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Znet Article Weisbrot: Independent Latin America Forms Its Own Organization

Znet Article, February, 26 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organization of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The United States and Canada were excluded.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Honduran Dictatorship Is A Threat to Democracy In the Hemisphere

Znet Article, November, 19 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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A small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and take him into exile. They then arrest thousands of people opposed to the coup, shut down and intimidate i...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Ecuador, Bolivia Show that Even Small Developing Countries Can Pursue Independent Economic Policies, Stand Up for Their Rights, and Win

Znet Article, October, 28 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Among the conventional wisdom that we hear everyday in the business press is that developing countries should bend over backwards to create a friendly climate for foreign corporations, follow orthodox (neoliberal) macroeconomic policy advice, and ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The G20 Fantasy

Znet Article, September, 27 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The G20 is not a system of international economic co-operation, or a board of directors, or a governing council for the global economy, to pick some of the terms that have appeared in the media. It is a forum where the heads of state of 20 economi...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" Will Find a Ready Audience

Znet Article, September, 10 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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When I first met Michael Moore more than 20 years ago he was showing a half-finished documentary to a few dozen people in a classroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was funny and poignant and had a powerful message. He had taken a second mortgage on h...

Znet Article Weisbrot: IMF Gives $164 million to Coup Government in Honduras, Following Familiar Pattern

Znet Article, September, 03 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The IMF is undergoing an unprecedented expansion of its access to resources, possibly reaching a trillion dollars. This week the European Union committed $175 billion, $67 billion more than even the $108 billion that Washington agreed to fork over...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Public Still Ahead Of Its Leaders on Foreign Policy

Znet Article, August, 27 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Americans are famous for not paying much attention to the rest of the world, and it is often said that foreign wars are the way that we learn geography. But most often it is not the people who have little direct experience outside their own countr...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Trade Adjustments and Stimulus Packages in the Global Recession and Recovery

Znet Article, July, 25 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Global trade flows and the economic stimulus policies of individual national economies will play an important role in the recovery from the current global recession. This is especially true of the world's two largest economies, the United States a...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Hondurans Resist Coup, Will Need Help From Other Countries

Znet Article, July, 08 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The military coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras took a new turn when Zelaya attempted to return home on Sunday. The military closed the airport and blocked runways to prevent his plane from landing. They also shot several prot...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Latin America Drags a Reluctant Washington Into Supporting Democracy in Honduras

Znet Article, July, 01 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The military coup that overthrew Honduras' elected president Manuel Zelaya brought unanimous international condemnation. But some country's responses have been more reluctant than others, and Washington's ambivalence has begun to raise suspicions ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Stealth Move in Washington Aims to Get $100 Billion for IMF Without Congressional Debate

Znet Article, May, 14 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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In almost all of its standby arrangements negotiated over the last year, the IMF has included conditions that will reduce output and employment in situations where economies are already shrinking.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Ecuador's Election Shows Why Left Continues Winning in Hard Times

Znet Article, May, 01 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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A few months ago I ran into an economist who was formerly head of the Bolivian Central Bank in the La Paz airport. He had been reading Roubini, the New York University economist whom the media has nicknamed "Dr. Doom", and was predicting a very gl...

Znet Article Weisbrot: "Deeds, Not Words" Will Determine Future of U.S.-Latin American Relations

Znet Article, April, 23 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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What is the opposite of "damage control?" Repair control? Obama's Latin America advisor and director for the Summit of the Americas Jeffrey Davidow did his best to undermine the president's efforts at diplomacy in Trinidad. Responding immediate...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Obama Team Could Use Some "Audacity of Hope" for Latin America Summit

Znet Article, April, 17 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Many people, including most of the presidents in South America, were hoping that President Obama would initiate a serious change in U.S.-Latin American relations, after the low point reached during the Bush years. Change will certainly come - it i...

Znet Article Weisbrot: G-20: Welcome to the Multi-Polar World

Znet Article, April, 01 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Welcome to the multi-polar world. It's not here yet but the direction is clear. President Obama will discover this week that as much as he is loved and respected around the world, he can't reverse the declining influence of Washington that his pre...

Znet Article Weisbrot: G-20 Should Think Twice About Increasing IMF Funding Without Reforms

Znet Article, March, 25 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The G-20 summit meeting in London on April 2nd will have a lot on its plate and will certainly fall short of expectations. [The G-20 expands the G-8 countries of Canada -- France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United S...

Znet Article Weisbrot: El Salvador's Left Wins Historic Election

Znet Article, March, 19 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Last Sunday's election in El Salvador, in which the leftist FMLN (Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation) won the presidency, didn't get a lot of attention in the international press. It's a relatively small country (7 million people on la...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Washington's Lost Credibility on Human Rights

Znet Article, March, 12 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The U.S. State Department's annual human rights report got an unusual amount of criticism this year. This time the center-left coalition government of Chile was notable in joining other countries such as Bolivia, Venezuela, and China - who have ha...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever

Znet Article, February, 28 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Obama wants spending that stimulates the economy in the short term, but he also wants to reduce the long-term deficit problem after the economy recovers. This is exactly what health care reform will do.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Can the US and Bolivia Get Along?

Znet Article, February, 27 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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With the Obama administration's policy toward Venezuela pretty much decided, and the embargo on Cuba considered untouchable because no one is willing to risk losing support among Cuban-Americans in the swing state of Florida, that leaves Bolivia a...

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