Note: Highlighting an interesting article, by Canadian author Linda Mcquaig, on Hugo Chavez and his legacy, not just for Latin America, but wider afield, particularly in relation to oil and gas resources: Linda McQuaig: Had Hugo Chavez followed the pattern of many Third World leaders and concentrated on siphoning off his nation’s wealth for personal [...]
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R.I.P. Hugo Chavez, 28th July 1954 – 5th March 2013 Photo: (Wikipedia) – Português do Brasil: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e Hugo Chávez, 27 June 2008, Author: Marcello Casal Jr./Abr -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_crop.jpg Video Feed: (Live), Russia Television – Venezuela: Chavez body departure – http://rt.com/on-air/venezuela-chavez-body-departure/
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has successfully completed surgery in Cuba and has started a period of recovery after being diagnosed with cancer again recently. “The [recovery] state will last several days, and we will provide information daily on the progress of our president,” Vice-president Nicolas Maduro stated. (Venezuela Analysis). “It was a complicated operation, and [...]
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“Markets may not bear a grudge but they know their enemies.” – Financial Times Columnist on the market’s reaction to the death of Kirchner. [1] On Wednesday, October 27th 2010, the former President of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, died suddenly. A Reuter’s article, published on the 28th, accurately described business reaction: “Argentine bonds and stocks rose [...]
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Brazil’s President Lula has signed a contract allowing the construction of the hugely controversial Belo Monte mega-dam on the Amazonian Xingu River to go ahead. Lula said, ‘I think this is a victory for Brazil’s energy sector’. Belo Monte, if built, will be the third largest dam in the world. It will devastate the [...]
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Financial Journalist Martin Wolf writing in the Financial Times stated that the package agreed on Sunday “is overtly a rescue of Greece, but covertly a bail-out of banks.” “Greece is being asked to do what Latin America did in the 1980s. That led to a lost decade, the beneficiaries being foreign creditors. Moreover, as creditors [...]
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Troops under United Nations command have opened fire on crowds of hungry Haitians seeking food, an ominous sign of impending confrontation between the people of the earthquake-wracked country and the armed forces dispatched there under the auspices of the imperialist powers. On Monday, Uruguayan troops, part of the UN peacekeeping force deployed here since 2004, [...]
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“Thousands of Haitians are dying every day for lack of medical care and supplies, according to a leading humanitarian aid group. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has announced that it is expanding the US military presence in the country, maintaining Washington’s priority of troops over humanitarian aid. The US-based medical aid group Partners in Health has warned [...]
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“The Haitian government declared a state of emergency on Monday, six days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake laid waste to much of the nation and its capital, Port-au-Prince, killing at least 200,000, according to the latest estimate. The state of emergency creates martial law conditions that will be enforced by the US military. Secretary of [...]
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According to Naomi Klein, the following quote was hastily yanked by the Heritage Foundation and replaced with a more diplomatic quote: “In addition to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, the U.S. response to the tragic earthquake in Haiti earthquake offers opportunities to re-shape Haiti’s long-dysfunctional government and economy as well as to improve the public image [...]
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