Steve Ellner, Historian, Universidad del Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
Greg Wilpert, Sociologist, Brooklyn College
Fernando Coronil, Anthropologist, City University of New York (CUNY)
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Saturday, January 02, 2010
Fourth Latin America news roundup - January 2, 2010
TOP STORY - Anti-Mining Activists Killed in El Salvador (Democracy Now!)
Bolivia - Year in Review: Evo Morales (GRITtv)
Brazil - Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions (AFP)
Chile - Chile to open museum dedicated to Pinochet torture victims (Los Angeles Times)
Mexico - Granito de Arena Documentary: Repression of social movements in Oaxaca Mexico (Culture & Dissent)
United States - Obama, an "F" in Political Theory (Tlaxcala)
United States - A Timeline of CIA Atrocities (American Pendulum)
United States - The Clinton Foundation or the Corporate Foundation? (Washington Post)
Venezuela - An interview with Eva Golinger on Venezuela (Counterpunch)
World - Amid dark times, meet the most inspiring people of 2009 (Independent)
Third Latin America news roundup - January 2, 2010
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero gives a press conference at the Moncloa palace in Madrid on December 30. Spain on Friday assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union, the first under a new leadership structure for the bloc which includes its first full-time president and a new foreign policy supremo. (AFP/File/Dominique Faget) TOP STORY - Spain Gives Honduras' Lobo An Ultimatum (Honduras Coup 2009)
Bolivia - Bolivian Government to Back Coca-Based Soft Drink (Latin American Herald Tribune)
Colombia - Mary O’Grady Incites Violence in Colombian Peace Community (Upside Down World)
Ecuador - Ecuador's cocaine problem can be summed up in two words: Its neighbors (Inca Kola News)
Guatemala - NGOs Urge President Colom to release military archives (Washington Office on Latin America)
Honduras - Poet René Novoa attacked by police (Quotha)
Latin America - Classic South American reads: A literary trip (Go With Me)
United States - Distortions in the healthcare debate (Salon)
World - US Press Ignores Egyptian Suppression of Gaza Freedom March (Common Dreams)
World - Going beyond financial instability hypothesis (livemint.com)
Second Latin America news roundup - January 2, 2010
Honduras' de facto President Roberto Micheletti (R) poses with U.S. senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) after a private meeting at the Presidential House in Tegucigalpa October 2, 2009. REUTERS/Henry Romero (HONDURAS POLITICS CONFLICT) TOP STORY - Informal Empire: The Case of Honduras, by Jeff Nygaard (Quotha)
Argentina - Argentina's Anti-IMF Christmas Board Game (BoRev.Net)
Brazil - Fordlandia makes MoJo's list of top books in 2009 (Mother Jones)
Ecuador - Canada-Ecuador: When Stock Exchanges Fuel Human Rights Violations (Upside Down World)
El Salvador - Pregnant Anti-Mining Activist Murdered in El Salvador (Intercontinental Cry)
Honduras - Uncle Sam's Signature (Truthout)
Honduras - What comes next (Quotha)
Peru - Peru's election poll: Humala rises, Fujimori drops, Castañeda stays on top (Living in Peru)
United States - Taking on the Warmongers (Media with Conscience)
World - Pius XII: a saint too far? (Guardian)
Latin America news roundup - January 2, 2010
TOP STORY - Naomi Klein Weighs In on Hillary Clinton's COP15 Address (FORA.tv)
Brazil - Hunger-Free Christmas Still Out of Reach (IPS)
Cuba - Reverse images: The acrimonious debate on race in Cuba (San Francisco Bay View)
United States - Break up the CIA, says fmr. Reagan intel staffer (Raw Story)
United States - Is War the Answer to a Depression? (Real News)
United States - The Hyperrealilty of a Failing Corporate Media System (Kansas Mediocrity)
Venezuela - Chavez calls Newsweek "the empire's magazine" (foxnews.com)
Venezuela - More Bolivar, fewer presents for Christmas: Chavez (AFP)
World - 2009 in Perspective: Glenn Greenwald on the Five Wars US Is Fighting in Muslim Countries (Democracy Now!)
World - Making "Islam" synonymous with "terrorism" (Salon)
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Latin America news roundup - January 1, 2010
El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes, left, serves lunch to people at a Christmas event organized by the Catholic Sant'Edigio community for low income families at a church in San Salvador, Friday, Dec. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Luis Romero) TOP STORY - Salvadorans Keep Praising President Funes (Angus Reid Global Monitor)
Cuba - China, Cuba sign irrigation system contract (Solvision)
Mexico - Life and Death Struggle for Independent Unions in Mexico (The Internationalist)
United States - Time To Tackle America's Widening Inequality (Financial Times)
Venezuela - Venezuela, China Sign Oil Deals (Wall Street Journal)
Venezuela - Airport Security (Two Weeks Notice)
Venezuela - Hugo Chavez says any coup attempt would fail (Associated Press)
World - Have you heard about the 'Gaza Freedom March?' Probably not. (Foreign Policy)
World - Iran protests: covering the other side (The Angry Arab News Service)
World - Making the world safe for (Chinese) investment (Foreign Policy)
Latin America news roundup - December 29, 2009
TOP STORY - Was Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech really "realist?" (Foreign Policy)
Argentina - Argentina puts officials on trial over the abuses of the 'Dirty War' (Washington Post)
Brazil - Birth of Brazil's new middle class helps US carmakers in their fight to survive (Irish Times)
Honduras - Honduran Regime Martyrs LGBT Leader (Gay City News)
United States - Krugman Agrees With Stiglitz: Reasonably High Chance Economy Will Contract in Second Half of 2010 (VideoCafe)
Venezuela - Hugo Chavez claims Colombia, US could simulate attack on fake rebel camp in Venezuela (Canadian Press)
Venezuela - Chávez says US government is 'interventionist,' warns Venezuela (Buenos Aires Herald)
World - Time for wiser voices to pile on: Alan Kuperman's silly essay on Iran (Foreign Policy)
World - Norman Solomon on Afghan escalation, Robert Naiman on Afghan civil war (Counterspin)
World - Egypt Blocks Americans from Gaza March, Stops Aid Convoy (Monthly Review)
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