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Znet Article Burbach: Chilean Student Movement Leads Uprising For Transformation of the Country

Znet Article, August, 14 2011 Roger Burbach
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Chile is becoming a part of the global movement of youth that is transforming the world

Znet Article Burbach: Ecuador's Neo-Liberal Model

Znet Article, February, 08 2010 Roger Burbach
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Beginning his fourth year as president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa confronts a major challenge from some of the very social actors that propelled him into office, primarily over the control of the country's extractive resources.

Znet Article Burbach: Obama and Hillary Nix Change in Honduras

Znet Article, July, 27 2009 Roger Burbach
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The situation in Honduras and Central America is growing increasingly tumultuous with each passing day as deposed President Manuel Zelaya confronts the de facto regime of Roberto Micheletti with thousands of partisans mobilizing in the border area...

Znet Article Burbach: Honduran Coup Tries to Halt Advance of Latin American Left

Znet Article, July, 03 2009 Roger Burbach
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The coup against Manuel Zelaya of Honduras represents a last ditch effort by Honduras’ entrenched economic and political interests to stave off the advance of the new left governments that have taken hold in Latin America over the past decade. A...

Znet Article Burbach: Et Tu, Daniel? The Sandinista Revolution Betrayed

Znet Article, March, 06 2009 Roger Burbach
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Upon his inauguration as Nicaraguan president in January 2007, Daniel Ortega asserted that his government would represent “the second stage of the Sandinista Revolution.” His election was full of symbolic resonance, coming after 16 years of el...

Znet Article Burbach: The United States: Orchestrating a Civic Coup in Bolivia

Znet Article, November, 19 2008 Roger Burbach
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livian President Evo Morales is visiting the United Nations and the Organization of American States this week to report on the recent US coup attempt against his government. He will also meet with members of Congress to deal with “the worst diplom...

Znet Article Burbach: Bolivia and the Echoes of Allende Morales Confronts the Insurrection

Znet Article, September, 17 2008 Roger Burbach
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As Bolivia teeters on the brink of civil war, President Evo Morales staunchly maintains his commitment to constructing a popular democracy by working within the state institutions that brought him to power. The show down with the right wing is tak...

Znet Article Burbach: United States maneuvers to carve up Bolivia with autonomy vote

Znet Article, May, 06 2008 Roger Burbach
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The illegal referendum held on Sunday to declare autonomy in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s richest province, is backed by the Bush administration in an attempt to halt the leftward drift of South America. While the US embassy in La Paz blandly declares it...

Znet Article Burbach: The Final Battle in Bolivia

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Roger Burbach
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Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linares states, “Either we now consolidate the new state…with the new dominant forces behind us, or we will move backwards and the old forces will again predominate.” A leading trade union leader, Edgar Patana, put it ...

Znet Article Burbach: Ecuador's Nascent Leftist Government Victorious in Confrontation with Right

Znet Article, March, 25 2007 Roger Burbach
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The two month old government of leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and the popular movements that back him have emerged triumphant in their first battle with the oligarchy and the traditional political parties that have historically domina...

Znet Article Burbach: Bush Trip to Counter Chavez is Destined to Fail

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Roger Burbach
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Bush's trip to Latin America is a calculated effort to counter Hugo Chavez's growing influence in the region and to separate the "bad left" from the "good left", namely Uruguay and to some extent Brazil. He hopes to add them to the dwindling bloc ...

Znet Article Burbach: The Atrocities of Augusto Pinochet and the United States

Znet Article, December, 12 2006 Roger Burbach
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In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist pre...

Znet Article Burbach: Confrontation in Bolivia over Agrarian Reform

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Roger Burbach
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The government of Evo Morales and the indigenous social movements of Bolivia have won an historic victory with the passage of an agrarian reform law that calls for the "expropriation of lands" that "do not serve a just social-economic function." A...

Znet Article Burbach: Lula's Presidential Victory in Brazil Opens up Challenge From Below

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Roger Burbach
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Luis Inácio "Lula" da Silva's resounding electoral victory with over 60 percent of the vote places Brazilian politics on a new footing. While many on the left remain critical of Lula for the limited reforms of his first term, his very victory has...

Znet Article Burbach: A New Revolution (Mexico)

Znet Article, September, 07 2006 Roger Burbach
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Mexico moved one step closer to a social explosion with the Federal Election Tribunal's decision to crown conservative Felipe Calderon as the victor in the hotly contested presidential elections of July 2. The tribunal acknowledged Calderon's camp...

