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Support collective: Bolivian Opposition Blockades Intensify Despite Repression
Znet Article, January, 22 2003
Mobilization Support collective
Support collective's ZSpace page
Asies_bolivia@yahoo.com Bulletin #1 January 20, 2003 Translated by Forrest Hylton On Sunday, January 19, the seventh day of mobilizations and blockades in Bolivia, a Joint Chiefs of Staff of the People was established in the city of Cochabamb...
Street: Big Brother Bush, "Suicidal Saddam", And The Homegrown Threat To Liberal Democracy
Znet Article, January, 22 2003
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Beyond Democratic Constraint? It is hard to avoid the chilling conclusion that the corporate plutocrats and arch-imperialists in and around the Bush administration do not think they are required to speak or act with even moderate respect for the...
Dieterich steffan: Ronald Reagan And The Venezuelan Strikes
Znet Article, January, 20 2003
Heinz Dieterich steffan
Dieterich steffan's ZSpace page
Translated by José Luna On August 3, 1981 around 13,000 air controllers in the U.S. went to strike after failed negotiations with the federal government. The strike aimed at an improvement in wages as well as reductions on working hours. That sa...
Administrator: Latin America Strikes Back
Znet Article, January, 20 2003
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
I recently attended the OCLAE conference, a gathering of progressive students in Guadalajara, Mexico, which brought together more than a thousand delegates from across Latin America - and some sympathetic norteamericanos - to discuss and plan stra...
Valentine: The Process and the 'Strike'
Znet Article, January, 19 2003
Diana Valentine
Valentine's ZSpace page
In January 2003, a delegation from the US-based Venezuela Solidarity Group (VSG) visited Venezuela on a fact-finding mission. In a previous interview Diana Valentine from the VSG discussed the so-called 'National Strike', the strength of sup...
Pilger: We Say No To Bush's War: Voices Of The Anti War Opposition
Znet Article, January, 16 2003
John Pilger
Pilger's ZSpace page
Socialist Worker has compiled an excellent anti war q&a based on interviews conducted with many different voices of the anti-war movement. Norman Solomon: Scene of a war crime to come You were recently in Baghdad. What do you think of the Bu...
Ezln: Speeches on Anniversary of Zapatista Uprising
Znet Article, January, 14 2003
Comandancia Ezln
Ezln's ZSpace page
Comandante Bruce Lee Through my voice speaks the EZLN. Brothers and sisters, I am going to say some words for the indigenous people of Mexico. We the Zapatistas are the ones who took up arms in the year 1994, for a just and dignified cause that f...
Ezln: Speeches on Anniversary of Zapatista Uprising
Znet Article, January, 14 2003
Comandancia Ezln
Ezln's ZSpace page
[The following are the speeches delivered by the EZLN comandancia to 20,000 Zapatista supporters who marched in San Cristobal on Jan 1, 2003, the anniversary of the 1994 Zapatista uprising. Translated by laura] Comandante Bruce Lee Through...
Weisbrot: A Split Screen In Strike Torn Venezuela
Znet Article, January, 13 2003
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Walking around Caracas late last month during Venezuela's ongoing protests, I was surprised by what I saw. My expectations had been shaped by persistent U.S. media coverage of the nationwide strike called by the opposition, which seeks President H...
Valentine: Slow, low intensity, (so far largely bloodless), class warfare
Znet Article, January, 12 2003
Diana Valentine
Valentine's ZSpace page
Venezuela’s ‘National Strike’ has been going on for over a month. The opposition, who attempted a military coup in April 2002, has attempted to shut down the economy, and especially the oil industry, of the country in...
Chavez: Lessons of the April Coup
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Hugo Chavez
Chavez's ZSpace page
[Translated by Alejandro Palavecino and Susan Nerberg. This is Part II of a long interview of Hugo Chavez conducted by Marta Harnecker and originally published in October 2002. It is long, an excerpt from a book, and so has been split ...
Chavez: The Military and the Revolution
Znet Article, January, 09 2003
Hugo Chavez
Chavez's ZSpace page
The Military and the Revolution
Mondragon: Of "Lungos" And "Senoritos" A Colombian View Of Venezuela
Commentary, January, 02 2003
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
At the petroleum refinery of Barrancabermeja the workers who
Wilpert: The OAS-mediated negotiations, the strike, and other recent events
Zmag Article, January, 01 2003
Gregory Wilpert
Wilpert's ZSpace page
C ésar Gaviria, the General Secretary of the OAS, has the unenviable job of mediating negotiations between Venezuela's government and its opposition, while the political situation deteriorates...
Herman: How the pitbull manages his poodles
Zmag Article, January, 01 2003
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
W hen U.S. officials declare that there is a dire threat from some hapless small country that they have put on their hit list, their foreign poodles are quickly brought in line and agree that, yes,...
Marcos: Various and Sundry
Znet Article, December, 31 2002
Subcomandante Marcos
Marcos's ZSpace page
Zapatista Army of National Liberation: Mexico, December 29, 2002. To Whom It May Concern: Greetings. Yes, the cold and rain are encircling us in their embrace, and not even a bonfire made up of all the criticisms they have sent me (us) can m...
Deutsch: Protecting Democracy in Venezuela
Graphic, December, 24 2002
Barry Deutsch
Deutsch's ZSpace page
NED, National Endowment for Democracy, Venezuela, Chavez, Foreign Policy, latin america
Ralston: December 20th in Argentina
Znet Article, December, 23 2002
Erin Ralston
Ralston's ZSpace page
Two weeks ago I ran into a fellow American in Buenos Aires. He's a journalist living there. We had met before, thus we engaged in the meaningless chitchat that marks such occassions. "Are you going home for the holidays?" I asked. He assured me he...
Feder: AP's One Sided Venezuela Coverage
Znet Article, December, 20 2002
Dan Feder
Feder's ZSpace page
The statement seemed clear enough. After a total of 25 hours of negotiations that framed this past weekend, the Organization of American States - representing 34 governments - released a much-awaited declaration on the crisis in Venezuela. The OAS...
Weisbrot: US is still intervening in Venezuela
Znet Article, December, 18 2002
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
CARACAS (Dec. 18) "Where are they getting their money?" asks historian Samuel Moncada, as the television displays one opposition commercial after another. Moncada is chair of the history department at Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. We...
