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Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 5:57am PDT
When the Workers Party (PT) of Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began to win mass support among workers, beginning with the big metalworkers’ strikes of 1978-80, many so-called “Marxist” intellectuals maintained that we would finally see a “legitimate” workers’ party....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 9:55pm PDT
(New York, April 17, 2006) - Instead of attacking the news media for reporting allegations of criminal activity in a Colombian intelligence agency, President Álvaro Uribe should ensure a full investigation of the charges, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 6:35am PDT
Bolivian security forces have freed three ministers who had been taken captive by protesters in a village near the border with Brazil, officials say....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 6:24am PDT
US PLANS NOW UNDERWAY TO OUST VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 4:57am PDT
Anyone looking to keep up to date with the current talking points for the Venezuelan opposition need only follow the writings of Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post. As deputy editorial page editor, Diehl drafts the un-bylined editorials about President Hugo Chavez....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 7:39pm PDT
China, Brazil and Argentina are mulling the creation of a multinational market for soybeans as an alternative to the Chicago Board of Trade....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 7:31pm PDT
Check out the new flash animation about the SOA/WHINSEC!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 2:15pm PDT
Alvaro Uribe's procession to a second term as Colombia's President hit a stumbling block yesterday as he responded wildly to allegations that his government colluded with paramilitaries to kill civilians....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 8:13am PDT
Estimated oil reserves have just overtaken those of Saudi Arabia...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 10:18am PDT
In an interview with BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he would ask the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to set the long-term price of oil at $50 a barrel. Palast reports that analysis by the US Department of Energy shows that Venezuela - not Saudi Arabia - could have the biggest oil reserves in the OPEC....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 7:23am PDT
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is known for his anti-Americanism and public support for regimes that oppose the United States. But there is growing concern that Chavez’s government may have taken serious steps to go beyond mere rhetorical support with a deal that some experts say could allow Iran access to uranium deposits in Venezuela....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 10:55pm PDT
Venezuelans have been commemorating the fourth anniversary of a failed military coup against President Hugo Chavez....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 10:03pm PDT
Last year, when he first entered politics, few took Ollanta Humala’s presidential bid seriously. Now, the retired lieutenant colonel who supports coca legalization and speaks of “the progressive forces in the region that are building a great Latin American family,” and of his wish to join “a new generation of leaders that have in common the search for an alternative to the neoliberal model” has come out on top in the first round of Peru’s presidential elections....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 5:40pm PDT
"Humala has pledged a revolution for Peru's poor majority, worrying business leaders and the European-descended upper classes. If elected, the ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would be the latest in a string of Latin American leftists to come to power challenging U.S. policies."...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:57am PDT
The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, is recruiting and training a people's militia to help lead a "war of resistance" against what he claims is the threat of a US invasion. Housewives, students, construction workers and the unemployed are being recruited for the country's Territorial Guard. The first training sessions with firearms have already taken place....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:43am PDT
Peruvians are heading to the polls to decide a tight three-way race to be the country's next president....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:18am PDT
The US has accused city officials of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, of complicity in an attack on the car of US Ambassador William Brownfied....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 8:49pm PDT
The campaign of Peruvian populist Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso appeared to be poised for victory in the April 9 presidential election as the World went to press....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 6:51am PDT
All Against Lopez Obrador...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:43pm PDT