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Venezuela: ‘The revolution is profoundly young’
August 16, 2009 ... overthrown in a US-backed coup that established the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, Rangel said, "the ... -
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. -
Cuba, Venezuela, and the Quest for Socialism: One and the Same?
April 14, 2009 ... lead to further political turmoil and eventually another dictatorship."[3] The Cuban government's historic promotion ... -
Grassroots Lessons From Latin America
June 18, 2009 ... repressed and exiled during a more than decade-long dictatorship, was because of its grassroots committees. As ... -
Popular power in Latin America -- Inventing in order to not make errors
July 12, 2009 ... that democratic regimes that emerged after periods of dictatorship in the Southern Cone of America, and which later ... -
US Policy and Democracy in Latin America: The Latinobarómetro Poll
June 3, 2009 Does the US government really craft its policy toward specific regimes based on those regimes' respect for democracy? The general trend is one of US support for the more undemocratic regimes in the region, and US antagonism of varying sorts and degrees toward the more democratic ones.