I recently attended a showing of Oliver Stone’s new documentary film, “South of the Border”, which concerns seven present-day government leaders of Latin America -– in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, Cuba and Brazil — who are not in love with US foreign policy.
During his campaign for the presidency of Paraguay, former bishop Fernando Lugo promised to bring health care to the millions unable to afford it.
A billionaire tycoon who made his fortune in bringing credit cards to Chile during the Pinochet years now has the chance to bring his Midas touch for a nation that appears to have completely buried the ghosts of General Augusto Pinochet. But can Sebastián Piñera appease all of his coalition members?
Western media is indeed rife with all sorts of unfounded accusations, baseless speculations and superfluous insinuations.
To prevent future threats targeting Brazil’s energy infrastructure, it must quickly adapt its defenses to cyberspace.
Last month, the Bolivian government expelled a senior “diplomat” from the US embassy in La Paz, whom it accused of covertly supporting efforts to depose the country’s leftist president, Evo Morales. This past week, Bolivian authorities announced they had foiled operations by a major international anti-government mercenary group operating out of the city of Santa Cruz, a hotbed of anti-government activity in the country’s wealthy eastern provinces.
William Blum’s Anti-Empire Report for March 2009
FPJ Blog – Between the Lines
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