But at the same time has the tenacity to point the finger at Chavez for alleged meddling. Now that seems a bit hypocritical. As the Sandinistas stand poised for a comeback and what could be a fair chance to realize the social reform that they were once prevented by means of state-sponsored terrorism, the U.S. [...]
Continue Reading September 15th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Nicaragua’s National Assembly narrowly votes to destroy another 600 or so SAM-7 shoulder-launched surface to air missiles at the behest of their US overlords and Contras power brokers.
Nicaragua dismantled 1,000 of its missiles in 2005. Washington has sought to convince it to destroy its estimated 1,000 remaining SAM-7s, but Nicaragua insists on keeping 400 of [...]
Continue Reading July 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Is the election in Mexico about to be stolen by the usual suspects? Well, Greg Palast seems to think so.
The foreign mainstream press has already announced, despite the polling discrepancies, that Mexico’s elections were fair and clean, which would be a first for that country where López Obrador’s party has seen its candidates defeated by [...]
Continue Reading July 3rd, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The unending search for precious metals in Central and South America continues to damage the ecosystem, hurt and displace people. While neoliberals can point to a real wage increase for the few that the mining operation in question employs in Honduras, just about everything else has gotten worse.
Honduras is the western hemisphere’s second poorest country [...]
Continue Reading May 13th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Looks like the United States is engaging in some sort of meddling, again, in the small Latin American nation of Nicaragua.
Agonist - The deputy secretary of state, Robert B. Zoellick, arrived here on Tuesday for two days of talks intended to rally support for President Enrique Bolaños against what the secretary called a “creeping coup” [...]
Continue Reading October 5th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Statement of Lori Wallach on CAFTA Final Vote in the House of Representatives
The CAFTA vote became a highly politicized referendum on whether President Bush would be made a lame duck, but the CAFTA debate makes clear that a dramatic shift in U.S. trade politics has occurred, and the NAFTA trade model is dead.
After losing the [...]
Continue Reading July 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Now they’ve done it.
The top Bush administration trade priority in the U.S. Congress, the free trade agreement with Central American countries and the Dominican Republic, known as CAFTA, has moved ahead with approval by a key House of Representatives committee. The Senate is now considering the agreement which brought more debate about the impact free [...]
Continue Reading July 1st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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