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Unidad Nacional on campaign
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 05 Feb, 2004 at 01:42 PM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Several weeks ago, Bolivian business mogul Samuel Doria Medina left MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left) & launched his own political party, FUN (Frente de Unidad Nacional). Last week, Doria Medina joined some alteņo dirigentes in a march through El Alto. This past week, the party's militantes have been out...
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bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 03 Feb, 2004 at 01:16 PM | comments (2) | trackback (0)
Mesa presented his austerity plan (of sorts) Sunday night. There's no gasolinazo nor garrafazo in store — at least not yet. The entire plan includes 23 executive decrees & 3 bills presented for parliament's approval. It also involved six "focus areas": austerity; production, exports & job creation; solidarity; highway infrastructure;...
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 02 Feb, 2004 at 01:48 PM | comments (3) | trackback (0)
There's been some attention paid to the role of El Alto (the sprawling slum twin city of La Paz) in national politics. After all, October's guerra del gas was primarily an alteņo affair. It wasn't until after the city of La Paz had been besieged & cut off from the...
brazil | by Mike Derham | 02 Feb, 2004 at 10:08 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
Jeffrey Sachs, the global development guru had an op-ed piece in Friday's Miami Herald praising both Lula and Fernando Henrique Cardoso in providing the leadership necessary to help Brazil weather the economic crises of 1999 and 2002:...
bolivia | by Miguel Centellas | 01 Feb, 2004 at 05:07 PM | comments (2) | trackback (0)
The city's abuzz, anticipating Mesa's big speech tonight at 9pm. He's going to unveil his administration's economic austerity plan. The government has to somehow bridge the gap between income & expenses (it spends about twice as much as it brings in). How'll Mesa do it? What's the big plan?...
Electoral authority at the center of controversy
politics | by Miguel Octavio | 25 Jan, 2004 at 09:41 PM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
As Venezuelans look for a solution to their political crisis via elections, the referee in the process is being questioned by all sides and even from within. After a week in which pro-Government and opposition groups continued questioning the Electoral Board known as the CNE (Comision Nacioanl Electoral), the two...
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Doubts About Bush Immigration Plan
politics | by Mike Derham | 12 Jan, 2004 at 01:26 PM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
A quick follow-up to the previous post on the Bush administration's announced proposal to allow illegal immigrants in the US to register as temporary workers shows that the proposal has been received with some skepticism....
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Braceros Back in Action
politics | by Mike Derham | 07 Jan, 2004 at 10:53 AM | comments (8) | trackback (0)
The New York Times and the Washington Post both have front page articles unveiling Bush's new temporary worker plan to document illegal immigrants. If you listen quietly, you can hear Vincente Fox dancing with joy....
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Britain Cuts Rainforest Funding to Pay for Iraq Mop-up
brazil | by Stephen George | 24 Nov, 2003 at 06:00 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
If not for a copy left behind by a visiting friend, I would have missed this little tidbit from the front page of the November 12th Independent (UK) (and evidently the NY Times), archived on the Truthout website, about the UK's reduction in its International Development budget, redirecting the funds...
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"US loses the war of steel"
brazil | by Stephen George | 11 Nov, 2003 at 06:19 AM | comments (0) | trackback (0)
There is clear delight in Brazil this morning after the WTO decision that US tariffs on steel imports are contrary to the rules of the agreement, and the economy pages of the papers are dominated by the news. Brazil's ambassador to the WTO is quoted in O Globo this morning...
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"Several weeks ago, Bolivian business mogul Samuel Doria Medina left MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left) & launched his own political party, FUN (Frente de Unidad Nacional). Last week, Doria Medina joined some alteņo dirigentes in a march through El Alto. This past week, the party's militantes have been out..."
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