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The steady stream of lies about Venezuela
October 20, 2009 As Eva Golinger points out in her books, the constant stream of lies about Venezuela and its popular President Hugo Chavez are best seen as the leading edge of an integrated strategy of destabilisation and ‘regime change’ for the socialist-oriented, oil-rich nation. -
Elections in Honduras: Whitewashing a Path to a Past of Horrors
December 2, 2009 ... only have the formula to whiten and brighten this military dictatorship if our government chooses to accept the results, ... -
Latin America: Social Movements in Times of Economic Crises
August 17, 2009 The most striking aspect of the prolonged and deepening world recession/depression is the relative and absolute passivity of the working and middle class in the face of massive job losses, big cuts in wages, health care and pension payments and mounting housing foreclosures. The Venezuelan social movements retain their vigor in part because of the encouragement of Chavez' leadership, but the movements are also held back by powerful reformist currents in the regime. -
Hugo Chávez and Venezuela: Tides of Victory
February 24, 2009 ... to violate all norms of election observation by condemning dictatorship in Venezuela as soon as he landed in the ... -
An Old Honduran Coup on a Different Stage
June 29, 2009 No, this is not Venezuela in 2002. Nor is it Haiti, 2004. It's Honduras, 2009, but roughly the same story is once again being told, on a different stage with different actors. But that difference could mean everything. -
Reclaiming a Continent: Latin American Experiments in Democracy
August 27, 2009 ... widespread repression, torture and disappearances during a dictatorship which began in 1973, it re-emerged as a ... -
Why Obama Should Meet With Hugo Chavez
January 21, 2009 Regardless of what one thinks of Chávez's politics-love him or hate him---it should be obvious that Obama could score an easy political victory by initiating a détente. -
Bashing Venezuelan Democracy
January 28, 2009 ... targeted Chávez again in her January 12 op-ed headlined: "Dictatorship for Dummies." She's deeply disappointed that low ... about that?" For Toro, it's not about democracy or dictatorship but rather an "old fashioned cult of ... -
Violence and Transformation in Venezuela’s Public Universities
July 8, 2009 ... socialist indoctrination as part of its march toward dictatorship. A closer look at the numbers, however, reveals ... indeed fell just three years later to a military dictatorship in 1948. [11] "Professores rechazan violencia en ... -
Playing the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Card Against Venezuela
September 4, 2009 ... of the Sandinista revolution, most had ties to the toppled dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza and left the country of ... issue, Israel provided military assistance to the Somoza dictatorship from the 1950s right up to the Sandinistas' ... -
Down But Not Out: Latin American Right and Its Chávez Fear-Mongering
March 13, 2009 ... was leading El Salvador on the march towards Stalinist dictatorship. While campaigning near the Honduran border ... -
After the Handshake
June 2, 2009 Latin America has welcomed the election of Barack Obama. But how far do the US president’s policies point to a real change in US/Latin American relations? And even if Obama personally wants such a change, does he have the power to deliver? -
Opposition Media Dogs Salivate Over Venezuela's New Cable TV Law
June 15, 2009 ... of the closet to try and make out that we are living in a dictatorship in Venezuela. But similar laws already exist ... -
Crime in Venezuela: Opposition Weapon or Serious Problem?
March 30, 2009 The opposition uses crime to discredit the Chavez government, yet despite being one of the only countries with decreasing unemployment, despite its social missions and increased grassroots political participation, crime seems to be increasing in Venezuela- why? -
Venezuela: Socialism, Democracy and the Re-Election of President Chavez
January 12, 2009 ... systems, many emerging from the crisis of military dictatorship of the 1970-80's. They resulted from a ...