When President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela called on the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, to end their armed struggle and declared the ‘guerrilla war is history’, he was following a path taken by many revolutionary leaders in the past. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension
November 2007

In contrast to North America and Europe, in Latin America political regimes, social movements and ideologies are in constant flux.  Within a period of a few years, the political pendulum can swing from a seemingly radical leftist wave, to center-left and even rightwing ascendancy .  Likewise major social movements emerge, expand from local or regional power bases to significant actors on the national political scene, play a major role in dispatching right-wing regimes, support and even enter governmental coalitions and then decline, especially if they fail to achieve any of the minimum demands of their supporters.  <a href="http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2008/03/12/1670/#more-1670" class="more-link">(Keep reading...)</a>

MercoPress October 23, 2007

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador’s Pacific coast. (Keep reading…)

Progresso Weekly September 27 - October 3, 2007

For the second straight year hundreds of Latino organizations, leaders and activists from almost every state in the nation, together with leaders from Latin America, will converge in Los Angeles, California, to celebrate the Latino Congreso (www.latinocongreso.org). Starting Friday, October 5, thousands of persons will gather at the Sheraton in downtown Los Angeles and will begin five days of arduous interchange of ideas and discussion. (Keep reading…)

Turkey and Latin America have experienced many similar historical and contemporary political processes and socio-economic changes despite significant cultural and historical differences. For example, Turkey is the center of a former empire, an Islamic country and member of NATO – Latin America is none of those. For purposes of this article, I want to focus on the contemporary socio-economic and political similarities and differences. (Keep reading…)

Prensa Latina August 27, 2007

Parties and movements of the Left of Latin America and the Caribbean were invited today by the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, to have a meeting in 2008 to create an international organization. (Keep reading…)

Monthly Review June 2007

Regrettably, there are all too many candidates that qualify as imminent and very serious crises. Several should be high on everyone’s agenda of concern, because they pose literal threats to human survival: the increasing likelihood of a terminal nuclear war, and environmental disaster, which may not be too far removed. However, I would like to focus on narrower issues, those that are of greatest concern in the West right now. I will be speaking primarily of the United States, which I know best, and it is the most important case because of its enormous power. But as far as I can ascertain, Europe is not very different. (Keep reading…)

ZNET May 03, 2007

Venezuela’s decision this week to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank will be seen in the United States as just another example of the ongoing feud between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Bush Administration. But it is likely to be viewed differently in the rest of the world, and could have an impact on both institutions, whose power and legitimacy in developing countries has been waning steadily in recent years. (Keep reading…)

Deutsche Presse-Agentur March 9, 2007

Sao Paulo/Buenos Aires - Until now there seemed to be no way to stem the growing influence across Latin America of left-wing populist Hugo Chavez, an outspoken critic of the United States. (Keep reading…)

Bloomberg February 28, 2007

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is squeezing the International Monetary Fund out of Latin America, the region that once accounted for most of its business. (Keep reading…)