scipes: International Income Inequality: Whither the United States?
Znet Article, August, 18 2004
Kim Scipes
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We hear ad nauseum from the mainstream media, and particularly the business-focused press, that the United Sta...
Vltchek: Defending Venezuela
Znet Article, August, 17 2004
Andre Vltchek
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Those of us who lived and worked in Latin America were glued to the television sets and computer monitors, following an outcome of referendum in Venezuela, organized by the right wing opposition supported by the United States. Those of us who beli...
Podur: The Venezuelan Referendum Ends
Znet Article, August, 16 2004
Justin Podur
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At the tim...
Podur: The Calm Before the?
Znet Article, August, 15 2004
Justin Podur
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Today is the day before the referendum. Not only is campaigning formally closed, but there is also a law in effect, quite common in Latin America, that no alcohol is to be sold or consumed until well after the referendum. And...
Podur: Venezuela:Florentino The Devil And The Opposition
Znet Article, August, 14 2004
Justin Podur
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Last night was the closing of the referendum campaign. It closed with huge marches of the opposition and the chavistas. They say the opposition march was the biggest ever—one estimate I heard, from a journalist who was at the Madrid demo...
Gindin: Subverting Democracy
Znet Article, August, 14 2004
Jonah Gindin
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When in 1998 former paratrooper Hugo Rafael Chávez FrÃas was elected President on a revolutionary mandate to completely rewire Venezuela’s elite-based ‘democracy’, the opposition lay in shambles. So complete was their d...
Podur: In Caracas
Znet Article, August, 13 2004
Justin Podur
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It has been an interesting night and day. I have spent a substantial portion of the past 24 hours listening to Chavez speak. The man speaks a lot. But let me explain. Fear... My interest in Venezuela started with my interest ...
Ali: Chavez Will Win In Venezuela
Znet Article, August, 11 2004
Tariq Ali
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Claudia Jardim and Jonah Gindin spoke to veteran political activist and author Tariq Ali, during his recent trip to Caracas, about Venezuela and Latin American resistance to US neoliberalism. How do you explain the explosion in social movemen...
Palast: Venezuela Floridated
Znet Article, August, 11 2004
Greg Palast
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Hugo Chavez drives George Bush crazy. Maybe it's jealousy: Unlike Mr. Bush, Chavez, in Venezuela, won his Presidency by a majority of the vote. Or maybe it's the oil: Venezuela sits atop a reserve rivaling Iraq's. And Hugo thinks the US and Bri...
Podur: Colombia and Venezuela
Znet Article, August, 04 2004
Justin Podur
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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 ...
Klein: Anybody But Bush -- then back to work!
Znet Article, August, 01 2004
Naomi Klein
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Last month, I reluctantly joined the Anybody But Bush camp. It was "Bush in a Box" that finally got me, a gag gift my brother gave my father on his 66th birthday. Bush in a Box is a cardboard cut-out of President 43 with a set of adhesive speech b...
Wilpert: Oil and the Venezuelan State
Znet Article, July, 27 2004
Gregory Wilpert
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Ali Rodriguez is the president of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA. He is one of the Venezuelan Left’s main oil industry experts, having served for many years as member of the congressional committee that oversees oil iss...
Podur: Canada for anti-imperialists
Znet Article, July, 03 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Based on a talk given to the 'Nageh' community group on June 11, 2004, in Toronto. Part 1 of 2. Go to part 2 The United States is engaging in a bloody occupation in Iraq; it overthrew the democratically-elected regime in Haiti and pos...
Podur: Canada for anti-imperialists, Part II
Znet Article, July, 03 2004
Justin Podur
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Back to Part I From local 'threats' to global 'threats' Desmond Morton, another completely mainstream and conventional historian, nevertheless makes a good point about the implications of Canada's military relationship with the US. The onl...
Landau: Buzz Words And Venezuela
Znet Article, July, 01 2004
Saul Landau
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"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...
Shalom: Down with King George!
Znet Article, June, 30 2004
Stephen1 Shalom
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The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for...
Bello: Empire and Resistance Today
Znet Article, June, 25 2004
Walden Bello
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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...
