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Kozloff: Venezuela: Prospects Fading For Truly Revolutionary Change
Znet Article, January, 05 2013
Nikolas Kozloff
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If Chavez was serious about the "revolutionary change", he would have devised a plan to "dismantle the petro state"
Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Washington and Brasilia Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean
Znet Article, September, 01 2011
Nikolas Kozloff
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WikiLeaks documents reveal that Brazil may have shared Washington's concern over Chávez's rising geopolitical importance
Kozloff: Coca Colla: Its the Real Thing
Znet Article, March, 31 2010
Nikolas Kozloff
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The Andean nations indigenous people have long resented the U.S. beverage company for usurping the name of their sacred coca leaf. Now, they are aiming to take back their heritage. Recently, the government of Evo Morales announced that it would ...
Kozloff: Countdown to Copenhagen: Suing the Global North for Glacial Pace on Climate Change
Znet Article, October, 30 2009
Nikolas Kozloff
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Fed up with the glacial pace of climate negotiations and the unwillingness of the Global North to address their concerns, Indians and environmentalists in South America have come up with a shrewd new way of drawing the worlds attention. Meeting r...
Kozloff: Zelaya, Negroponte
Znet Article, July, 21 2009
Nikolas Kozloff
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The mainstream media has once again dropped the ball on a key aspect of the ongoing story in Honduras: the U.S. airbase at Soto Cano, also known as Palmerola. Prior to the recent military coup detat President Manuel Zelaya declared that he would ...
Kozloff: Obama and Honduras
Znet Article, July, 19 2009
Nikolas Kozloff
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Liberals who have idealized Obama don’t want to believe that their President is capable of bullish behavior towards Latin America. It was Bush, they say, who epitomized arrogant U.S.-style imperialism and not the new resident of 1600 Pennsylvan...
Kozloff: Who’s Behind Honduras Destabilization?
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Nikolas Kozloff
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Behind the recent pressure campaign against the Zelaya regime in Honduras lurks a shadowy world of right wing foundations, lobbying groups and anti-Chávez figures. This tangled web of Washington, D.C. interests includes the Arcadia Foundation, a...
Kozloff: Senhor da Silva Comes To Washington: No More Brazilian Wedge Against Venezuela?
Znet Article, March, 15 2009
Nikolas Kozloff
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One year later with a fresh Democratic administration in Washington, what is the U.S. attitude towards different left leaning regimes in South America? That is the question posed by a recent article in Time magazine, provocatively headlined "Brazi...
Kozloff: The Stimulus Imbroglio: What Obama Might Have Learned from Chávez and Populist-Style Mobilization
Znet Article, February, 10 2009
Nikolas Kozloff
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When historians look back, they will point to Obama's inauguration as a missed opportunity. At the zenith of his popularity, the new President might have used his bully pulpit to declare the need for a good economic stimulus, one which would have...
Kozloff: From Spain to South America: McCain’s Axis of Evil
Znet Article, September, 27 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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Last week, John McCain set off a political firestorm when he suggested that he might not meet with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in the White House. Speaking to a reporter from Spanish-language Union Radio, McCain said “Hone...
Kozloff: “Macaca,” Gaffe Rears Ugly Head in Bolivia
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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In a careless slip of the tongue in August, 2006 Virginia Senator George Allen shot himself in the foot and ended his political career. During a campaign rally Allen pointed to a man of Indian descent and remarked “This fellow here, over here wit...
Kozloff: Obama’s Sobering Choices
Znet Article, September, 13 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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Since the inception of the presidential campaign Barack Obama has promised to transcend America’s petty and divisive politics. During a recent appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, the Illinois Senator remarked that the U.S. was in the mi...
Kozloff: The Next Cuban Missile Crisis?
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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In a move that undoubtedly set off alarm bells in Washington, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced that Venezuelan and Russian ships could soon hold joint naval exercises in the Caribbean.
Kozloff: Showdown at the Oval Office
Znet Article, September, 05 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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In light of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it’s difficult to imagine how any neo-conservative could possibly be dissatisfied with George Bush’s handling of foreign policy. And yet, incredibly some on the far right believe that the President has someh...
Kozloff: McCain Roughing Up Sandinista: Smoking Gun in Campaign ’08?
Znet Article, August, 27 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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Speaking at a news conference during a recent trip to Colombia, Republican presidential candidate John McCain remarked, “I must say, I did not admire the [Nicaraguan] Sandinistas much.” It’s the understatement of the century...
Kozloff: Danny Glover, Haiti, and the Politics of Revolutionary Cinema in Venezuela
Znet Article, August, 11 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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Since the inception of the oil industry in the early twentieth century, Venezuela has had strong cultural ties to the United States. President Hugo Chávez however has sought to change this by cultivating a sense of cultural nationalism in his coun...
Kozloff: Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left
Book, August, 10 2008
In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. From Hugo Chávez in Venezuela to Evo Morales, the indigenous head of state of Bolivia, and M...
Kozloff: Ten Years On, Bolivarian Revolution at Crossroad
Znet Article, July, 21 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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In 2006, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez was at the height of his political powers. Traveling to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, he delivered his by now infamous broadside attacking George Bush as “the devil.” After delivering his...
Kozloff: Planet of the Apes Has Arrived, and It Is Spain
Znet Article, July, 03 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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Visiting Spain’s Barcelona zoo as a child, I was greeted to a memorable sight. In one of the cages sat a gorilla, but not just any primate. I had come face to face with the legendary albino ape “Little Snowflake.” Because of Snowflake’s white c...
Kozloff: The Audacity of Vagueness
Znet Article, March, 04 2008
Nikolas Kozloff
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As the U.S. presidential campaign heats up, Barack Obama, the likely Democratic nominee, has not been very eager to comprehensively address Latin America as an issue. In recent years, the region has undergone a major tectonic shift towards the lef...
