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Engler: The Return of Daniel Ortega

Znet Article, November, 10 2006 Mark Engler
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If you listen to right-wing pundits and Republican officials, the return to power of former revolutionary Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua is not evidence of democracy in action but rather an invitation to Communist tyranny, terrorism and even nuclear h...

Engler: WTO: Best Left For Dead?

Znet Article, August, 18 2006 Mark Engler
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With the failure of the Doha round of negotiations in late July, some optimistic defenders of corporate globalization will tell you that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is taking a "time out." Most observers, however, are calling the suspension...

Engler: Mexico's Democratic Transition Still Incomplete

Znet Article, July, 09 2006 Mark Engler
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MEXICO CITY - As the results of the July 2 presidential elections in Mexico head to the courts, it could be several days or even weeks before the final winner is determined. The current vote counts have given a razor thin advantage to Felipe Calde...

Engler: Peru's Populist Gamble

Znet Article, April, 28 2006 Mark Engler
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The White House has watched uneasily in recent years as voters in Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia have produced victories for progressives in Latin America. The result is a new generation of leaders critical of the Bush ad...

Engler: Debt Relief

Znet Article, April, 01 2006 Mark Engler
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Last July, debt relief was all the rage. Bono crooned at the Live 8 benefit concert in London--one of almost a dozen taking place worldwide--and the leaders of the G8 nations met in Scotland to negotiate a response to the issue. In the end, the el...

Engler: Latin America Unchained

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 Mark Engler
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For decades the International Monetary Fund (IMF) served as one of the key pillars of the "Washington Consensus." Dominated by the White House, the Fund allowed successive administrations to control the economic policy of poorer countries in th...

Engler: CAFTA Controversies

Znet Article, March, 07 2006 Mark Engler
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A year ago the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was a corpse. The Bush Administration resurrected it with the darkest of political sorcery. And now the lumbering beast is growing ever more monstrous--and arousing new controversy. On ...

Engler: Bolivia and the Progressive Mandate in Latin America

Znet Article, March, 01 2006 Mark Engler
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On January 21, on a hill outside of La Paz, a traditional ceremony marked both a major shift in Bolivian politics and a milestone for the growing New Left in Latin America. At Tiwanaku, a site of pre-Incan ruins significant to the country's indige...

Engler: How Costly Is Too Costly?

Znet Article, February, 24 2006 Mark Engler
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In the center of the CostOfWar.com home page, an upward-racing ticker, presented in a large, red font, keeps a steady tally of the money spent for the U.S. war in Iraq. Every time I visit, ...

Engler: Is Market Access the Answer to Poverty?

Znet Article, December, 16 2005 Mark Engler
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Although much is at stake at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Hong Kong this week, the success of the talks will largely hinge on one issue: the willingness of the U.S., Japan, and the European Union to live up to their own "free trade"...

Engler: b

Znet Article, November, 04 2005 Mark Engler
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The Bush administration has a reputation for creating an unusually business-friendly White House. Put Dick Cheney's secretive Energy Task Force and massive tax cuts together with corporate lobbyists writing regulations for their own industries, an...

Engler: Anti-War Moment

Znet Article, September, 24 2005 Mark Engler
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Growing public dissatisfaction; rumblings in Congress against indefinite occupation; expressions of organized resistance. These three factors represent the pillars of opposition to the war in Iraq. Each can fortify the others, and together they co...

Engler: Responding to the Debt Deal: Where's The Jubilee?

Znet Article, July, 05 2005 Mark Engler
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Seeing President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair touting their good deeds on behalf of the world's poor is enough to make any opponent of empire and corporate globalization cringe. Perhaps because of this objectionable sight, ...

Engler: CAFTA Deserves a Quiet Death

Znet Article, June, 27 2005 Mark Engler
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While the Bush Administration still aspires to ward off defeat, it is becoming increasingly clear that its failure to pass the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) represents the latest in a series of setbacks for its sputtering trade age...

