Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Second Latin America news roundup - January 6, 2010
TOP STORY - The US-Colombia Defence Agreement (Aljazeera)
Brazil - Booming economy, government programs help Brazil expand its middle class (Washington Post)
Honduras - Entrenched Corruption Stymies Hope (IPS)
Honduras - Honduras After the Phony “Election”: More Repression and Resistance (The Internationalist)
United States - A Longer, Deeper Recession Looms (Counterpunch)
United States - Stiglitz calls for second US stimulus (Ramstad)
Uruguay - Low cost, no frills ceremony planned for Mujica’s March inauguration (MercoPress)
Venezuela - U.S.-Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution (The People's Voice)
World - "Bomb Iran!": NYT op-ed helps mainstream insane agenda (Daily Kos)
World - Negotiating a Green Commitment (Americas Quarterly)
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as always when reading an article on latin america from a US or UK paper, i played 'guess how far into the article the H-bomb gets dropped'
Managed to make it to half way through the second page this time, though which aint bad. Go WaPo!
The Venezuelan economy collapses. Chavez devalues currency by 100%. And where is our eternal doctoral candidate? Singing the virtues of Chavez's socialism somewhere else.
When is the uninformed propagandist comment on the devaluation. Whenever his key messages are delivered by the master. Late and wrong.
100% devaluation. WOW
The Venezuelan economy collapses.
Amidst a world economic downturn, Venezuela's economy shrunk 2.9 percent on the year. That's smaller than the downturn that, say, Mexico has undergone, yet you don't complain about the fact that I haven't been belaboring Mexico's downturn. Why the double standard?
Chavez devalues currency by 100%.
Good. Venezuela needed to devalue. Its currency was overvalued. The fact that Chavez did the right thing for Venezuela's long-term economic health shows that he's not such an irresponsible populist after all.
Amazing!!!
Mexico had the H1N1 crisis, genius.
100% devaluation good, because it needed to be done! Wow: like a cancer is good.
100%, genius, when have you seen that in any well managed economy?
Came on, doctoral candidate.
You would defend Chavez against ANYTHING.
Propagandist.
It is really sad that you had to resort to Mexico, and not to your favorite point of comparison: Colombia.
Spinning propagandist.
Oil average price was over US$60!!!!
and yet Chavez managed to collapse the economy.
100% devaluation good, because it needed to be done! Wow: like a cancer is good.
So what exactly is your point? That Venezuela didn't need to devalue?
Show me one economist that doesn't think a devaluation was necessary. I'd like to see if you could point me to one such economist.
You might want to reconsider linking to Rebel News. Seriously, click on the links next to the piece by Petras you link to. The piece is idiotic enough, but c'mon.
You might want to reconsider linking to Rebel News. Seriously, click on the links next to the piece by Petras you link to. The piece is idiotic enough, but c'mon.
Well, to be frank, I haven't even read the entire Petras piece because I don't have time to do that when I'm pulling articles from all over the internet. In any case, the purpose here isn't to insist that all articles I link to are perfectly sound. Some might not be. The purpose here is to present some perspectives to which people aren't often exposed and to let them decide for themselves what they think of them.
This is the first time that I've ever linked to an article at "Rebel News," so I'm not particularly concerned about whether one link in thousands might be a bit questionable.
Yes, now that you mention it, the site looks pretty stupid (especially the ridiculous diatribe against Chomsky and some of the conspiracy theories), but Petras himself is not "idiotic." I would be more inclined to say that Petras is sorta hit-or-miss on these matters, but it would be a mistake to dismiss everything he writes as "idiotic."
BTW, I changed the link to Petras' piece, since it wasn't originally published at "Rebel News" in the first place.
Best,
Justin
I didn't assert that Petras is an idiot or that everything he writes is idiotic. I simply suggested that you reconsider your decision to link to an article of his that was posted on a website dedicated to anti-semitic conspiracy theory.
As I said before, I changed the link to a different site after you notified me of the problems with Rebel News.
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