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At the end of July, Tortilla con Sal interviewed Lic. Jorge Martinez Gonzalez and Lic. Armando Chible Sandoval, President and Assistant Manager respectively of the savings cooperative Caja Rural...

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The arrest of Remedios Garca Albert reminds me of the film "To Kill a Mockingbird". She is the black man in a society corrupt to the point of nausea - quit the reference to colour and in its place...

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You can't build socialism in one country, chanted revolutionaries throughout much of Europe as the Bolsheviks took power in 1917. In four years, under Lenin's leadership, the audacious insurrection...
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The United States has consistently refused to meet its international obligations by refusing Venezuela's request to extradite mass murderer Luis Posada Carriles for the bombing of a civilian...

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On July 23 — one day after the right-wing opposition to Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, demanded a referendum on the controversial issue of the nation's capital — the sole...

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The election of Fernando Lugo as Paraguayan president seems to confirm the idea of a new fashion for presidents. The former priest joins the ranks of current Latin American presidents that includes...

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In 1977, James Abourezk (D-SD) had just returned from Cuba. He and his fellow South Dakota Solon, George McGovern, had sought to use basketball diplomacy. The University of South Dakota's team...
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has made public a 60-page denunciation of the political persecution that Yvon Neptune, a former Prime Minister of Haiti, has endured at the hands of...

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In 2006, Daniel Ortega, now President Ortega, sent a delegation to explore the possibilities of oil supply. Contact was made with President Chavez and various ideas came up within the ALBA treaty...

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In early July in Sicaya, Cochabamba, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that if he wins the August 10 recall vote on his presidency, "I'll have two and half years left." But if he loses the...

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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed. Misrepresentations abound. Data is limited and people interpret it in...

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Our region is the kingdom of paradoxes. Take the case of Brazil: paradoxically, Aleijadinho, the ugliest man in Brazil, created the highest art of the colonial epoch; paradoxically Garrincha,...

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First I must say that if it were so, all 153 member countries and in particular, the wide majority of developing countries should be the main actors in the WTO negotiations. But what we are seeing...

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In the first quarter of 2008, a strong political shift has emerged, which allows the local and global rightwing and multinational corporations to regain their positions and boost their offensives....

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With the victory of an unlikely opposition candidate in the June 29 election for prefect (governor) of Chuquisaca, the number of opposition-controlled prefectures increased to seven out of nine.

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In 2006, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez was at the height of his political powers. Traveling to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, he delivered his by now infamous broadside...

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The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas or ALBA, the Spanish acronym meaning “dawn,” began as a trade agreement between countries of Latin America that was proposed as an alternative to the...

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In October, Erik Prince, the 39-year-old CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, a leading private security company operating in Iraq, went into damage-control mode. Blackwater employees in Baghdad's Nisour...

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The first thing a visitor to Curitiba, Brazil sees upon arriving at the city’s bus terminal is a line of aged boxcars just across the street. Left out in front of the old train depot, the broken...

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While briefly sidelined in the media by the celebrated release of 15 hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on July 2, the Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe Vélez,...

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It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free. She was the Green Party candidate running for president of Colombia against Alvaro Uribe in 2002 when she was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed...

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The imprisoned Chilean documentary maker, Elena Varela, has moved the Organization of American States after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal against her detention. The lower court, which...

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Fiddling with the files?

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Supported by 95% of Bolivia's citizens, the hydrocarbons nationalisation decree of May 1st 2006 was the zenith of the Evo Morales government. Now it has just lost, legitimately, by a very narrow...

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Media attention following Ingrid Betancourt's dramatic release from captivity should not obscure a surprising revelation: laptop computers implausibly retrieved from an obliterating air raid on a...

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On June 7th , 2008, on the official webpage of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, a press release with the following title appeared: "Canada Concludes Negotiations of...

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President Uribe’s address on the evening of June 26th disguises an extremely serious situation...

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Colombia's most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed (July 2/08) in a military operation by the...
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As what had been prepared for days before, President Álvaro Uribe responded with the usual smokescreen to the carefully substantiated decision of the Penal Court of the Supreme Court of Justice,...

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Colombia's most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed in a military operation by the Colombian armed...

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This January, after little more than 6 months of negotiations, the Canadian Government announced the completion of negotiations of the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement at the World Economic Forum...

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On the evening of Thursday, June 26, Uribe called a rushed press conference in reaction to the decision by Colombia's Supreme Court on the case of Yidis Medina: a guilty verdict. The court found...

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When Evo Morales was elected the first indigenous president of Bolivia in 2005, he swept to power with a huge and unprecedented popular mandate, crushing his nearest opponent by a 25-point margin....

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The US State Department's little known but widely read propaganda sheet, the Foggy Bottom Cuckoo, has editions in the liberal press of most Western Bloc countries. In the US, it usually pokes its...

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