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Chomsky: VII Social Summit for the Latin American and Caribbean Unity
Znet Article, September, 29 2008
Noam Chomsky
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During the past decade, Latin America has become the most exciting region of the world. The dynamic has very largely flowed from right where you are meeting, in Caracas, with the election of a leftist president dedicated to using Venezuela’s rich ...
Albert: Politics In Venezuela
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An extensive interview about the polity in Venezuela, held with Julio Chavez, Mayor of Carora and prominent activist in all dimensions of the Bolivarian Revolution, especially concerning the Communal Councils.
Albert: Venezuelan Legal System: An Interview with Fernando Ramón Vegas Torrealba
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert went to Venezuela in early September and interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian Revolution. This one is about the role of the law and legal system, held with Fernando Ramón Vegas Torrealba, justice of the Venezuelan Suprem...
Castro: Playing The Good Guy Role At Our Expense?
Znet Article, September, 19 2008
Fidel Castro
Castro's ZSpace page
When the US administration hypocritically offered $100,000 in aid to cope with the catastrophe caused by hurricane Gustav -- after an in situ inspection to assess the damages -- the response was that Cuba could not accept any donation from the c...
Suggett: South American Presidents Unite to Defend Bolivia Against Destabilization
Znet Article, September, 17 2008
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
Mérida, September 16, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the leaders of 11 other South American nations held an emergency meeting of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in Santiago, Chile, Monday to form a ...
Weisbrot: "Revolt of the Rich"
Znet Article, September, 17 2008
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Newsweek's Michael Miller recently interviewed CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot regarding the situation in Bolivia, where violence by right-wing groups, in conjunction with opposition prefects and politicians, claimed the lives of dozens of people a...
Dangl: The Machine Gun and The Meeting Table: Bolivian Crisis in a New South America
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
On Monday, September 15, Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived in Santiago, Chile for an emergency meeting of Latin American leaders that convened to seek a resolution to the recent conflict in Bolivia. Upon his arrival, Morales said, "I have com...
Podur: Bolivia’s elites seek a media coup
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Bolivia's popular movements are attempting to use democracy and a legitimate government to advance an agenda of sovereignty, greater equality, and development. Their opponents, led by several governors of the wealthier provinces in a part of the c...
Mondragon: On my choice of civil resistance
Znet Article, September, 10 2008
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
[Translator's introduction: this statement is a response to an August 29/08 article in El Tiempo, Colombia's national newspaper, which claims that an email to Hector Mondragon was found on the laptop of FARC guerrilla leader Raul Reyes, who was as...
Castro: A Nuclear Strike
Znet Article, September, 05 2008
Fidel Castro
Castro's ZSpace page
It is not an overstatement. This is the general expression of many compatriots. It is the impression of the Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General of the Alvaro Lopez Miera, an experienced career soldier, when he saw in the Isla de la Juventud ...
Podur: The desperate lies of a criminal regime
Znet Article, August, 30 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
So now the computer of an assassinated guerrilla leader, a computer that survived a missile attack and 48 hours of tampering by Colombian authorities according to INTERPOL, yields email evidence "linking" the decimated guerrillas to a peace activi...
Podur: The Para-Uribe Regime, the Extraditions, and Justice in Colombia
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Colombia's current President Alvaro Uribe Velez’ political history is intimately tied with paramilitarism. He was mayor of the then drug-trafficker controlled Medellin in 1982, and when he became governor of Antioquia in 1995-1997, he supported th...
Weisbrot: Bolivia: Can The Majority of People Vote for Change and Actually Get It?
Znet Article, August, 15 2008
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Evo Morales changed the history of Bolivia when he was elected in December 2005 as the country's first indigenous president, and the first to get a majority of 54 percent. On Sunday he expanded his mandate considerably in a referendum, with 68 per...
Lyubarsky: Bolivian Referendum Analysis
Znet Article, August, 13 2008
Andrew Lyubarsky
Lyubarsky's ZSpace page
For the Movimiento a Socialismo and Evo Morales, Sunday was indubitably a good day. After having won the Bolivian presidency in 2005 with approximately 54% of the popular vote, Evo surprised everyone by not only winning the recall referendum convo...
Suggett: Land Reform Conflict in Venezuela’s Strategic Water Source
Znet Article, August, 13 2008
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government’s land reform programs were attacked last Thursday by armed and masked men who, the farmers say, were hired by large estate owners in the area to cut short the changes heralde...
Emersberger: Iachr Denounces Haiti For Political Persecution Of Yvon Neptune
Znet Article, July, 24 2008
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has made public a 60-page denunciation of the political persecution that Yvon Neptune, a former Prime Minister of Haiti, has endured at the hands of the Haitian government for the past four years. "...
Galeano: Latin America A Kingdom of Paradoxes
Znet Article, July, 23 2008
Eduardo Galeano
Galeano's ZSpace page
Our region is the kingdom of paradoxes. Take the case of Brazil: paradoxically, Aleijadinho, the ugliest man in Brazil, created the highest art of the colonial epoch; paradoxically Garrincha, ruined from childhood by poverty and polio, born to mis...
Albert: Which Way Venezuela?
Znet Article, July, 23 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed. Misrepresentations abound. Data is limited and people interpret it in contrary ways. Information deficit plus skewed interpretat...
Zibechi: Post-FARC Scenarios
Znet Article, July, 22 2008
Raúl Zibechi
Zibechi's ZSpace page
In the first quarter of 2008, a strong political shift has emerged, which allows the local and global rightwing and multinational corporations to regain their positions and boost their offensives. This shift is not limited to Colombia, which repre...
Podur: Ingrid Betancourt Released
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Colombia's most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed in a military operation by the Colombian armed forces. This is a major event in Colombian politics a...
