South and Central America
Workers Struggles: The Americas
December 16, 2008
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Chinese president tours America’s “backyard”
By John Chan, November 29, 2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visits to Costa Rica, Cuba and his presence in Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit last week testified to Beijing’s more assertive economic a...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
November 18, 2008
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Huge IMF bailout for emerging economies
By Peter Symonds, November 1, 2008
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), backed by central banks in the US and Europe, has taken drastic steps over the past week to prop up so-called emerging economies around the world from Asia to Ea...
Fearing default, Argentina moves to nationalize private pension funds
By Luis Arce, October 24, 2008
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner proposed legislation Tuesday to nationalize the country’s private pension funds—known in Spanish as AFJPs—in an attempt to stave off a new ...
Washington imposes sanctions on Bolivia
By Rafael Azul, October 1, 2008
The Bush administration has imposed fresh sanctions on Bolivia in retaliation for the decision of the country’s president Evo Morales to expel the US ambasssador and close down US programs in th...
New documentary on Pinochet’s dictatorship: Some wounds should not heal
By Debra Watson, September 25, 2008
The Judge and the General tells the story of recent efforts to bring to justice the perpetrators of horrific acts of political repression committed three decades ago under Chilean military dictator Au...
Latin American presidents meet with Bolivia on brink of civil war
US ambassador an expert in partition
By Rafael Azul, September 16, 2008
The presidents of nine Latin American nations assembled in the Chilean capital of Santiago Monday for an emergency summit of the recently created Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to deal with ...
Former Argentine generals sentenced to life
US links to the junta
By Debra Watson, September 8, 2008
At the end of last month two former Argentine generals were convicted of kidnapping, torturing and murdering a senator three decades ago, during the military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla.
Rising inflation and unemployment in Chile drive workers into debt and poverty
By Roger Silva, July 8, 2008
Chile is characterized by some economists as the most “globalized” nation in Latin America. The more conservative among them present it as a model to be followed by other countries on the ...
Mounting questions about Colombian hostage operation
By Bill Van Auken, July 7, 2008
As right-wing politicians on three continents basked in the reflected glory of an ostensibly brilliant July 2 rescue of hostages held by Colombia’s FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia) ...
Latin America: What are the real interests behind the creation of the Union of South American Nations?
By Carlos Prado, May 28, 2008
Last Friday, May 23, presidents and representatives of 12 South American countries met in Brasilia to sign a treaty creating the Union of South American Nations, or Unasur.
