News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
Posted in war on drugs on Oct 20th, 2009
Kudos, for now, to the Obama administration for its recent announcement to not interfere in states that have legalized medical marijuana. It’s a small, but important, first step in ending the disastrous War on Drugs. Read Glenn Greenwald for more.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2009
Greg Grandin, NYU historian and foe of Lanny Davis, writes in the latest London Review of Books about the diverse leftist resurgence in Latin America, in response to political scientists–such as former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda–who, through habit or ideology, typically divide it into one of two categories: “social democrats whom Washington can work [...]
Posted in honduras on Oct 15th, 2009
Properly speaking, it wasn’t a coup. The Armed Forces did nothing more than to accept the citizens tacit and/or explicit request that they intervene, take charge.
Honduras 2009? Nope: Argentina, after Isabel Perón was removed by General Videla at the start of the Dirty War…. (Quote from Jorge Daniel Paladino, Juan Perón’s former personal representative; A [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2009
In 1976 a military junta, led by general Jorge Rafael Videla, deposed Argentina president Isabel Perón; thus began the Argentinian “Dirty War,” in which thousands of left-wing sympathizers were rounded up, tortured, and executed by the ruling junta. Other leftists fled the country, including the recently deceased Mercedes Sosa and filmmaker Juan Mandelbaum.
Sosa went to [...]
Posted in history on Oct 10th, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2009
Why? One war escalating in Afghanistan, another in the swirling vortex of death (and, now, gay killings) that is Iraq. My, oh my.
Graphic from Greenwald.
[Gabriela] Ramírez, a social worker by training [and the people's ombudsperson] of Venezuela], said that if the prize were given for speeches, Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, would deserve one.
Evo [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2009
Ken Silverstein, of Harper’s, asks Joe Berlinger six questions about Crude: The Real Price of Oil, his new documentary dealing with the environmental and human degradation of the Ecuadorian Amazon due to oil exploration.
Posted in honduras on Oct 8th, 2009
Narco News got their fingers on some Honduran polling–conducted by Consultants in Investigation of Markets and Public Opinion, which the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal certified in February (meaning Chavez can’t be blamed for its results)–that pretty much lays waste to the de facto government’s claims of support from the Honduran people: 53 percent of the [...]
Posted in Pro–Santa Cruz Commitee, assassination plot, history, opposition on Oct 8th, 2009
The invaluable Bolivia Information Forum shipped October’s news briefing today. There are a couple of items from it that are interesting (along with another item from elsewhere):
President Evo Morales has disbanded the Unit for Tactical Resolution for Crisis (UTARC), a specially trained police force that was involved in the Santa Cruz terror-cell take-down earlier this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2009
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