Latin America
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Venezuela: Luis Bilbao — Reasons to be on alert after the referendum victory
A string of provocations in the days leading up to the constitutional amendment referendum points to the employment of a disturbance plan that could well be followed up with destabilisations attempts after the poll. Continue reading
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COHA: A Decade in Power: An Assessment of Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution
Regardless of what critics may report, most of the population has reaped some of the many rewards that nationalization has provided in the form of governmental surplus. Continue reading
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COHA: “The Rock in the Sun”: Haiti’s Préval Pleads For the U.S. and Rest of the World to End Global Negligence Towards Latin America’s Poorest Country
The question now is will the new Obama administration further assist Haiti, or will it proceed with a 200-year-old pattern of inadequate response to the island’s crushing needs? Continue reading
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COHA: Nicaragua Under the Second Coming of the Sandinistas
Daniel Ortega has been a better president with far greater concern about his country’s living standards and its attitude toward its poor and deprived majority, than any Nicaraguan president since the defeat of the Sandinistas in 1990 Continue reading
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COHA: Mixed Results In Salvadoran Elections
The FMLN for the first time in twenty years of right-wing rule, the former guerrilla party has a good chance to win the upcoming presidential ballot in March. Continue reading
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Bolivia: Evo Morales Moves to Centre Stage for Historic January 25th Referendum
Often delayed constitutional referendum now scheduled for Sunday, January 25th, with government projected to win comfortably. President Evo Morales takes to a last-minute offensive with anti-opposition rhetoric and arrests, and with plans to establish new state-owned newspaper along with another TV network. Despite optimistic government expectations surrounding referendum, 2009 likely to be characterised more by… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Will cheap oil compromise Venezuela
Miguel Tinker Salas explains to The Real News that Venezuela had planned ahead for the price drop, by stocking up on US dollars. Continue reading
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Taking Human Rights Watch to Task on the Question of Venezuela’s Purported Abuse of Human Rights Part 2
December 15, 2008 Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor New York, NY 10118-3299 USA To the Board of Directors, We write to call your attention to a report published by Human Rights Watch that does not meet even the most minimal standards of scholarship, impartiality, accuracy, or credibility. The document, A Decade Under… Continue reading
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Taking Human Rights Watch to Task on the Question of Venezuela’s Purported Abuse of Human Rights Part 1
In his charges, HRW’s lead researcher and writer of the report used intemperate language and patently disingenuous tactics to field a series of anti-Chavez allegations that are excessive and inappropriate. It is not a matter that President Chavez and the Venezuelan government are above reproach—far from it. The problem is the presence of a mean-spirited… Continue reading
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Evo Morales on Climate Change: Save the Planet from Capitalism!
‘Humankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources’ Continue reading
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Nil NIKANDROV Medvedev: The Name Venezuelans Pronounce Correctly
As the time of Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Venezuela is getting closer information attacks aiming to undermine Russian-Venezuelan relations, to smear Hugo Chavez and his Russian partners have become much more intense. Continue reading
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Stephen Lendman: Ongoing attacks on Hugo Chavez
Since taking office in February 1999, America’s dominant media have relentlessly attacked Chavez because of the good example he represents and threat it might spread in spite of scant chance it will in today’s climate. Continue reading
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COHA: A Strange Concept of “Security”
Catholic priest Rafael de Jesus Gallego, after he had been given assurances through the US Embassy’s Human Rights Office that it his visa would be routinely granted to him. Father Rafael was later told that the visa had been denied for ‘security’ reasons. Continue reading
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COHA: Brazil and the United States: Two Regional Superpowers Begin to Re-evaluate their Relations
The financial crisis of 2008 began with the failure of major financial institutions in the United States and then evolved into a global crisis with worldwide consequences. Brazil was no exception to this infectious tide, with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stating that his nation, like other emerging markets, must have a voice in… Continue reading
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COHA: Bolivia’s Military: It’s a Difficult Life, but Certainly There Is No Sign of a Pending Military Coup
Last September, Rear Admiral Landelino Bandeiras was sworn in as interim governor of the Bolivian province of Pando. His election came after its civilian governor was arrested by the military, and charged with orchestrating the murder of more than 18 Bolivian peasant supporters of President Morales, in the town of Porvenir. Continue reading
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Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Colombia’s Political Horizon: The Rise of a New Left
Colombia’s President Uribe: ‘I deplore that Senator Obama’ Current Political Landscape In contemporary discourse regarding Latin America, Colombia is often characterized as a failed state mired by ruinous civil war and reflecting the pervasive influence of powerful drug-running paramilitaries. On the other hand, there are those who see the country as an enviable exemplar of… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 