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Znet Article Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Washington and Brasilia Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean

Znet Article, September, 01 2011 Nikolas Kozloff
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WikiLeaks documents reveal that Brazil may have shared Washington's concern over Chávez's rising geopolitical importance

Znet Article Kozloff: Coca Colla: Its the Real Thing

Znet Article, March, 31 2010 Nikolas Kozloff
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The Andean nations indigenous people have long resented the U.S. beverage company for usurping the name of their sacred coca leaf. Now, they are aiming to take back their heritage. Recently, the government of Evo Morales announced that it would ...

Znet Article Kozloff: Countdown to Copenhagen: Suing the Global North for Glacial Pace on Climate Change

Znet Article, October, 30 2009 Nikolas Kozloff
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Fed up with the glacial pace of climate negotiations and the unwillingness of the Global North to address their concerns, Indians and environmentalists in South America have come up with a shrewd new way of drawing the worlds attention. Meeting r...

Znet Article Kozloff: Zelaya, Negroponte

Znet Article, July, 21 2009 Nikolas Kozloff
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The mainstream media has once again dropped the ball on a key aspect of the ongoing story in Honduras: the U.S. airbase at Soto Cano, also known as Palmerola. Prior to the recent military coup detat President Manuel Zelaya declared that he would ...

Znet Article Kozloff: Obama and Honduras

Znet Article, July, 19 2009 Nikolas Kozloff
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Liberals who have idealized Obama don’t want to believe that their President is capable of bullish behavior towards Latin America. It was Bush, they say, who epitomized arrogant U.S.-style imperialism and not the new resident of 1600 Pennsylvan...

Znet Article Kozloff: Who’s Behind Honduras Destabilization?

Znet Article, July, 15 2009 Nikolas Kozloff
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Behind the recent pressure campaign against the Zelaya regime in Honduras lurks a shadowy world of right wing foundations, lobbying groups and anti-Chávez figures. This tangled web of Washington, D.C. interests includes the Arcadia Foundation, a...

Znet Article Kozloff: Senhor da Silva Comes To Washington: No More Brazilian Wedge Against Venezuela?

Znet Article, March, 15 2009 Nikolas Kozloff
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One year later with a fresh Democratic administration in Washington, what is the U.S. attitude towards different left leaning regimes in South America? That is the question posed by a recent article in Time magazine, provocatively headlined "Brazi...

Znet Article Kozloff: The Stimulus Imbroglio: What Obama Might Have Learned from Chávez and Populist-Style Mobilization

Znet Article, February, 10 2009 Nikolas Kozloff
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When historians look back, they will point to Obama's inauguration as a missed opportunity. At the zenith of his popularity, the new President might have used his bully pulpit to declare the need for a good economic stimulus, one which would have...

Znet Article Kozloff: From Spain to South America: McCain’s Axis of Evil

Znet Article, September, 27 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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Last week, John McCain set off a political firestorm when he suggested that he might not meet with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in the White House. Speaking to a reporter from Spanish-language Union Radio, McCain said “Hone...

Znet Article Kozloff: “Macaca,” Gaffe Rears Ugly Head in Bolivia

Znet Article, September, 16 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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In a careless slip of the tongue in August, 2006 Virginia Senator George Allen shot himself in the foot and ended his political career. During a campaign rally Allen pointed to a man of Indian descent and remarked “This fellow here, over here wit...

Znet Article Kozloff: Obama’s Sobering Choices

Znet Article, September, 13 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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Since the inception of the presidential campaign Barack Obama has promised to transcend America’s petty and divisive politics. During a recent appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, the Illinois Senator remarked that the U.S. was in the mi...

Znet Article Kozloff: The Next Cuban Missile Crisis?

Znet Article, September, 11 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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In a move that undoubtedly set off alarm bells in Washington, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced that Venezuelan and Russian ships could soon hold joint naval exercises in the Caribbean.

Znet Article Kozloff: Showdown at the Oval Office

Znet Article, September, 05 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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In light of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it’s difficult to imagine how any neo-conservative could possibly be dissatisfied with George Bush’s handling of foreign policy. And yet, incredibly some on the far right believe that the President has someh...