Znet Article Burbach: Bush Squares Off with Bolivia and Venezuela over Hemispheric Model

Znet Article, May, 26 2006 Roger Burbach
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  George W. Bush has come out with harsh words for the governments of Bolivia and Venzeuela.``Let me just put it bluntly - I'm concerned about the erosion of democracy in the countries you mentioned,' Bush said in response to a question put to hi...

Znet Article Burbach: Bolivia's Realignment

Znet Article, May, 08 2006 Roger Burbach
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With the nationalization of Bolivia's natural gas and petroleum resources President Evo Morales, the country's first Indian president, is dramatically reshaping his country's destiny. On May 1st he proclaimed "an historic day has arrived. Now the ...

Znet Article Burbach: Bolivia's Morales deftly keeps enemies at bay while pushing reforms

Znet Article, February, 20 2006 Roger Burbach
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Evo Morales is just an inspirational symbol for his people? Think again. Bolivia's first Indian president has shown political acuity in his early days in office, skillfully maneuvering and sticking to his radical program for transforming the count...

Znet Article Burbach: Bachelet Victory in Chile

Znet Article, January, 16 2006 Roger Burbach
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  Santiago. The resounding victory of Michelle Bachelet as Chile’s first woman president represents an important social advance in a country where women are often treated as second class citizens. But few observers see the Chilean elect...

Znet Article Burbach: Bush vs. Chavez

Znet Article, November, 11 2005 Roger Burbach
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Bush’s woes just keep piling up on him. The summit of hemispheric leaders he attended in Argentina was a total embarrassment, revealing the emperor has no clothes. Bush did manage to avoid shaking hands with his main adversary at the summi...

Znet Article Burbach: Hugo Chavez: A Bolivarian Socialist at the United Nations

Znet Article, September, 22 2005 Roger Burbach
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Caracas, Venezuela.  Hugo Chavez has moved onto the world stage as an advocate of profound change within his own country and abroad. At the gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this week he proclaimed: "The United Nations has exhausted...

Znet Article Burbach: Murder in the Amazon:

Znet Article, February, 25 2005 Roger Burbach
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Rio de Janeiro. The murder of Dorothy Stan...

Znet Article Burbach: Tale Of Two Presidents

Znet Article, February, 04 2005 Roger Burbach
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Porto Alegre, Brazil. Criticized by some for being little more than a debating society and a “one stop shopping center for the left,” this year’s fifth annual World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil marked a major break ...

Znet Article Burbach: Argentina Squares Off With International Financiers

Znet Article, December, 22 2004 Roger Burbach
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President Nestor Kirchner of Argentina is locked in a standoff with the International Monetary Fund on the third anniversary of a po...

Znet Article Burbach: Pinochet's Arrest

Znet Article, December, 14 2004 Roger Burbach
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The Chilean government has arrested Augusto Pinochet who led a brutal military coup in 1973 and ruled the country with an iron hand until 1990. The United States should now follow suit by prosecuting Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixonâ...

Znet Article Burbach: Why They Hate Bush in Chile

Znet Article, November, 22 2004 Roger Burbach
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Fifty thousand demonstrators greeted George Bush on his arrival in Santiago Chile for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit meeting of twenty-one Pacific Rim nations. The largest and most militant demonstration since the dictatorship...

Znet Article Burbach: Iraq And The Crisis Of Empire

Znet Article, September, 07 2004 Roger Burbach
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Bush declared in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention that he is fighting terrorism abroad "not for pride, not for power," but to protect American lives. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Bush’s wars in Afghanistan a...

Znet Article Burbach: Brazil Turning Left?

Znet Article, March, 23 2004 Roger Burbach
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The cabinet ministers of Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva’s government who have kept the Brazilian eco...

Znet Article Burbach: Argentine President Faces Off With IMF

Znet Article, February, 20 2004 Roger Burbach
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Buenos Aires. President Nestor Kirchner of Argentina is emerging as the leading nemesis of the International Monetary Fund and the private financial speculators in South America. Assuming office in May 2003 with less than a quarter of the popular ...

Znet Article Burbach: Ideology Trumps Oil in Iraq

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Roger Burbach
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The mounting criticism of Bush's Iraqi policies now extends to key business allies of the administration. "The big oil companies were not enthusiastic about the Iraqi war," says Fareed Mohamedi of PFC Energy, a consultancy firm based in Washington...

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