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Convincing victory of “populism” in Nicaragua

15:00 10.11.2011

Convincing victory of “populism” in Nicaragua

On November 6, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega was re-elected winning 64 % of votes. The key points of his election program are laconic and comprehensible for Nicaraguan people: socialism, Christianity, free market. Ortega’s opponents have failed to come up with a more convincing alternative. His closest rival - an 80 …

US War on Terror: Provocations, Mystifications, and Illusory Feats

15:00 08.09.2011

US War on Terror: Provocations, Mystifications, and Illusory Feats

A decade ago, the World Trade Center was destroyed in “a terrorist attack” on September 11 in New York. Contrary to all efforts made by the Empire's propaganda and (dis)information machine, the belief in the complicity of hawks from G. Bush's Administration in the whole story did not recede from …

Call for an Immediate Ceasefire in Libya

15:00 05.04.2011

Call for an Immediate Ceasefire in Libya

On March 31, a group of developing countries — Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mali, Equatorial Guinea, etc. - called the UN Security Council to impose a ceasefire on Libya and to take urgent steps to settle the conflict in and around the country. Talks between M. …

US Hopes To Reverse History in Cuba

14:00 29.12.2010

US Hopes To Reverse History in Cuba

Among other revelations, WikiLeaks exposed the US Department of State's plans for a color revolution in Cuba. The agency's report epitomizing the genre describes a coordination forum of Cuba's three top opposition groups counting a total of 63 members. It convened in the office of the political department of the …

WikiLeaks and Latin America

14:00 13.12.2010

WikiLeaks and Latin America

The collection of US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks includes some 20,000 documents pertaining to Latin America. Roughly 13,000 of them came to the US Department of State from the US embassies in Mexico, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Lima, Santiago de Chile, and Bogota, while the remaining 7,000 originated from Caracas, …

The Dawn of the Rousseff Epoch

14:00 02.11.2010

The Dawn of the Rousseff Epoch

The majority of polls picked Dilma Rousseff as the frontrunner on the eve of the presidential runoff in Brazil. Brazil's outgoing president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, a hyper-popular leader whose rating at the final stage of the term in office topped 80%, strengthened Rousseff's bid for presidency by reiterating …

CIA in Paraguay, or How to Get Rid of a President

15:00 28.10.2010

CIA in Paraguay, or How to Get Rid of a President

Paraguay's current president Fernando Lugo used to be known as "the bishop of the poor". He made a fairly quick career in the Roman Catholic church's hierarchy, became a bishop, and later was overwhelmingly voted in as the country's president. Inaugurated on August 15, 2008, he planned to bring profound …

Mexico: Another Failed State

15:00 21.10.2010

Mexico: Another Failed State

These days, Mexico is increasingly often added to the list of failed states. The country started to spiral downwards following the signing of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which exposed its economy, finances, and trade to the devastating pressure from the US. Mexico's industry and agricultural sector …

Elections in Brazil and the US Intelligence Community

15:00 07.10.2010

Elections in Brazil and the US Intelligence Community

It seemed suspicious recently that Washington which tends to denigrate the “immature” democracies of Latin America and the Caribbean without restraint made serious efforts to demonstrate respect for Brazil. G. Bush's Administration bracketed as “immature” the Latin American states with populist regimes and, generally, any countries showing a measure of …

Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA

15:00 04.10.2010

Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA

Ecuador's police forces played the key role in the coup attempt which shattered the country on September 30. The passing of a law affecting the police officers' bonuses and job benefits became a pretext for the rebellion which erupted in the capital city of Quito and the Guayquil seaport town. …

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