Thursday, August 6, 2009
LATIN AMERICA THREATENED BY US MILITARY BASES IN COLOMBIA
The announcement of the US occupation of more than 7 military bases in Colombia at a time when a dictatorship – supported, if tacitly by Washington – in Honduras is consolidating after almost a month and a half has passed since the violent coup [...]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009…
Will Obama Change U.S. Policy Toward Latin America?
By Mark Weisbrot
This op-ed was published by The Guardian Unlimited on February 18, 2009. If anyone wants to reprint it, please include a link to the original.
U.S.-Latin American relations fell to record lows during the Bush years, and there have been hopes – both North and South of [...]
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
U.S. hegemony in Latin America has been maintained historically
through military and paramilitary force, economic coercion, and since
the mid-1980s through the additional strategy of manipulating civil
society through a complex of programs implemented under the banner of
“democracy promotion.” Democracy promotion is the topic of William
Robinson’s 1996 book, Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US
Intervention, and Hegemony (Cambridge [...]
“Whether or not he or his brand-new Defense Minister or his wife or his cats
are reelected, Álvaro Uribe is a fascist, and the Colombian government is a murderous government unworthy of being called friendly or brotherly, as my brother Chávez told him (4). Uribe can’t be a contributor or anything like that, and has to [...]
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News and Analysis
Latin American media broadcasts FARC statement
Friday, July 18, 2008
By: Alfonso Cano
‘We will never give up the struggle for justice’
Recent events in Columbia have been widely discussed in the U.S. media, but what has been missing is the voice of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Without that, there [...]
After a solid week of scrutinizing Colombian hostage rescue videos trying to figure out why Ingrid looks so good after 6 years in the jungle, why the FARC soldier, “Cesar,” shown on the rescue video is about a foot taller and fairer skinned than another guy also called “Cesar” that the Colombian military had doing [...]
Can you imagine being a member of the League of United Latin American Citizens and traveling to DC hoping that your government will give you some sign that they give a damn about you and your issues and you end up getting a hard sell from Commerce Secretary Gutierrez on the proposed Colombian Free Trade [...]
All that has happened in Colombia since March 1, 2008, when Colombia bombed a FARC camp in Ecuador that killed several people including FARC Commander, Raul Reyes, amounts to nothing but a prelude for the main event. If the US has its way, Colombia, especially after the “rescue” of the hostages a few days [...]
Recently, INTERPOL examined computers which Colombia claims were seized on March 1 in a FARC camp across the border from Colombia in Ecuador just after Colombia bombed the camp. Colombia immediately spread the allegation that files on the computers showed a link between President Chavez and the FARC. No evidence has been offered [...]
I want to urge readers to check out a terrific new blog, “Machetera.” While it deals with wide-ranging subject matter, the primary emphasis is on Latin America. Machetera provides a wonderful public service through her blog by translating articles from the Spanish-speaking press into English, thereby providing us with access to information that [...]
