chavez
-
Libya: Bewitched, bothered and bewildered By William Bowles
So why did Chavez and Castro (as well as Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua) offer public support to Ghadafi? Well, as things have turned out, it is clear that this is not about Ghadafi but all about imperial ambitions and I hazard the guess that they both knew more about the machinations of the Empire than… Continue reading
-
New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-18 February, 2011
19 February, 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Unreal Revolutions 18.02.2011 | 10:58 | LEBEDEVA Irina (US) The practical aspect of the plan was that the US Department of State would be directly involved in providing financial, technical, and organizational support, training, and coordination assistance to oppositional youth movements across the world, with an emphasis on Continue reading
-
Venezuela's Choice By Michael Albert
Venezuelan election commentary is still in flux – reactions are still trickling in. Still, so far available analyses are mostly failing to address the election’s most important implications. Continue reading
-
Colombia and Venezuela Rattle Their Sabres By Jeffery R. Webber
Outgoing Colombian President, Álvaro Uribe, dropped a figurative bomb in the Andes on Thursday, July 22, just weeks before the scheduled inauguration of President-elect Juan Manuel Santos, Uribe’s former Defence Minister. At the behest of Bogotá, an extraordinary session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) was convened to hear Colombia’s… Continue reading
-
Venezuela: Epicenter of Counter-Hegemonic Bloc: Interview with William I. Robinson
The strategy is deft at taking advantage of the revolution’s own mistakes and limitations, such as corruption, clientalism and opportunism, which we must acknowledge are serious problems in Venezuela. It is also deft at aggravating and manipulating material problems, such as shortages, price inflation and so forth. Continue reading
-
Venezuela Cancels Haiti’s Oil Debt
President Hugo Chavez announced Monday that he would write off the undisclosed sum Haiti owes Venezuela for oil as part of the ALBA bloc’s plans to help the impoverished Caribbean nation after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. Continue reading
-
Hugo Chavez Did Not Accuse the U.S. of Causing the Haitian Earthquake by The Anti Press
Within the actual story, ABC noted that the information came from an obscure opinion post on the website of a Venezuelan state television channel, VIVE Television. The post referenced a supposed Russian military report on American seismic weapons. All quotes subsequently attributed to Chavez regarding Haiti and earthquake weapons were in fact direct quotes from… Continue reading
-
Shambles in Copenhagen By Greg Albo
The turn to market environmentalism of so much of the environmental movement in North America has been in equal parts political and ecological disasters. This effort to form alliances with the capitalist classes and the state within the confines of neoliberalism has done nothing to advance solutions to the most crucial ecological issue of the… Continue reading
-
“Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama, is Preparing for War in South America”; Interview with Eva Golinger By Mike Whitney
The US media is very critical of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He’s frequently denounced as “anti-American”, a “leftist strongman”, and a dictator. Can you briefly summarize some of the positive social, economic and judicial changes for which Chavez is mainly responsible? Continue reading
-
Unsettling Revelations Regarding U.S. Lease of Colombian Military Bases By COHA Research Associate Christina Esquivel
On Friday, October 30, U.S. and Colombian officials signed the controversial Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA), granting the U.S. armed forces access to seven Colombian military bases for the next ten years. The deal has been the subject of anxious speculation and heated debate since talks were first confirmed over the summer, as many policymakers throughout… Continue reading
-
Chávez a Fox News: como dijo Penn son unos estupidos
25 September, 2009 — Chávez attacks Fox News http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3500207 more about “Chávez a Fox News: como dijo Penn son…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
-
Will Venezuelans be asking the same thing on August 11, 2049? I trust not! By Roy S. Carson
VHeadline editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: It was undoubtedly with a degree of trepidation that I read El Universal’s interview with former US ambassador to Venezuela, Jeffrey Davidow, puzzled as to how the cunning diplomat that he undoubtedly is could have allowed himself to be lured into such a situation in the sure… Continue reading
-
BREAKING NEWS: Venezuela is beset this weekend by rumors of a possible conspiracy or coup
Venezuela is beset this weekend by rumors of a possible conspiracy or coup which have NOT yet been commented upon by official sources although they have been denied by the pro-government website Aporrea.org and state-owned Venezolana de Television (VTV) commentator Mario Silva. Continue reading
-
Honduras: Anti-Chavez ‘free speech’ warriors linked to coup By Federico Fuentes
18 July, 2009 — Green Left Caracas – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is well-known for its mission to expose the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez as a threat to free speech ‘all over the continent’. These brave free speech warriors made a big deal this year about how they ‘dared’ to hold Continue reading
-
The Counter-Revolution Will Not be Tweeted By George Ciccariello-Maher
Zelaya, a former centrist who has recently made leftward moves, raised the ire of the entrenched Honduran oligarchy by, among other things, joining the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), a radical counterpoint to U.S.-promoted free trade agreements. His overthrow has been followed by a press blackout, military curfew, and repression in the streets, as… Continue reading
-
Fidel Ordered Chavez ‘Rescue’ By Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
Castro states that he phoned Miraflores Palace before Chávez surrendered and told him: “Don’t kill yourself, Hugo. Don’t do like Allende, who was a man alone. You have most of the Army on your side. Don’t quit, don’t resign. Continue reading
-
Nil NIKANDROV Western Hemisphere: American Indians Fight for Their Rights
‘The population of the pre-Columbus America was about 100 million, but during the next 150 years 95% of the indigenous peoples disappeared. I’d like to ask whether this can be called colonization, civilization, culturalization or evangelization? We must dispel the myth! Genocide! That’s what it was!’ President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez told this at the Continue reading
The New Dark Age 