RSSThe Venezuelan government has received severe domestic and international criticism for blocking cable television channel Radio Caracas Television International (RCTV) from broadcasting its programming. While the natural immediate reaction for most outside observers is to condemn the action as a vi[...]
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China Eyes Venezuelan and Brazilian Oil
• The burgeoning Chinese/Brazilian relationship • Why is China going after Latin America’s distant commodities? • Should the U.S. be alarmed by China’s poaching in its own “backyard”? As China’s economy soared during the 1980’s, its consumption of foreign oil rose as [...]
Chile’s Re-opened Human Rights Investigations and Piñera’s Balancing Act
• Earthquake jars Santiago, preceding a turnover in government and anticipating a paradigm shift in the nation’s values • Will Piñera fool us all or is Chile about to be peppered by intensified neo-liberalism? On March 11, less than two weeks following a devastating earthquake that [...]
Cuba’s Health Politics: At Home and Abroad
The original version of this piece, which has since been further adapted by COHA was published in Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism: Socialist Register 2010. Health Under Capitalism, edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (London: Merlin Press, 2009): 216-239. A modified chapter of this wo[...]
How Much Energy Will It Take to Make Portuguese Go Global?
On December 15, 2009, I was invited to participate in a radio interview over the Voice of America. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was ending, and once again, as has been the case throughout the 2000s, Brazil was up front as a major protagonist for its region as well as fo[...]