U.S. Policy Toward Venezuela: Playing With Oil, Playing With Trade, Playing With Fire Radical right-wing Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson took the future of U.S. diplomacy in South America into his own hands Monday night when he urged the U.S. government …
Monthly Archive: August 2005
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Look out Telenovelas, Telesur is in Town
On July 25, the much anticipated satellite television station, Telesur, inspired by Hugo Chávez and founded by the Venezuelan government with support from Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, aired across South America to an estimated two million viewers. Network founders …
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Rumsfeld and Rice on Chávez: But Where’s the Beef?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Paraguay and Peru this week and reiterated claims that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had been “unhelpful[ly]” involved in the ouster of Bolivian President Carlos Mesa. If this is true, where is the evidence? …
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Diploma Scandal at the University of Panama Further Mires the Torrijos Government in Corruption Charges
The distribution of thousands of fraudulent diplomas by the University of Panama (UP) launches an escalating scandal, involving the administration at the highest levels. President Martin Torrijos’ refusal to seriously investigate the educational institution’s growing uproar or to curb UP …
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Peru: A Broken Democracy
Immediately following allegations in March of this year that Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo had conspired with his sister and senior officials of his Peru Possible (PP) political party to forge thousands of signatures permitting him to register for the 2000 …
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