Znet Article Kozloff: McCain Roughing Up Sandinista: Smoking Gun in Campaign ’08?

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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Speaking at a news conference during a recent trip to Colombia, Republican presidential candidate John McCain remarked, “I must say, I did not admire the [Nicaraguan] Sandinistas much.” It’s the understatement of the century...

Znet Article Kozloff: Danny Glover, Haiti, and the Politics of Revolutionary Cinema in Venezuela

Znet Article, August, 11 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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Since the inception of the oil industry in the early twentieth century, Venezuela has had strong cultural ties to the United States. President Hugo Chávez however has sought to change this by cultivating a sense of cultural nationalism in his coun...

Znet Article Kozloff: Ten Years On, Bolivarian Revolution at Crossroad

Znet Article, July, 21 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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In 2006, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez was at the height of his political powers. Traveling to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, he delivered his by now infamous broadside attacking George Bush as “the devil.” After delivering his...

Znet Article Kozloff: Planet of the Apes Has Arrived, and It Is Spain

Znet Article, July, 03 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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Visiting Spain’s Barcelona zoo as a child, I was greeted to a memorable sight. In one of the cages sat a gorilla, but not just any primate. I had come face to face with the legendary albino ape “Little Snowflake.” Because of Snowflake’s white c...

Znet Article Kozloff: The Audacity of Vagueness

Znet Article, March, 04 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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As the U.S. presidential campaign heats up, Barack Obama, the likely Democratic nominee, has not been very eager to comprehensively address Latin America as an issue. In recent years, the region has undergone a major tectonic shift towards the lef...

Znet Article Kozloff: Dominica: The Caribbean’s Next “Terror Island”?

Znet Article, February, 27 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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In 1983, while aboard a New York subway, I noticed someone reading that day’s issue of the New York Post. The front page headline screamed, “YANKS INVADE TERROR ISLAND.” It was early on in the Reagan administration and the U.S. had just militarily...

Znet Article Kozloff: Sí, Mi Comandante! Chávez and His Latin American Army

Znet Article, February, 16 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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It is testament to how much Latin America has changed politically over the past several years that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez not only criticizes U.S. military policy in the region but now actively seeks to form a new defense force designed ...

Znet Article Kozloff: Meet John McCain: Mr. Big Stick in Latin America

Znet Article, February, 13 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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Now that John McCain has presumably wrapped up the Republican nomination, it’s natural to wonder what kind of foreign policy he might pursue towards the rest of the world if he were elected President...

Znet Article Kozloff: Hugo Chávez’s Coca Fix

Znet Article, February, 07 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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Chávez’s stimulant of choice is coffee. A year and a half ago, I saw him speak at Cooper Union in New York...

Znet Article Kozloff: Return of the Faux Liberal: Congressman Jerrold Nadler

Znet Article, January, 04 2008 Nikolas Kozloff
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As the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Nadler occupies a key position and could use his influence to press for impeachment hearings. He has co...

Znet Article Kozloff: Chile: A Country Geographically Located in South America "By Accident"

Znet Article, April, 12 2007 Nikolas Kozloff
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Recently, Nikolas Kozloff, author of Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. (Palgrave, 2006), caught up with Manuel Cabieses, the Director of Punto Final, a Chilean bi-monthly newspaper.  Kozloff is currently writing another boo...

Znet Article Wilpert: Hugo Chavez's Future

Znet Article, March, 11 2007 Gregory Wilpert
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Recently, Nikolas Kozloff, who is working on a new book entitled South America´s New Direction, about the political realignment in South America, spoke with Greg Wilpert, editor of venezuelanalysis.com and a freelance journalist. Wilpert is the a...

Znet Article Kozloff: The Rise of Rafael Correa Ecuador and the Contradictions of Chavismo

Znet Article, November, 29 2006 Nikolas Kozloff
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The Rise of Rafael Correa Ecuador and the Contradictions of Chavismo

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