South America watch

"As U.S. involvement in Colombia escalates,
the situation looks more and more like Vietnam."

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South America

Return of the Repressed? - South America in Age of US Supremacy
The Condor Case [Operation Condor] - The human costs of militarization in Latin America (1/07)

Colombia

Book - Colombia and the United States - War, Unrest and Destabilization

"White lies" about the drug war an Colombia
Wanted Man
Colombia: The U.S. Military is ... on the Wrong Side
Drug Warriors - Colombia
Colombia: Our Next Guatemala?
Colombia on the Brink
GIobalization & Instability - The case of Colombia
Stop the War on Colombia
The Colombian Money Pit
US Policy Contradictory on Colombia
Miami South Com - US policy in Colombia
Colombia: The Politics of Escalation
Colombia: Washington's Next Dirty War
The Colombia Plan: April 2000 - Chomsky
U.S. Intervention in Colombia and Ecuador
Paramilitaries, Drug Trafficking and U.S. Policy in Colombia
Washington's Role in Colombian Repression
United States and Colombia
Clinton's Quagmire - in Colombia
Echoes of Vietnam
Plan Colombia
Into the Abyss - All-Out Destruction Looms in Colombia
Death Falls from the Sky - Plan Colombia's fumigation campaign
An Invasion Foretold - Terror triumphs in Colombia
Colombia's Oil War - U'wa battle Occidental
Colombia: Origins of FARC
Quagmire in Colombia
Plan Colombia: Rhetoric, Reality, and the Press
It's The Real Thing: Murder - Coca Cola in Colombia
A Permanent Yanqui War Against the Colombian Insurgency
U.S. escalates Colombia's dirty war
Picking Our Enemies - US Doesn't Mind Terrorists in Colombia
War in Colombia's Oilfields
Political Economy of Narco-Terror State - Colombia & corporate profits
Mayday Colombia
Stop Killer Coke! - Colombia
Plan Colombia Bleeds into Neighboring Countries (5/04)
Democracy and Plan Colombia (1/07)
War vs Peace: Colombia, Venezuela and the FARC Hostage Saga (2/08)

Peru

Gringa in an Andean Prison
Lori Berenson - an interview with Ramsey Clark
Fujimori's Legacy
U.S. Meddling in Peruvian Presidential Race? (3/06)

Chile

Invisible Hand and Iron Fist - Pinochet and Chile
U.S. in Chile - Pinochet
Hope Comes to Chile
Accountability on Chile
Thirty Years of Chilean Socialism
Chile, 9/11/73
Lessons of a Catastrophe [Chile]
Remembering Allende
Chile Declassified
Pinochet, Stripped (9/04)
Is Chile a Neoliberal Success? (9/04)
Tinker Bell, Pinochet and the Fairy Tale Miracle of Chile (12/06)
Chile: The Good Democracy? (6/07)
The Other 9/11: September, the Cruelest Month in Chile (9/07)

Brazil

Rural Landless Workers Movement of Brazil
Brazil - The Struggle Against Neoliberalism
The IMF and the Brazilian election
Two Models of Land Reform and Development - Brazil
Daring democracy -- Porto Alegre, Brazil
Looking for the Da Silva Lining in Brazil
Now It Is Time: The MST and Grassroots Land Reform in Brazil
Lula Raises the Stakes
Justice Vs Vatican [Brazil] (8/04)
Stun The Right, Outrage The Left-Two Years Of Lula's Rule In Brazil (1/05)

 

Ecuador

Rebellion in Ecuador
Perilous Prosperity
Trading Places - Protesters rock FTAA meetings in Quito
Showdown in Ecuador
Boiling Oil - ChevronTexaco
U'wa Overcome Oxy (2/04)
Ring of Fire - Indigenous communities & the impact of new trade deals in Ecuador and Bolivia (12/04)
Mining War in Ecuador (3/05)
Ecuador: People Drive Out President (4/05)
Ecuador to Evict U.S., Offer Air Base to China (12/07)
Greg Palast interviews President Correa of Ecuador] (12/07)

