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Most Venezuelans want a leftist nation, polls find
Being right-wing is not fashionable; trend is toward socialism, studies show
By Luis Hernández Navarro
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
CARACAS – In today’s Venezuela, it…
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Julian Assange asylum: Ecuador is right to stand up to the U.S.
By Mark Weisbrot
From The Guardian
Ecuador has now made its decision: to grant political asylum to Julian Assange. This comes in the wake of an incident that should dispel remaining…
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WikiLeaks: The Latin America files
By Peter Kornbluh
From The Nation
(Note: On July 25, WikiLeaks issued a statement announcing that Julian Assange has hired a renowned international human rights jurist, the Spanish…
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Irregularities reveal Mexico’s election far from fair
By Mark Weisbrot
From The Guardian
The media rewrites history every day, and in so doing it often impedes our understanding of the present. Mexico’s presidential election…
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Paraguay, in crisis
A La Jornada editorial
With an extraordinary session of the Organization of America States (OAS) dedicated to Paraguay as the background, that South American country is the topic of…
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South America responds to coup in Paraguay
By Mark Weisbrot
From The Guardian
A coup is taking place right now – Friday (June 22) afternoon – in Paraguay. That is how it has been described by a number of neighboring…
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Center of gravity in oil shitfs to Americas
By Juan Forero
From The Washington Post
LOMA LA LATA, Argentina - In a desertlike stretch of scrub grass and red buttes, oil companies are punching holes in the ground in search of…
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The U.S. war on Latin America
By Noam Chomsky
From Nation of Change
Though sidelined by the Secret Service scandal, last month’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, was an event of considerable…
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Argentina and magic soybean: the commodity export boom that wasn’t
By Mark Weisbrot
From The Guardian
One of the great myths about the Argentine economy that is repeated nearly every day is that the rapid growth of the Argentine economy during the…
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Thirty-three years of impunity: Who killed my father?
By Carlos Muñiz
To my grandmother, Idania Varela
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - As recently as November 2011, we received some documents that give evidence of the people responsible for…
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