Peggy Ortiz is a blonde, 35-year-old self proclaimed Chavista (Chavez supporter) who works as a writer and radio producer in Caracas, Venezuela. On a walk through the city’s Plaza Bolivar she introduced me to her […]
SANTIAGO — Days before the anniversary of the 1973 military coup that overthrew the left-wing government of President Salvador Allende, half of the people on Santiago’s busiest street were shopping. The other half were protesting […]
The sounds of car horns, salsa music, children in playgrounds, barking dogs and occasional gun shots rise out of Catia, one of the largest slums in Latin America. Catia is a sea of multilevel, tin-roof […]
During the third week of November 2004, heads of state from 21 countries met in Santiago, Chile to hammer out the latest details of APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. APEC is currently the largest international […]
Under the leadership of President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan government has redistributed the nation’s oil riches to finance free education, health care, land reform, vocational classes and media projects, all of which have largely benefited […]
Nearly all newspapers, television and radio stations in Venezuela are in the hands of people opposed to President Hugo Chavez’s government, providing an endless stream of articles and programs criticizing the administration. This opposition media […]
“We, the environmentalists, defend this place and all of Olancho I wanted to show you how the lands ended up and how many years they have been exploited, destroyed,” explained Father Andrés Tamayo to an international delegation in 2003, visiting the department in eastern Honduras in the wake of the murder of young environmental and community activist Carlos Reyes.
Filiberto Ojeda-Rios, the 72-year-old Puerto Rican revolutionary nationalist who was killed by U.S. government agents in Puerto Rico a few days ago wrote the following autobiographical notes for the 1988 book Can’t Jail The Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. (which was produced by the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown for the National Campaign for Amnesty and Human Rights for Political Prisoners): […]
Hundreds of U.S. troops recently arrived in Paraguay to begin questionable activities which political analysts say are part of a preventative war to control regional resources such as gas and water reserves and suppress social uprisings in Bolivia.
There is no greater contrast to the way a country reacts to a hurricane than the way the Cuban government and the Bush regime reacted to their respective disasters. A hurricane with 160 mile-an-hour winds […]
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