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Grandin: Brazil Stares Down The US On Libya
Znet Article, April, 02 2011
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Tensions over Middle East policy are increasing, despite Barack Obama's recent visit to Latin America.
Grandin: Aristide on the Way Home
Znet Article, March, 19 2011
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Rejecting a direct personal appeal from Barack Obama, South Africa has allowed exiled Haitian president Jean- Bertrand Aristide's plane to take off.
Grandin: Building a Perfect Machine of Perpetual War
Znet Article, February, 13 2011
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As the rest of South America pulls out of the US orbit (which I would argue ranks as a world historical event as consequential as the fall of the Berlin Wall, though less noticed since it has taken place over a decade rather than all on one night)...
Grandin: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff: From Imprisoned Guerrilla Fighter to "The Most Powerful Woman in the World"
Znet Article, January, 04 2011
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Brazil has made history with the swearing-in of its first female president. On Saturday, Dilma Rousseff received the presidential sash from outgoing President Lula da Silva at a ceremony in the capital Brasília. In the 1960s, Rousseff was a guerri...
Grandin: Glenn Beck, America's Historian Laureate
Znet Article, May, 15 2010
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The Tea Party's Guide to American Exceptionalism (It Is All About Race)
Grandin: Honduras: Solution or Stall?
Znet Article, November, 01 2009
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The Honduran crisis may soon be over. Maybe. The leader of the coup government, Roberto Micheletti, agreed to a nine-point plan to end the country's political impasse, brokered by Thomas Shannon, the former US Assistant Secretary of State for West...
Grandin: Honduran Coup Regime in Crisis
Znet Article, October, 11 2009
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How long can the Honduran crisis drag on, with President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a military coup more than three months ago, trapped in Tegucigalpa's Brazilian Embassy? Well, in early 1949 in Peru, VÃctor Haya de la Torre--one of last century's ...
Grandin: Battle for Honduras--and the Region
Znet Article, August, 18 2009
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Roberto Micheletti, who took power in Honduras following the June 28 coup, has come under intense criticism from the international community for rejecting a compromise, negotiated by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, that would allow Manuel Zelay...
Grandin: Zelaya Vows to Return to Honduras Despite Threats of Arrest by Coup Leaders
Znet Article, July, 02 2009
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The ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has vowed to return to Honduras within the next few days in an attempt to reclaim power. Zelaya’s statement came after the Organization of American States approved a resolution on Wednesday that gave H...
Grandin: Coup in Honduras: Military Ousts President Manuel Zelaya, Supporters Defy Curfew and Take to the Streets
Znet Article, June, 29 2009
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In the first military coup in Central America in a quarter of a century, the Honduran military has ousted the democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. Former Parliamentary speaker Roberto Micheletti, who was sworn in as Zelaya’s replaceme...
Grandin: Touring Empire's Ruins
Znet Article, June, 26 2009
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From Detroit to the Amazon
Grandin: How The Nation Magazine Saved the American Empire
Znet Article, April, 18 2009
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75 years ago President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did something just like that, tapping a former Nation editor and fierce critic of U.S. militarism to advise his administration on Latin American policy.
Grandin: Losing Latin America
Znet Article, June, 09 2008
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Latin America has been indispensable in the evolution of U.S. diplomacy. The region is often referred to as America's "backyard," but a better metaphor might be Washington's "strategic reserve," the place where ascendant foreign-policy coalitions ...
Grandin: Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate
Znet Article, March, 07 2008
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Fidel Castro has been a factor in US presidential elections ever since 1960.
Grandin: The Unholy Trinity
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
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The world is made up, as Captain Segura in Graham Greene's 1958 novel Our Man in Havana put it, of two classes: the torturable and the untorturable. "There are people," Segura explained, "who expect to be tortured and others who would be outraged ...
Grandin: Free Speech in Venezuela
Znet Article, June, 24 2007
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The government of Venezuela decided not to renew a broadcast license for RCTV, one of the oldest and largest opposition-controlled TV stations in the country, when its 20-year term expired on May 27. The US media, in keeping with its reporting on ...
Grandin: Still Dancing to Ollie's Tune
Znet Article, October, 18 2006
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Still Dancing to Ollie's Tune
Grandin: The Rebel and Mr. Danger
Znet Article, June, 12 2006
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There is something quaint—flattering, even—about the way Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez insists on calling George W. Bush “Mr. Danger.†The taunt, which Chávez delivers in English with rolled-out vowels and pinc...
Grandin: The Swift Boating of America
Znet Article, June, 03 2006
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An illegal war, torture rooms, warrantless wiretapping, manipulated intelligence, secret prisons, disinformation planted in the press, graft, and billions of reconstruction dollars gone missing: just when it seemed that the Bush administration had...
Grandin: The Wide War
Znet Article, May, 08 2006
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How fast has Latin America fallen from favor? Just a decade ago the Clinton administration was holding up the region as the crown jewel of globalization's promise: All is quiet on "our southern flank," reported the head of the US Southern Command,...