 

Bolivia

Water FaIlout - Bolivians battle globalization
Rebellion in Bolivia
Bolivia's Water War Victory
Who's Counting? - U.S. plan to eradicate coca crops in Bolivia
Protests Rock Bolivia's Government
Throwing Out a President
Bolivia's Political Earthquake
Bolivia's Second Water War (3/05)
New Uprising In Bolivia (5/05)
Deadly Consequences - IMF Provoked Bolivia into Crisis (5/05)

Bolivia's Battle Of Wills (7/05)
Revolution in Bolivia (7/05)
Bolivian Democracy and the US: a History Lesson (12/05)
Evo Morales Has Plans for Bolivia (12/05)
New Day for Bolivia (2/06)
Bolivia and the Progressive Mandate in Latin America (3/06)
Undermining Bolivia (2/08)
Bush Spending U.S. Tax Dollars to Foment Unrest in Bolivia (3/08)

Argentina

Kissinger and The 'Dirty War' (10/87)
Another IMF Crash - Argentina
The Costs of Orthodoxy|
A Rich Country Goes Bust Again
Who Shot Argentina ?
Argentina's Revolt
Economic Debacle in Argentina
The Argentine Rebellion
The Sacking of Argentina
Disasters of Neoliberalism
Argentina: Epidemic Spreads in Latin America
Argentine military felt secure U.S. backed quashing of leftists ('70s)
Argentina - Between disintegration and revolution
The Unstable Economy in Argentina
Argentina's Elections
Argentine Workers Take Over Abandoned Factories (3/04)
The Long Climb [Argentina] (1/05)
Kirchner's Argentina (11/06)

Venezuela

Hugo Is Boss
Adios Presidente - Will Chavez go the way of Allende?
The US and the Coup in Venezuela
The Coup in Venezuela: An Interview with Temir Porras
Dictatorship or Democracy
US Pushing for a Coup d'Etat
Venezuela: Coup and countercoup
Our Gang in Venezuela?
"We Know What a Coup Looks Like"
Venezuela's Media Coup
Chavez On The Offensive
Venezuela and the Popular Movement
"Bye-bye Aristide, Chavez you're next!" Venezuela: Right-wing opposition clamours for another US-backed coup (3/04)
NED [National Endowment for Democracy] Targets Venezuela (5/04)
Venezuela: The Gang's All Here (7/04)
Dance with democracy - renewed US attempts to remove Hugo Chavez (8/04)
Chavez Hits a Home Run (9/04)
The Venezuelan Referendum (10/04)
A People's Health System - Venezuela (10/04)
Chavez steps up calls for socialism (3/05)
Building a democratic, humanist socialism (Chavez/Venezuela) (3/05)
Is Washington planning a bloodbath in Caracas? (4/05)
Hugo Chavez and Petro Populism (4/05)

Capitalism Is Savagery - excerpts from speech by Hugo Chavez at 2005 World Social Forum (4/05)
Knocking over Dominos in Latin America [Venezuela & Bolivia] (5/05)
AFL-CIO Foreign Policy in Venezuela (6/05)
Venezuela: Myths and Realities (6/05)
The Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (6/05)

Uruguay

Where the People Voted Against Fear - Uruguay - E Galeano (11/04)

Paraguay

What is the U.S. Military Doing in Paraguay? (8/05)
U.S. Military Eyes Paraguay - Rumors of an American base raise fears that the United States is there to stay (11/05)
Possibility of US military presence raises fears in Paraguay - visit by Rumsfeld stirs speculation (12/05)
The US Military Descends on Paraguay (7/06)
Bolívar to Take Asunción (Paraguay) - 2008 elections (5/07)
Dissecting the Politics of Paraguay's Next President (4/08)


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