May 1, 2005
With the failure of its three previous attempts since 2002 to topple the Bolivarian Revolution of President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Washington has recently announced a new “containment” strategy for… READ MORE
May 1, 2005
Marta Harnecker is director of the Centro de Investigaciones Memoria Popular Latinoamericana (MEPLA) in Havana, Cuba, an organization for research on the history of popular movements in Latin America. She… READ MORE
January 1, 2005
Claudia Jardim is a Brazilian journalist living and working in Caracas, Venezuela as correspondent for the Brazilian weekly Brazil de Fato and the Venezuelan online journal www.alia2.net.This article was translated… READ MORE
November 1, 2004
Marta Harnecker is director of the Centro de Investigaciones Memoria Popular Latinoamericana (MEPLA) in Havana, Cuba, an organization for research on the history of popular movements in Latin America. She… READ MORE
November 1, 2004
David Raby is a research fellow at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Latin American Studies.This essay originally appeared as “Shanties into Ploughshares” on the Red Pepper Web site. With… READ MORE
October 1, 2004
For more than a decade now the major corporate media and the U.S. government have been celebrating the growing “democratization” of Latin America. Rather than reflecting a genuine concern with… READ MORE
