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The great debate on how much—or how little—Barack Obama would change our disastrous U.S. foreign policy usually focuses on the Middle East. That makes sense. Nowhere has the price of the Bush...

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In the last decade political change has swept across most of Latin America. Much of the region - including the majority of South America - is now run by left governments. These governments have...

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The period between 1946 and 1952 – under the regimes of Enrique Hertzog (1947-1949), Mamerto Urriolagoitia (1949-1951), and Hugo Ballivián (1951-1952) – came to be known as the sexenio. The...

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At the end of July, Alberto Guevara, Nicaragua's Treasury Minister, just back from a successful meeting with the IMF in Washington, remarked, "...now, at a time when we really are beginning to have...

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Latin America, once thought of as America’s “backyard,” has been moving further out of the orbit of the United States in the last ten years or so. As the testing ground for Washington-imposed...

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On July 8, 2008, tension between Russia and the United States rose a notch after the signing of a treaty between Prague and Washington approving the installation of a radar station in the Czech...

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Evo Morales changed the history of Bolivia when he was elected in December 2005 as the country's first indigenous president, and the first to get a majority of 54 percent. On Sunday he expanded his...

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More than 63 percent voted to back Morales' government - nearly ten points more than the 54 percent that elected him in December 2005. The recall pitted Morales against governors who have pushed...

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Cuban leaders have begun a reform process - combining certain ministries, opening up more farming possibilities and decentralizing certain functions. They have not given clear signals as to what...
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Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government’s land reform programs were attacked last Thursday by armed and masked men who, the farmers say, were hired by large estate...

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For the Movimiento a Socialismo and Evo Morales, Sunday was indubitably a good day. After having won the Bolivian presidency in 2005 with approximately 54% of the popular vote, Evo surprised...

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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...

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The Commons Standing Committee on International Trade recognized this in its June report, recommending that Canada “not sign and implement a free trade agreement with the Government of...

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On Sunday, August 10, Bolivians will go to the polls to vote on whether or not to recall the president, vice president and the governors of eight of the nation’s nine departments. Just 2½ years...

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At the end of July, Tortilla con Sal interviewed Lic. Jorge Martinez Gonzalez and Lic. Armando Chible Sandoval, President and Assistant Manager respectively of the savings cooperative Caja Rural...

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The arrest of Remedios Garca Albert reminds me of the film "To Kill a Mockingbird". She is the black man in a society corrupt to the point of nausea - quit the reference to colour and in its place...

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You can't build socialism in one country, chanted revolutionaries throughout much of Europe as the Bolsheviks took power in 1917. In four years, under Lenin's leadership, the audacious insurrection...
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The United States has consistently refused to meet its international obligations by refusing Venezuela's request to extradite mass murderer Luis Posada Carriles for the bombing of a civilian...

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On July 23 — one day after the right-wing opposition to Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, demanded a referendum on the controversial issue of the nation's capital — the sole...

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The election of Fernando Lugo as Paraguayan president seems to confirm the idea of a new fashion for presidents. The former priest joins the ranks of current Latin American presidents that includes...

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In 1977, James Abourezk (D-SD) had just returned from Cuba. He and his fellow South Dakota Solon, George McGovern, had sought to use basketball diplomacy. The University of South Dakota's team...
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has made public a 60-page denunciation of the political persecution that Yvon Neptune, a former Prime Minister of Haiti, has endured at the hands of...

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In 2006, Daniel Ortega, now President Ortega, sent a delegation to explore the possibilities of oil supply. Contact was made with President Chavez and various ideas came up within the ALBA treaty...

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In early July in Sicaya, Cochabamba, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that if he wins the August 10 recall vote on his presidency, "I'll have two and half years left." But if he loses the...

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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed. Misrepresentations abound. Data is limited and people interpret it in...

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Our region is the kingdom of paradoxes. Take the case of Brazil: paradoxically, Aleijadinho, the ugliest man in Brazil, created the highest art of the colonial epoch; paradoxically Garrincha,...

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First I must say that if it were so, all 153 member countries and in particular, the wide majority of developing countries should be the main actors in the WTO negotiations. But what we are seeing...

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In the first quarter of 2008, a strong political shift has emerged, which allows the local and global rightwing and multinational corporations to regain their positions and boost their offensives....

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With the victory of an unlikely opposition candidate in the June 29 election for prefect (governor) of Chuquisaca, the number of opposition-controlled prefectures increased to seven out of nine.

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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...

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The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas or ALBA, the Spanish acronym meaning “dawn,” began as a trade agreement between countries of Latin America that was proposed as an alternative to the...

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In October, Erik Prince, the 39-year-old CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, a leading private security company operating in Iraq, went into damage-control mode. Blackwater employees in Baghdad's Nisour...

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The first thing a visitor to Curitiba, Brazil sees upon arriving at the city’s bus terminal is a line of aged boxcars just across the street. Left out in front of the old train depot, the broken...

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While briefly sidelined in the media by the celebrated release of 15 hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on July 2, the Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe Vélez,...

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