News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
Posted in UNASUR on Aug 29th, 2009
The will be discussions between Chile and Bolivia about Bolivia’s coastal access at the UNASUR meeting today, although they will be bilateral discussions–without Peru, because president Alan García is presumably eating his second lunch or something. Landlocked Bolivia’s been without access to the Pacific since the disastrous War of the Pacific in the 19th century. [...]
The Real News Network has Narco News‘ Al Giordano–currently in Honduras–explain the ongoing situation in that country. Giordano has a great point regarding the elections that will presumably happen in December, whether Zelaya returns to power before then or not: Nobody believes that a regime that would pull off a coup d’état won’t engage in [...]
Posted in stupid on Aug 27th, 2009
Upside Down World has a rejoinder to Fox News’ breathless fear-mongering about Islamic terror cells in Evolandia, based on dubious CIA reports. Devin Beaulieu, the writer of the report, does what any reporter worth his salt does: Namely, he speaks with the people involved, in this case Mahmud Amer Abusharar, the head of Santa Cruz’s [...]
Posted in UNASUR, venezuela, washington on Aug 26th, 2009
Imperium-fighter Noam Chomsky lent his weight to UNASUR’s meeting this Friday in Argentina to discuss the U.S.-Colombia agreement to allow seven U.S. military bases in Colombia. With the exception of Peru, South American nations are displeased at the prospect of such a strong U.S. military presence on the continent. Chomsky was in Venezuela to denounce [...]
Posted in stupid estadounidenses, war on drugs on Aug 21st, 2009
Somebody get Otto a job at the Journal’s graphics department!
Posted in honduras, medialuna, opposition on Aug 21st, 2009
The ongoing crisis in Honduras has emboldened opposition leaders in other Latin American countries, who, having failed to grasp power through democratic means, now consider extralegal measures. From the AP:
In Bolivia, opposition Gov. Ruben Costas called Zelaya’s ouster a logical reaction to “a process that follows the same book as Chavez, which only seeks constitutional [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2009
Glenn Greenwald takes down the contemptible Lanny Davis.
Posted in honduras on Aug 12th, 2009
Via IKN, Greg Grandin takes apart Lanny Davis, shill for the Honduras elite who support the recent coup.
El Duderino links to a Democracy No! debate between the execrable Lanny Davis, who is whoring himself out to the pro-coup business community in Honduras, and NYU historian Greg Grandin. Davis’s behavior in the debate is shameful; unfortunately, Grandin’s not so effective in countering him. But at one point in the debate Grandin urges viewers [...]
Posted in garcía linera, opposition on Aug 11th, 2009
The Nation has an interview with Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera, in which he suggests that the right wing’s collapse in that country was due, in part, to the massacre in Pando department last year–what he calls the “point of bifurcation.”
How do you explain the current dramatic decline in the influence of the right [...]
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