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Supporters and opponents of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution have come out with differing assessments post the November 23 regional elections, which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had defined as...

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Actor and filmmaker Sean Penn talks with Raul Castro about Obama, Guantanamo and the Pentagon; and with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on human rights in his country and the next US administration.
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Media outlets were predicting a disaster for Venezuela’s Chavistas. Desperate for news that was fit to print, the opposition-controlled Venezuelan press and its foreign counterparts convinced many...

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Regional elections held in Venezuela on November 23rd have been portrayed in the U.S. media as a defeat for to the government of President Hugo Chávez, when in fact the results strongly favor his...

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Havana did not escape the Obama phenomenon and Cubans closely followed the electoral process. There too the democratic candidate was preferred.

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A demonstration in the Peruvian capital by left-wing political movements against U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to the country turned into a protest Friday by hundreds of laid-off workers...

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Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.

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livian President Evo Morales is visiting the United Nations and the Organization of American States this week to report on the recent US coup attempt against his government. He will also meet with...

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In 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a movement named the consejos comunales (communal councils) aimed at creating more responsive local governance by handing local budgetary and...

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In May 2008, Barack Obama gave a speech in Miami where he argued that President Bush’s flawed foreign policy in the Middle East had swerved our eyes off the Latin American prize, rendering the U.S....

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The Free Trade Agreement would exacerbate an already grave humanitarian crisis.

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Can South America escape the wrath of the economic and financial storms that have their epicenter in the United States? Since the financial meltdown began in mid-September, the bond markets of most...

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Like many of my contemporaries, I grew up on comic books. From the mainstream graphic fiction starring Billy Batson and Archie to the alternative realities of the Zap Comix universe and the Freak...
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Appointing Larry Summers our Treasury secretary would be a grave mistake, and a slap in the face to Mexico and those who struggle for economic justice on both sides of the border.

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As economies crumble around the globe, states are becoming increasingly repressive, especially against those who are its political opponents and resisters.

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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...

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Reports of the deaths caused by the collapse of the school on Friday continue to climb, reaching nearly 100 on Sunday. Several hundred other children escaped or were rescued. Many are still missing.

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While on the surface it may appear to be a simple electoral battle, something much different is at stake on November 23.

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A graphic biography of the most iconic revolutionary figure of the twentieth century...

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Pundits have said that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States will not change the nation’s world image overnight. But in Latin America, it already has.

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Elected Haiti's president in 1990. Its first ever democratically chosen one. By a sweeping two-thirds majority. Took office in February 1991. Deposed by an army-led coup in September with all the...

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Rosales explains some of the challenges he and his colleagues face in order to keep prices stable, which is the main remit of the Central Bank in Nicaragua.

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Tensions continue to grow between the US and Bolivia as more evidence comes to light of the former's role in stoking right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales.

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Canadian resource companies are under fire in Peru. On October 21, Cesar Zuniga, the president of the Achuar indigenous group FENAP, told a local radio: "We, as indigenous people, reject the...
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"On November 23, we will not just be voting for this or that governorship, we will be deciding the destiny of this revolutionary process", Stalin Perez Borges, a national coordinator of the...

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On November 19, 2004, masked gunmen took over Noticias' warehouses and printing presses, holding it for several days and murdering a 19 year old...

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When the Mexican dictator Porfiero Diaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so near to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship...

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Sitting in his office, covered with posters of Bolivian President Evo Morales, who also presides over the six federations, Salazar explained "no matter what happens, no matter what they say, no...

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There are lots of places in the world where you need to watch your step. You don't want to be a Sunni in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad (or vice versa). It's probably not smart to speak Tamal in...

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In the view of SEIU and Acevedo Vila, teachers needed a new SEIU-affiliated union because FMPR no longer had legal recognition after its walk-out over wages, classroom size, and the threat of...

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After months of street battles and political meetings, a new draft of the Bolivian constitution was ratified by Congress on October 21. A national referendum on whether or not to make the document...

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International Political Economy Conference, Final Declaration, Caracas, October 11, 2008.

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On October 14th, the Guardian published a fine example of disingenuous slitheriness and downright mendacity with Rory Carroll's disinformation gem in defence of fellow Guardian writer Gioconda...

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On October 27, 2006, Brad Will stood on Juarez Avenue in the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was filming a violent clash between armed, civilian-clad municipal police and...

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Hurricanes Gustavo and Ike, which hit the Caribbean region in August and September 2008, were particularly deadly for certain nations like Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, where several...

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