Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Leaders of Venezuela’s opposition parties announced on Saturday that they were launching a new offensive of protests and actions against the Chavez government, while earlier in the week Wikileaks published emails revealing their […]
Elections are, above all, a barometer of a social conscience. The results indicate the direction that beliefs, expectations, fears, and hopes are taking. The Ecuadorian people spoke on February 17. We, as an organization representative […]
Source: La Linea de Fuego According to preliminary projections, Alberto Acosta, the presidential candidate of the Plurinational Coordinating Body for the Unity of the Left, won about 3.5 percent of the vote in Ecuador’s February […]
Source: Colombia Informa After two weeks of peaceful protesting against oil exploitation in Arauca, on February 12 that department’s social organizations began a strike announced a few days earlier as a response to the repeated […]
Source: Revista Viento SurThe “citizen revolution” in Ecuador is one of the symbols of the South American “post-neo-Liberals” experiences and Rafael Correa’s Government is often considered a reference for many of the European left. The […]
Source: NACLA Until recently, conventional economic wisdom held that sustained economic growth in any society could only be achieved at the expense of income equality. Today, even free market disciples like The Economist recognize that […]
Source: The Americas Blog At the end of January, I blogged about a Congressional letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder asking, among other things, for a U.S. investigation into […]
Source: NACLA Given the current controversy surrounding the extent of the U.S. drone program and targeted killings, it is important to revisit that in the summer of 2012, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency […]
Manifesto: We support Alberto Acosta’s candidacy Source: Rebelión The undersigned writers, artists, academics, workers from society in general, profoundly concerned by the political, socio-economic and cultural dilemma currently affecting our Ecuadorian society; a situation that […]
Source: NACLA After 417 days of wrongful imprisonment, the Zapatista is freed. Thanks to all the people and organizations throughout the world who campaigned for his liberation. Joyful celebrations have taken place all over the […]
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