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René Báez: The Ambivalent Andean Chessboard
Monday, 3 July 2006, 4:11 pm | Toni Solo
The ascendant nationalist tendency in Latin America in the Andean region, ever more entrenched in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivia of Evo Morales, has recently faced the impact of important elections.(1) Above all, there were the elections held ... More >>
Toni Solo: Sandino - Empire To The Rescue....
Saturday, 1 July 2006, 1:37 pm | Toni Solo
A meeting in Miami over the weekend of June 10th and 11th may well seal the outcome one way or the other of the Nicaraguan presidential election scheduled for November 5th this year. The meeting, actively coordinated by current President Enrique Bolaños, ... More >>
IV with Venezuelan Army General Raúl Isais Baduel
Friday, 30 June 2006, 10:54 am | Toni Solo
Divisional General Raul Isaias Baduel calls himself a simple parachute infantryman. The Army's commanding General and a key player in the Venezuelan military high command spoke with Panorama on recent purchases of weapons systems and the scenario of possible ... More >>
Toni Solo: Tommy Cooper Journalism
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 4:44 pm | Toni Solo
Tommy Cooper was a much-loved British comedian who died tragically but perhaps fittingly on stage during a performance - people thought he was fooling. Cooper's stock in trade was to pose as an incompetent magician. More >>
Rough Reckoning: Energy In Latin America
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 11:54 am | Toni Solo
Much attention has focused lately on the Bolivian government's nationalization of the country's hydrocarbon resources. Bolivia's policy change follows up the Venezuelan government's systematic renegotiation of contracts with foreign petroleum companies ... More >>
Social Justice & Economic Integration In S.America
Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 1:11 pm | Toni Solo
Of the two basic alternatives for regional integration in South America, one is based on greed and injustice and the other on cooperation and equity. The first is some variety of "free market" economic policies that sustain growth and wealth for ... More >>
Solidarity: Remembering Algeria And Fanon
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:18 am | Toni Solo
The Algerian war of independence probably provides the starkest archetype for the kind of arguments thrown up around acts of solidarity with victims of imperialism. More >>
Solo: Shifting Centres Of Gravity In Latin America
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:52 am | Toni Solo
COPA the Panamanian airline is now flying the Brazilian company Embraer's E-190 commercial airliners on routes previously dominated by Boeing 737s. This detail highlights broader shifts in the economic balance of power in Latin America away from United States ... More >>
Venezeula Renounces Cartagena, Leaves Andean Com.
Monday, 24 April 2006, 1:37 pm | Toni Solo
By means of this communication, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela wishes to express its decision to renounce the Cartagena Accord, in compliance with Article 135 of that instrument. In making this renunciation, (Venezuela) points out: More >>
Nicaragua - Why CAFTA Makes Things Worse
Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 12:06 am | Toni Solo
"...sometimes we buy an egg, but not very often because we are very poor..." he had walked with his two small children for over two hours in order to see the visiting paediatrician. The children wee underweight, their clothes threadbare. More >>
The Anti-Americans - Blame Kirkpatrick First
Friday, 31 March 2006, 5:08 pm | Toni Solo
Jean Kirkpatrick's recent intervention in Nicaragua's internal politics is a helpful reminder that US government foreign policy is marked not just by hypocrisy and sadism but also by delusional stupidity. Take this quote from an interview Kirkpatrick gave ... More >>
Education, neo-colonialism and self-determination
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 11:29 am | Toni Solo
Aggression by the US and its allies is a deliberate and integral part of their response to steadily less secure access to the world's natural resources. Energy, mineral and water resources are subject to increasing competition. Military action is an ... More >>
Poverty, consumerism and anti-imperialism
Monday, 30 January 2006, 11:41 am | Toni Solo
Several responses are standard to criticism of ideologically bankrupt and morally schizophrenic initiatives like the UK's Make Poverty History campaign. One is to rail at the impudence of calling into question the campaign organizers sincerity ... More >>
Toni Solo: Gordon Brown's Global Goblin Market
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 3:15 pm | Toni Solo
The old-fashioned credit boom airplane erratically dumps bogus cycle-data-fuel before lurching toward whatever landing - crash or bumpy - awaits. Alarmed, the UK government's top war-crimes financier Gordon Brown has reached for that vision thing, most probably ... More >>
Toni Solo: Bolivia - A New Weave For ALBA
Friday, 30 December 2005, 2:57 pm | Toni Solo
The decisive numbers of Evo Morales' election victory in South America's poorest country give him the legitimacy he needs to redistribute Bolivia's wealth in favour of the impoverished and excluded majority. But he faces enormous pressure from foreign ... More >>
Toni Solo: Varieties Of Imperial Decline
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:17 pm | Toni Solo
In the first few days of December the United States marked emphatically another stage in its progressive imperial decline by frenetically and unexpectedly closing a bi-lateral "free trade" deal with Peru. Just a couple of weeks beforehand, Peru had ... More >>
Toni Solo: US v Latin America - No Neutral Corner
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 3:45 pm | Toni Solo
Mediocrity detests talent. On one level, the recent exchange of abuse between lilliputian Vicente Fox and Hugo Chavez reflects no more than that. Chavez looms large over Fox for many reasons, not least because 80 years ago Mexico under President Calles defied ... More >>
Varieties Of Aggression : Andean Trade Treaties
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 2:02 pm | Toni Solo
When the UN received the recent Mehlis report on the murder of former Lebanese President Rafik Hariri, one suggested tribunal for a possible prosecution was the International Criminal Court. Rejecting such a proposal, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rica remarked ... More >>
Toni Solo: Nicaragua - A US Colony Again?
Friday, 14 October 2005, 11:26 am | Toni Solo
Nothing much changes even after nearly a hundred years. Corporate war-criminal Robert Zoellick, on his day-job for the US State Department, breezed into Nicaragua last week. More >>
Toni Solo: Nicaragua - From Sandino To Chavez
Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 10:31 am | Toni Solo
The US government's murder of Augusto Cesar Sandino marked the culmination of US government efforts to destroy Nicaragua's independence. Those efforts first came to a head in 1910 with the use of the battle cruiser "Paducah" to protect pro-US ... More >>
