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)

Latin America news roundup - January 6, 2010

TOP STORY - The Media as Establishment (GRITtv)

Brazil - Brazil's Lula raps US' weak role in Copenhagen (Xinhua)

El Salvador - School of the Americas Watch Delegation to El Salvador, March 19-26, 2010 (School of the Americas Watch)

Honduras - Killing Organizers in Honduras (Counterpunch)

Honduras - Oops: Footage of Iranian Repression Turns Out To Be Just Another Day in Honduras (BoRev.Net)

United States - Social security as threat to imperial power? (Dollars & Sense)

United States - Public Spending Still Key to Economic Recovery (Truthout)

Venezuela - Task Force on the Americas and School of the Americas Watch Delegation to Venezuela, April 9 to 18 (School of the Americas Watch)

World - More Continuity Than Change in U.S.-Latin America relations (IPS)

World - The Technique of a Coup d’État (voltairenet.org)

Second Latin America news roundup - January 3, 2010

TOP STORY - Year in Review: Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald on the Media’s Wars (GRITtv)

Colombia - Farm Subsidy Scandal Exposes Corrupt Policies (IPS)

Honduras - US Legitimises Coup (Trinicenter.com)

Honduras - Honduras' political crisis worsens its economic downturn (Xinhua)

Latin America - Year in Review: Eduardo Galeano (GRITtv)

Uruguay - ‘Dry Toilets’ Provide Ecological Solution in Slums (IPS)

Venezuela - Hugo Chavez mocks Venezuela coup, Fidel Castro death forecast (Reuters)

World - A giant step back in the fight against world hunger (CBC)

World - Obama, US Continue To Reap Trillions and Condemn Africa To Climate Catastrophe (Voltairenet.org)

World - COP15 = COP out (McGill Daily)

Latin America news roundup - January 3, 2010

TOP STORY - Lula's rule pulls Brazil upwards (Aljazeera)

Brazil - Going Up in the World (IPS)

Colombia - Colombia's outlandish charges that union leader raised money abroad to fund FARC (Toronto Star)

Honduras - Coup in Honduras Not Over (Trinicenter.com)

Latin America - In the next decade, I hope Latin America will continue to fight back (Guardian)

Latin America - Ecuador Will Build UNASUR Headquarters (Poder 360)

Latin America - Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America (American Armageddon Judgement Day)

United States - A hot mess of a decade, a reason for the American Left to be hopeful (Global Comment)

Uruguay - Uruguayans Want Comeback for Vázquez (Angus Reid Global Monitor)

World - Politicization of `anti-Semitism' tragic (Toronto Star)

Interesting Old Panel Discussion: Evaluating Chavez from the Left

Steve Ellner, Historian, Universidad del Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela







Greg Wilpert, Sociologist, Brooklyn College





Fernando Coronil, Anthropologist, City University of New York (CUNY)





Questions and Answers

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)