Latin America
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Morales about the IMF: “the wolf can not keep the flock”
Evo Morales has denounced Friday the injection of more than 1,000 billion dollars through the IMF against the global crisis, saying that countries at the root of the crisis can not solve it, or his words, that ‘the wolf can not keep the flock.’ Continue reading
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"Chávez: The Empire of the Dollar Is Coming to an End"
President Chávez has proposed, at the summit of Arab and South American Countries held in Doha, Qatar, the creation of the ‘Petro’ as new common currency backed by the reserves of oil and gas states to combat the ravages of the global financial crisis. Continue reading
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COHA: The G20 and Latin America: A “Rendezvous With Destiny” or a False Start?
The debilitating ramifications of the crisis are not geographically localized, and therefore, any solution requires a global response that includes not only the most developed nations, but also the emerging market economies of the world. Continue reading
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COHA: Time to Debate a Change in Washington’s Failed Latin American Drug Policies
Despite 37 years of universal cooperation pursuant to the United Nations General Assembly resolution 39/141, which has been the basis of U.S. anti-drug policy ever since; it is a statute which regularly has proven to be ineffective. Continue reading
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COHA: Camilo Torres: Prayer Can’t Solve Poverty Alone
Camilo Torres proposed a political, social and economic paradigm shift, which in 1965 served to inspire the emergence of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a Colombian left-wing guerrilla group. Soon after the ELN was founded, Torres joined it and became its political face. Continue reading
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COHA: Francisco Caamaño Deñó, Presente
In 1963, following years of authoritarian rule under the Trujillo dictatorship, Dr. Juan Bosch was elected in the country’s first free election in nearly 40 years. Unfortunately for Bosch, his left-leaning policies were anathema for Washington, whose Cold War lenses saw even the hint of socialism or anti-U.S. policy, and any other variation of Marxist… Continue reading
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Global Recession: Protectionism and Diversification in the U.S. and South America
As the economic crisis continues to globalize, South American nations are pursuing various trade deals, implementing economic stimulus packages, and imposing new tariffs in response. All of these individual national efforts seek to soften the blow delivered by the downturn, but it is unlikely that they alone will solve the problem. Continue reading
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COHA: A Step Towards Autonomy and Reintegration: The Rio Group and Cuba – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The implications of Cuba’s new relationship with the Rio Group remain to be seen, but it appears that Latin America has begun to slowly and steadily challenge Washington’s leadership role in the hemisphere. Continue reading
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El Salvador: Any real change with a new leader? By Stephen Lendman
For the moment at least, El Salvador’s mood was celebratory after the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced the results with over 90% of votes counted – 51.27% for the FMLN v. 48.73% for ARENA, so for the first time in 20 years, Salvadoran politics shifts left, but hardly enough to matter. Continue reading
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COHA: Bolivia’s Evo Morales’ European Tour 2009: Russia Flies the Flag Over Latin America and Everyone’s A Winner… Mostly
Washington continues to watch its influence drain in what increasingly must be viewed as its former ‘backyard’ Continue reading
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Marc Becker: "El Salvador: Voting in Rebel Territory"
The 2009 elections are the fourth time that the FMLN contested for presidential power through the electoral process. Together with wins in January’s local and legislative elections, the FMLN will be the dominant party when it takes office in June. Continue reading
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Video: Historic power shift in El Salvador
Just over 17 years since the 1992 Peace Accords brought an end to El Salvador’s vicious civil war, the country has seen its first peaceful transfer of power. Continue reading
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COHA: Salvadoran Presidential Election – A Brief Analysis of the Implications of the FMLN’s Big Win
Funes’ victory is illustrative of the significant public dissatisfaction with the policy failures of the incumbent ARENA party, which after 20 years in power has demonstrated an inability to address El Salvador’s fundamental economic and security problems. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Make no mistake about it, there's an all-out war going on out there! Roy S. Carson
While President Hugo Chavez Frias seems fixated on external threats imposed by the United States of America — more specifically from the multi-nationals and delinquent banks that have the Obama presidency in their stranglehold — there’s a festering nether world at work in Venezuela that is probably more insidious than the collective efforts of the… Continue reading
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"Leftists Poised to Win Presidency in El Salvador: New Report Examines Implications"
After 17 years since the end of El Salvador’s civil war, the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) is poised to accomplish what its guerrilla predecessors never did: take over the national government. Continue reading
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Pinochet, the Friedman Boys & Thatcher By Andy Beckett
When General Pinochet came to power in Chile after a military coup in 1973, he unleashed a wave of radical free-market policies that thrilled rightwing observers in Britain. Continue reading
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Venezuela’s Referendum: Media’s Double Standards Steve Rendall & Isabel Macdonald
When Colombian President Álvaro Uribe’s efforts to lift term limits succeeded in 2005, the U.S. media took little notice, and Uribe’s reputation as the U.S.’s favorite ‘democrat’ in the region remained intact. Continue reading
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Venezuela’s Referendum: Media’s Double Standards Steve Rendall & Isabel Macdonald
When Colombian President Álvaro Uribe’s efforts to lift term limits succeeded in 2005, the U.S. media took little notice, and Uribe’s reputation as the U.S.’s favorite ‘democrat’ in the region remained intact. Continue reading
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