Third Latin America news roundup - December 24, 2009

TOP STORY - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on How to Tackle Climate Change: “We Must Go from Capitalism to Socialism” (Democracy Now!)

Brazil - Fordlandia (Against the Grain)

Colombia - The social history of chicha (IPS)

Colombia - Is Colombia's anti-FARC strategy unraveling after 7 years of success? (Miami Herald)

Latin America - The Caribbean and Latin America at the Rendezvous of History (Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3907)

Latin America - Social Inequalities and Dengue Transmission in Latin America (University of Florida Global Health)

Mexico - "A joke," the legal outcome of the Acteal case (La Jornada)

United States - Stiglitz warns US economy may contract next year (Associated Press)

World - Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex: Impacts on Movements for Peace and Social Justice (Global Research)

World - The failure of a paradigm but... has anything really changed? (ifis.choike.org)