Recently added articles from NACLA Report on the Americas:
Corrections
May 01, 2009; ... Roger Burbach's article in the March/April issue ("Et Tu, Daniel? The Sandinista Revolution Betrayed") failed to mention that the government investigation of two Nicaragua-based NGOs, the Autonomous Women's Movement (MAM) and Cinco, ...
Venezuela's Opposition: Back Into the Frying Pan
May 01, 2009; ... THE VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION FACED A DIFFIcult question in February, as the country prepared to vote in a national referendum on abolishing term limits. Would participating in the vote mean conceding an institutional victory to the government of President Hugo Chavez? After all, jumping once more ...
Snubbing Davos: The Presidents at the World Social Forum
May 01, 2009; ... FIVE OF LATIN AMERICA'S PRESIDENTS SKIPPED this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, instead making appearances at the World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil. Signaling a deepening disengagement from neoliberal institutions, the presence of Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Hugo Chavez ...
Guadeloupe on Strike: A New Political Chapter in the French Antilles
May 01, 2009; ... ON JANUARY 20 THE CARIBBEAN ARCHI- pelago of Guadeloupe witnessed the launch of the largest political move- ment in its history. For 44 days a mass general strike brought the French overseas territory to a standstill: Schools and universities closed, major commerce was suspended, banks shut ...
A New Model With Rough Edges: Venezuela's Community Councils
May 01, 2009; ... THE MAIN COUNTRY ROAD THAT PASSES BY LAS Cuadras, a poor rural area in the zone of El Valle, in the Venezuelan state of Mérida, sports a new roofed waiting area and sidewalk. Julio Cerrada, a spokesman for the Las Cuadras community council, shows me these and other recent projects, including a ...