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Latin America: The Heavy Hand Of The Right Arrives
Monday, 30 October 2006, 11:51 am | Tlaxcala Translation
People disappeared, false dossiers, secret services in action, electoral fraud, the battle in the UN, an imminent coup d'etat in Bolivia, the lives of militants and political leaders threatened. For the Latin American Spring it is time to prove itself ... More >>
The Geopolitics Of Latin American Foreign Debt
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 10:49 am | Tlaxcala Translation
Despite its importance, consideration of foreign debt over the last few years has been diffuse and blurred. Whereas in the 1980s foreign debt was the focus of argument, twenty years later it appears as a marginal issue, as much in discussion of public ... More >>
Belén Gopegui: What's Happening In Cuba
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 11:25 pm | Tlaxcala Translation
A while ago I used to think literature might be useful. I read several texts on its possible usefulness, but they weren't especially clear. I have found a small way of making literature useful as I continue to mull over this question. Now and then, ... More >>
Silvia Ribeiro: The Faithless Gardener
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 11:24 pm | Tlaxcala Translation
Pharmaceutical companies use Third World populations for experiments not permitted in their own countries. Fabrizio and Jordano, two of the 140 Peruvian babies used in an experiment with substances derived from genetically manipulated rice by the ... More >>
AMLO Speech - "We Are Going To Defend Democracy"
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 4:00 pm | Tlaxcala Translation
Mexico: We Are Going To Defend Democracy With Actions Speech by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico City, July 30th 2006 Translation by Tlaxcala More >>
Paraguay : Militarism and Social Movements
Monday, 31 July 2006, 2:54 pm | Tlaxcala Translation
The Pentagon seems to have understood the risks posed to the continuity of United States dominance by social movements in Latin America. The option of militarizing societies serves two aims : it guarantees control of natural resources and protects ... More >>
Colombia's Integration Into Plan Puebla Panama
Monday, 24 July 2006, 11:31 am | Tlaxcala Translation
From July onwards, Colombia will form part of the one-sided geopolitical mega-project that seeks to consolidate the neoliberal model in the western Latin America with the aim of privatizing highway infrastructure, public services and natural resources. More >>
Translation: The World Bank Vs Bio-Security
Monday, 24 July 2006, 11:30 am | Tlaxcala Translation
The fundamental role of the World Bank is not to act as a financial institution but to frame countries' policies so as to prepare the way for private corporations to act later on in those countries with legal guarantees. They do this with a mixture ... More >>
Argentina: Soya-Fication Brings Serious Problems
Friday, 21 July 2006, 4:06 pm | Tlaxcala Translation
Genetically modified soya for animal fodder now accounts for 60% of our production of grains and almost the same percentage of land sown with arable crops. Far from being healthy it presents a real and growing problem for the national economy and ... More >>
ANLO Speech To Millions In Mexico City 16th July
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 11:09 am | Tlaxcala Translation
Friends, My deep thanks to all of you for your presence in this Second Information Assembly. With all my heart, many thanks to those of you who have come from different parts of the country marching, in an organized caravan or on your own account, in ... More >>
Corpses On The Ground, Minds In The Clouds
Saturday, 15 July 2006, 11:16 am | Tlaxcala Translation
A new message just reached me from a reader of Rebelion, one of good will this time, who is not berating me for my articles on Palestine as if insults and prejudices were enough to defeat arguments; nor to defend Israel, as if it needed the help of ... More >>
Israel Lebanon Crisis - The Lesson Of Hizbollah
Saturday, 15 July 2006, 11:16 am | Tlaxcala Translation
Europe is used to being surprised when certain crises blow up that are not within the range of the "politically correct". If Israel repeatedly breaks international law by, among other things, collective punishment of the population of Gaza (we can ... More >>