Engler: CAFTA

Znet Article, June, 04 2005 Mark Engler
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The pressure is on for the survival intact of the Bush administration's larcenous "free trade" policies, at least in their most virulent form. Writing on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in the Washington Post last week (1), Rober...

Engler: Triumph Over Debt?

Znet Article, May, 22 2005 Mark Engler
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How 100% debt cancellation for poor countries-now being debated by wealthy nations- was transformed from an implausible demand into a winning issue, and what barriers lie ahead for the debt relief movement. An old maxim in social movements (ada...

Engler: Remembering Romero

Znet Article, March, 26 2005 Mark Engler
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With a White House that uses El Salvador as a model for Iraq, we still have much to learn from the assassination of Archbishop Romero twenty-five years ago. Twenty-five years ago, on March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot down while c...

Engler: The Last Porto Alegre

Znet Article, February, 14 2005 Mark Engler
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It's not Paris or Tokyo, Beijing or New York. Nor is it SÃ£o Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. Enthusiastic residents of Porto Alegre, Brazil will tell you that their modest city of 1.5 million people in the country's deep South is "the last bastion of s...

Engler: Seattle At Five

Znet Article, December, 05 2004 Mark Engler
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Those who recall an era before Bush may remember the images: Five years ago this week, demonstrators flooded the streets of Seattle to protest the third ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Environmentalists dressed like sea ...

Engler: Crimes in Freedom's Name

Znet Article, October, 08 2004 Mark Engler
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Crimes in Freedom's Name

Engler: Republicans Among Us

Znet Article, September, 03 2004 Mark Engler
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It was the largest demonstration in American history ever to greet a national political convention. On Sunday, as the Republicans prepared to launch a week-long media extravaganza in Madison Square Garden, over 400,000 protesters, blanketing two m...

Engler: Has US Foreign Policy Failed?

Znet Article, July, 07 2004 Mark Engler
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Progressives face an important choice when framing their arguments about what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy--a decision about which of two perspectives they will adopt. A first perspective is based on what can be called a "good faith" view of ...

Engler: Bush's Globalization

Znet Article, June, 08 2004 Mark Engler
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Since Attorney General John Ashcroft recently warned of a possible attack on American soil, the protests taking place outside this week's G-8 summit in Sea Island, Georgia have been overshadowed by the specter of terrorism. This is unfortunate, be...

Engler: Oiled Again

Znet Article, March, 30 2004 Mark Engler
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When most people think of Costa Rica, they don't imagine oil rigs stationed off the pristine beaches. Nor do ...

Engler: The Peace Movement One Year Later

Znet Article, March, 17 2004 Mark Engler
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One year after the start of war in Iraq, the peace movement in the United State...

Engler: The Trouble with CAFTA

Znet Article, February, 01 2004 Mark Engler
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On December 17 officials from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua finished negotiations with the United States on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). CAFTA is a bad deal, one that promises to extend the harmful impacts of...

Engler: Bush in Mexico

Znet Article, January, 25 2004 Mark Engler
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Ten years ago this month, masked rebels emerged from the mountains of Chiapas, the poorest region in Mexico, and stepped onto the world stage. They called themselves Zapatistas, taking up the Mexican Revolution's unfinished mission of promoting la...

Engler: Miami's Trade Troubles

Znet Article, November, 24 2003 Mark Engler
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Jeb Bush wanted a win in Miami, and he got one, so the White House says. Any honest observer, however, knows that the negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) failed before they ever began. Almost a week before the summit, trad...

Engler: Victory In Miami?

Znet Article, November, 12 2003 Mark Engler
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Good news has arrived for people concerned with workers' rights and the state of the environment in the hemisphere: When trade ministers meet in Miami this month to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), their talks will probably fa...

Engler: Activism's Autumn Harvest

Znet Article, October, 14 2003 Mark Engler
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Some people believe that social movements are fueled by misery -- that communities only start standing up for themselves when things get really bad. It's an appealing thought in difficult times. However, fear is historically a lousy engine of soli...

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