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Mondragon: Uribe's Pyramids
Commentary, February, 15 2008
Hector Mondragon
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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: From Apartheidland to AUC-Land
Commentary, September, 17 2006
Hector Mondragon
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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: 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
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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: 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
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**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: Law and Disorder
Commentary, January, 20 2004
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
Two months have passed since the referendum in Colombia. It is safe to say the government lost that referendum, even though the official results are still not in: the recount has been deferred to 2004. The President insists in all the media that h...
Mondragon: UribeÕs Naked Aggression
Commentary, November, 07 2003
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
The failed referendum of Uribe VelezÕs government has had the same effect as the child who declares: Òthe emperor has no clothesÓ. The mainstream media all over the world had proclaimed just days before that Ò70% of Colombians support UribeÓ, but ...
Mondragon: Uribe’s Naked Aggression
Commentary, November, 07 2003
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
The failed referendum of Uribe Velez’s government has had the same effect as the child who declares: “the emperor has no clothesâ€. The mainstream media all over the world had proclaimed just days before that “70% of...
Mondragon: Colombia at Cancun: How the Trojan Horse Failed
Commentary, October, 15 2003
Hector Mondragon
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When, one after another, the delegates of the WTO ministerial in Cancun were confessing that the meeting had failed and that there was no agreement, they were also confessing the failure of Colombia's Minister of External Commerce, Jorge Humberto ...
Mondragon: Keeping Order in the Neighborhood
Commentary, August, 21 2003
Hector Mondragon
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Protests swirled around the Peruvian president in Cuzco when on May 23 he declared his support for the president of Colombia at the meeting of leaders of Andean and Amazonian countries. Support for Uribe staggered over the next few days, shaken b...
Mondragon: Of Agro Industrialists, Godfathers, And Hangmen
Commentary, June, 08 2003
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
In less than a month, a law and a pair of presidential decrees from Uribe have institutionalized what many years of violence and forced displacement had brought to Colombian campesinos.
Mondragon: The South American Israel
Commentary, April, 24 2003
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
Here is a state used by an imperial power to impose its order in a region. In every sphere, with every dollar of military aid it receives from the US, the Colombian state is heading down this route. And it's in this sense that researchers from Ven...
Mondragon: The Bubble and the Fleet
Commentary, March, 11 2003
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
The economics team of Colombia's Uribe government proposed, and won, an increase of $16 billion USD in the state's external debt. That is an increase of 80% for the state, and an increase of 42% of the external debt of the country as a whole.
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
Mondragon: The Disastrous Economics Of Counterterrorism In Colombia
Commentary, September, 14 2002
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
Sorry about the commentary that went out earlier -- it was an old piece. MAde amistake in the shuffle of new servers today, etc.
Mondragon: What Are These 'other Threats To Colombia's Security'?
Commentary, April, 29 2002
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
On April 18, 2002, the US Congress announced a new bill intended to raise the
Mondragon: The Colombian Elections: Some old, some new, and some uncertainties
Commentary, March, 18 2002
Hector Mondragon
Mondragon's ZSpace page
The abstention of more than half the citizenry; the vote for traditional parties of the extreme right; the continuing proportion in the legislature of 70% traditional bipartisan electoral barons, and the surprising growth of an alternative vote fo...
