NACLA Report on the Americas back issues from January 2006:
Regional Integration: By the People, For the People
Jan 01, 2006; ... A SLEW OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION EFFORTS COMING out of Latin America and the Caribbean, billed as alternatives-or at least counters-to U.S. and EU colonial and trade dominance, are turning out to be not much of either. These integration projects are mired in conflicts that reflect disparate ...
Venezuela's Revolution and the Oil Company Inside
Jan 01, 2006; ... IN A DRAB INDUSTRIAL SUBURB OUTSIDE Caracas lies the Guatire gasoline distribution facility, property of the state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, Sociedad Anónima (PDVSA). The plant isn't much to look at-a few flat buildings, a series of larger spherical tanks and four loading bays ...
U.S. Policy on Cuba Beyond the Last Gasp
Jan 01, 2006; ... IN THE FALL OF 2005 THE NATIONAL Intelligence Council of the CIA added Cuba to its secret list of 25 allegedly unstable countries where U.S. intervention might be required.1 This move followed secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's appointment in July of Caleb McCarry as coordinator of the U.S ....
Cuban Development in the Bolivarian Matrix
Jan 01, 2006; ... LAST SUMMER, THE HAVANA AIRPORT BUZZED with traffic. Caracas had become the most connected city to Havana, with Venezuela quickly becoming one of the top senders of travelers to the island. Most of the Venezuelans arriving at the airport came to the island seeking medical attention; in the ...
TORTURE: DOES IT MAKE US SAFER? IS IT EVER OK? A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE/TRUTH, TORTURE AND THE AMERICAN WAY: THE HISTORY AND CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN TORTURE
Jan 01, 2006; ... TORTURE: DOES IT MAKE US SAFER? IS IT EVER OK? A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE edited by Kenneth Roth and Minky Worden, 2005, The New Press, 218 pages, $25.95 Cloth. TRUTH, TORTURE AND THE AMERICAN WAY: THE HISTORY AND CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN TORTURE by Jennifer K. Harbury, 2005, ...
Cuban Civil Society: I. Reinterpreting the Debate
Jan 01, 2006; ... ANY ANALYSIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN CUBA faces two major difficulties, one of a theoretical and the other of a political nature. The theoretical difficulty stems from ambiguities in the way the concept of civil society is used in the contemporary social sciences. The political difficulty arises ...
U.S.: Washington Blurs Lines Between Pentagon and USAID
Jan 01, 2006; ... In Brief News from Latin America For frequently updated news from Latin America, check our Web site <www.nada.org;>. Register on the site to receive our email newsletter. THE U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL Development (USAID) has created several military advisory ...
Brazil's Landless Youth Come of Age
Jan 01, 2006; ... WHILE VETERAN LEADERS and organizers continue to play a fundamental role in Latin America's most vital social movements, the emergence of new youth leadership from within has proved both a significant force for change and a guarantee that organizations will carry on their struggles into the ...
NACLA ERRATA
Jan 01, 2006; ... The introduction of our last issue, "The Diaspora Strikes Back" (Nov/Dec 2005), failed to mention that the title of the issue was borrowed from an upcoming book project by Juan Flores, whose article with the same title was featured in the magazine. The editorial "Listen to America" in ...
Colombia's Indigenous Caught in the Conflict
Jan 01, 2006; ... COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT ÂLVARO URIBE AND his many supporters in and out of government often point out that under his "Democratic security" strategy implemented since 2002-with the unwavering support of the White House-the government has been able to regain control of over 500 municipalities, ...
CUBA IN THE AMERICAS LOOKING INWARD, REACHING OUT
Jan 01, 2006; ... FEW EVENTS IN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN history have proven as earth-shattering as when the ragtag rebel forces rode triumphantly into Havana on New Year's Day 1959. The Cuban Revolution galvanized the hopes of popular forces throughout the hemisphere as much as it rattled the arrogance of ...
A SAFE HARBOR FOR LUIS POSADA CARRILES
Jan 01, 2006; ... When President Bush traveled to Argentina in November for a summit with Latin American leaders, he was greeted by a formal diplomatic denunciation of his Administration's refusal to extradite international fugitive and convicted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela. This followed a ...
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS AGAINST U.S. POLICY
Jan 01, 2006; ... The world of lobbying against U.S. policy toward Cuba offers an instructive lesson in the ironies and vagaries of coalition politics. Consider last April's Cuba Action Day, which mobilized about 700 constituents from 35 states in Washington, D.C. to persuade their congressional representatives ...
Cuba's Foreign Policy and the Promise of ALBA
Jan 01, 2006; ... IN HIS BEST-KNOWN WORK, CUBAN INDEPENDence hero José Martí called for no less than a "second independence of our America" in the face of American imperialism, or as he termed it, "la Roma Americana" (the American Rome). For Cuba's revolutionary government, this required-and still requires-the ...
Cuban Civil Society: II. Future Directions and Challenges
Jan 01, 2006; ... IF WE DEFINE ACTORS (SOCIAL, POLITICAL, economic) as groups having a distinctive public profile and defined interests vis-avis the system they seek to preserve, replace, or simply change, then it is extremely difficult to speak of actors in Cuba. Because of the way in which Cuban society has ...
STATE OF FEAR
Jan 01, 2006; ... STATE OF FEAR, a film by Pamela Yates, Paco De Ónis and Peter Kinoy, USA/Peru, 2004,94 minutes. A YOUNG WOMAN ON HER WAY TO enroll in college is detained by the military, tortured to give up information she does not possess about student leaders, and after subsequent rapes and a sham ...
ARGENTINA: A Kindergarten Joins Movement
Jan 01, 2006; ... THE LARGE BRICK BUILDING HANGS heavy and desolate, lacking the welcoming pastel colors found at other Argentine kindergartens. But this is not a typical kindergarten; this is Crecer Imaginando en Libertad (Imagine Growing in Liberty, or CIEL), the kindergarten of a community education and ...