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Mondragon: Nationalist Individualism
Znet Article, August, 02 2011
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
To Latin Americans, the unity of fascism and individualist neoliberalism expressed by Breivik, the Norweigian ultra-right terrorist of Oslo and Utoya, is nothing new.
Mondragon: Roots and branches of the bases
Znet Article, October, 25 2009
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
Senator Paul Coverdell was no mere commentator. Before he died, he designed the new hemispheric strategy founded on satisfying US petroleum needs.
Mondragon: Shielding the Recession
Znet Article, May, 02 2009
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
The rapid fall of industrial production and sales in the first months of 2009 has cracked the media shield behind which the Colombian government attempted to hide the reality of economic recession in Colombia.
Mondragon: Rural Statute found unconstitutional
Znet Article, March, 24 2009
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
The annulment of the Rural Development Statute by the Constitutional Court opens a new chapter in the confrontation between the government of Colombia, presided over by Alvaro Uribe, and the indigenous peoples of this Andean country.
Mondragon: Trade Agreements
Znet Article, October, 04 2008
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
You know that I’ve come to speak about the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United States and Colombia. This is an important theme currently in our countries; it’s a topic of much debate.
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...
Mondragon: ?Por que la guerra, y por que la resistencia no violenta en Colombia?
Znet Article, February, 27 2008
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
El agravamiento de la situación de Colombia tiene como base la conjunción de la actual crisis económica internacional con el sistema histórico de dominación que rige en el país. Generalmente se olvida el factor externo de la violencia, el clima ac...
Mondragon: Uribe's Pyramids
Commentary, February, 15 2008
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
Uribe's government has ridden the global economic tidal wave generated by the war in Iraq that started in 2003. First, the government used as a base public, internal debt by selling bonds (called TES) at high interest rates (like all pyramids) ab...
Mondragon: Armed Gamonales (or Colombian Fascism)
Znet Article, April, 16 2007
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
It is impossible to understand the phenomenon of
Mondragon: Democracy and Plan Colombia
Znet Article, January, 14 2007
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
President George W. Bush has asked the American people to "be patient" so that Iraq can become like Colombia—so that the Iraqis can defeat terrorism and establish a stable democracy like the one Washington has nurtured in Colombia. I would...
Mondragon: From Apartheidland to AUC-Land
Commentary, September, 17 2006
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
One irreversible (for the moment) of the decades of apartheid in South Africa was the enrichment of the large corporations that benefited to the hilt from the super-exploitation of the black working class, an exploitation imposed by absolute racia...
Mondragon: Freedom for Mother Earth!
Znet Article, January, 09 2006
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
If there had been justice and reparation for the victims of hundreds of massacres committed in the last twenty years in the Colombian countryside, as well as those committed between 1946 and 1958 and in previous waves of violence, the principal m...
Mondragon: Records at the Exchange, Records of Impunity
Commentary, July, 27 2005
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
This month the Colombian stock exchange exceeded 5700 points. A historical record, yes, but also an unthinkable statistic representing an 8-fold increase over the past 6 years, a 6-fold increase in 5 years, and a 100% increase in just one year.
Mondragon: Contrasts
Commentary, April, 23 2005
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
The profits of major corporations went up by 20% in 2004 in Colombia. Banks broke profit records. The stock market index doubled. The concentration of lands after years of violence was consolidated.
Mondragon: Toribio Attacked
Znet Article, April, 19 2005
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
The town of Toribio has been cruelly attacked by war since April 14. Yes, this is the same people that promoted and then made a reality the massive Indigenous ‘Minga’ that marched to Cali from September 13-16 of 2004 against the Fr...
Mondragon: A Quick Visit
Commentary, November, 25 2004
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
President Alvaro Uribe badly wanted to show Colombians his only recent success: Bush's re-election. But the US President had only three hours to visit the only supporter of his strategic project in South America.
Mondragon: Colombia Prophesies
Commentary, June, 09 2004
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
On May 13, prices at the Colombian Stock Exchange suffered the largest fall in the exchange's history, of 6.17%. The accumulated loss of the previous two weeks (beginning April 27) in the IGBC (Colombia's version of the Dow Jones Index) was 21.5%....
Mondragon: The March of the Orcs
Commentary, March, 30 2004
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
**In ÔThe Lord of the RingsÕ, the orcs are the foot soldiers of the evil lord Sauron. They are also the cannon fodder, doing the dirty work while their bosses look on.
Mondragon: Colombia Today
Znet Article, March, 05 2004
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
The first thing you need to know about Colombia today is that there is an economic recovery underway. Many, especially on the left, like to believe that whatever crisis is going on now is the final one and that capital is on its way out.&nbs...
Mondragon: An Outbreak of Yellow Fever in Colombia
Znet Article, January, 29 2004
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
Here is another crisis thrown into the daily national disorder. An emergency. The Uribe government has admitted that the 2004 outbreak of yellow fever has already killed 8 people in 25 days. The number who have contracted the ill...
