Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Rafael Correa of Ecuador
warned of possible "contagion" in their countries by the autonomy
movement in the eastern Bolivian province of Santa Cruz.
In
an effort to rollback social and political change in Bolivia, the U.S
has funneled millions of dollars to opposition groups through USAID and the NED. What’s more, USAID explicitly
supports demands of the right wing for greater regional autonomy in the
east. It’s
not the first time, however, that the U.S. has sought to encourage
secessionist sentiment within South American regions possessing rich
natural resources. Venezuela came first.
May 5th 2008, by George Cicariello-Maher - CounterPunch
Masquerading under the banner of "nonviolent action,"
the Albert Einstein Institution has come to play a central role in a new generation of
warfare, one which has incorporated the heroic examples of past
nonviolent resistance into a strategy of obfuscation and misdirection
that does the work of empire.
April 30th 2008, by Stalin Perez and Marcos Garcia
As May Day approaches once again, Federico Fuentes from
www.greenleft.org.au interviews Stalin Pérez Borges (SPB), national
coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT) and member of the
editorial board of the newspaper Marea Socialista and Marcos Garcia
(MG), national coordinator of the public sector federation, FENTRASEP
and member also of Marea Socialista.
April 29th 2008, by Kiraz Janicke & Federico Fuentes - Venezuelanalysis.com
The recent replacement of the labor minister and the nationalization of Sidor have once again brought to the fore the question of the role of
workers in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, whose participation as an
organized class has been sporadic at best, in this process aimed at
constructing ‘Socialism of the 21st Century.’
Perhaps one of the more unlikely but compelling stories to come out of
South America has to do with the budding strategic
relationship between Venezuela and Argentina. Together, the two
countries constitute a formidable bloc that could make all the
difference in defining South America’s future geopolitical trajectory.
Even if the laptops are found to have belonged to members of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), there is no evidence
that the publicly available documents support any of the extreme claims
by the Colombian government that Venezuela and Ecuador had any sort of
financial relationship with the rebels.
It is a Friday night in Caracas, Venezuela. We are standing in the back
of a pickup truck surrounded by dozens of motorcycles, tearing through
the streets of Catia, the massive slum area that makes up nearly half
the population of the city.
Sunday’s presidential election in Paraguay, which has brought former
Catholic Bishop Fernando Lugo to power, stands to shake up Paraguay’s
politics and could even exert an impact upon the course of wider
hemispheric integration.