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- Wednesday, Mar 06, 2013
ZNet Article The participatory democracy that took place in barrios, in workplaces and in the countryside over the last fourteen years was a value in itself -
- Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013
ZNet Article Unable to put in place its post-9/11 counterterrorism framework, the Bush administration attempted to build “perpetual war” from Colombia through Central America to Mexico -
- Saturday, Apr 02, 2011
ZNet Article Tensions over Middle East policy are increasing, despite Barack Obama's recent visit to Latin America. -
- Saturday, Mar 19, 2011
ZNet Article Rejecting a direct personal appeal from Barack Obama, South Africa has allowed exiled Haitian president Jean- Bertrand Aristide's plane to take off. -
- Sunday, Feb 13, 2011
ZNet Article 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)... -
- Tuesday, Jan 04, 2011
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, May 15, 2010
ZNet Article The Tea Party's Guide to American Exceptionalism (It Is All About Race) -
- Sunday, Nov 01, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Sunday, Oct 11, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Jul 02, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Jun 29, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Jun 26, 2009
ZNet Article From Detroit to the Amazon -
- Saturday, Apr 18, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Monday, Jun 09, 2008
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Friday, Mar 07, 2008
ZNet Article Fidel Castro has been a factor in US presidential elections ever since 1960. -
- Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Sunday, Jun 24, 2007
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Wednesday, Oct 18, 2006
ZNet Article Still Dancing to Ollie's Tune -
- Monday, Jun 12, 2006
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Jun 03, 2006
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, May 08, 2006
ZNet Article 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,... - All Most Recent Content
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