South/Latin America

Articles

• Argentina and Uruguay Shun US Military Academy (the Guardian / UK)
  6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006
  by Duncan Campbell Two Latin American countries are to stop sending troops for training to a controversial military academy in the US.
  The move was welcomed by groups that have been campaigning against the academy since it was accused, in its previous incarnation, of training Latin American soldiers in illegal interrogation techniques.
  The defence ministers of Argentina and Uruguay have decided to stop sending soldiers to train at the Western (…)

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• The Left Needs More Socialism
  6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  by Ronald Aronson
  It’s time to break a taboo and place the word "socialism" across the top of the page in a major American progressive magazine. Time for the left to stop repressing the side of ourselves that the right finds most objectionable. Until we thumb our noses at the Democratic pols who have been calling the shots and reassert the very ideas they say are unthinkable, we will keep stumbling around in the dark corners of American politics, wondering how we lost our souls—and how to (…)

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• Throwing Stones at Venezuela By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet
  5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  Throwing Stones at Venezuela
  By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet Posted on April 1, 2006, Printed on April 5, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/34270/
  It’s certainly no surprise. Even over a year ago, journalists were remarking at the "left turn" that so many Latin American countries were making. Of late, however, we only hear about Hugo Chavez and Venezuela. The South American country has taken the place of Cuba as the new whipping boy of alternative political models. But the targeted (…)

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• VENEZUELA : The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Video
  5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Video
  Sometimes, a good documentary is all about being in the right place at the right time. It does not get much better for Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain, who, in late 2001 began filming a documentary about Hugo Chavez, the controversial President of Venezuela. As they worked on their documentary, events in Venezuela reached a fever pitch and the duo was able to capture on film a coup from the perspective of the Chavez government. The footage is (…)

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• U.S. troops in Dominican Republic By G. Dunkel
  4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  Published Apr 2, 2006 5:51 PM http://www.workers.org/2006/world/dominican-republic-0406/
  The United States hoped sending a heavily armed brigade of several thousand troops to Barahona, a small city on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic 50 miles from the Haitian border, would go unnoticed.
  But the progressive movement in the Dominican Republic held a series of demonstrations in late February exposing this potential threat to Cuba, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, to the elections (…)

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• Greg Palast Speaks With President Chavez
  4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Chavez rules out return to cheap oil
  By Meirion Jones Producer, BBC Newsnight
  04/03/02 "BBC" — — In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Greg Palast, Mr Chavez - who is due to host the Opec meeting on 1 June in Caracas - said he would ask the oil cartel to set $50 a barrel as the long term level.
  During the 1990s the price of oil had hovered around the $20 mark falling as low as $10 a barrel in early 1999.
  "We’re trying to find an equilibrium. The price of oil could remain at the low (…)

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• How the US ’lost’ Latin America By BBC
  4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12622.htm
  It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America.
  While the Bush administration has been fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America have become a festering sore - the worst for years.
  Virtually anyone paying attention (…)

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• Noam Chomsky on Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Haiti, Democracy in Latin America and the Israeli Elections
  4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  From DEMOCRACYNOW !
  AMY GOODMAN: In his first broadcast interview upon the book’s publication, Chomsky spoke to us from our Boston studio on Friday.
  JUAN GONZALEZ: With public opposition to the Bush administration’s policies at record highs, I asked Professor Chomsky to talk about how it is that so much discontent with the government has not translated into larger political mobilization.
  NOAM CHOMSKY: First of all, on the fact that advertising is designed to undermine free markets, (…)

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• Biodiversity: Environmentalists, Indigenous People Disappointed by COP8
  2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Inter Press Service Biodiversity: Environmentalists, Indigenous People Disappointed by COP8 by Mario Osava
  CURITIBA, Brazil - Environmental and indigenous activists are leaving the 8th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP8) with a sense of disappointment, because of the absence both of practical decisions and of their participation in key negotiations.
  COP8 was a "failure," according to Greenpeace (…)

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• In the Spirit of Chavez Recent Rallies Share Tactics, Passion of the 1960s (Los Angeles Daily News)
  2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  Published on Friday, March 31, 2006 by the
  by Rachel Uranga
  Marches, walkouts and calls for a boycott.
  The immigrants-rights protests of the past week have sparked Latinos’ passion like nothing since the farm workers marches and grape boycotts led by Cesar Chavez in the 1960s and ’70s - drawing political parallels and generational ties.
  Considered by many to be the first to attract Latinos to a massive U.S. social-justice movement, the legacy and tactics of Chavez - whose birthday is (…)

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