CELAC: A Washington-Controlled OAS Alternative - by Stephen Lendman
On February 23, 2010, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States was established at the Rio Group-Caribbean Community Unity Summit in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
CELAC comprises 33 regional countries. America and Canada are excluded. In July 2010, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Chile's Sebastian Pinera were chosen co-chairs to help draft organizational statutes.
Video-interviewed by Angola 3 News this week while touring the SF Bay Area with his new book Dancing With Dynamite (AK Press), author Benjamin Dangl argues that “because South American social movements have been so successful in the past decade, I think it is important to learn and understand what’s been successful and to apply those strategies and tactics here, where we are facing very similar challenges.”
Benjamin Dangl, author of the new book Dancing With Dynamite (AK Press), was video-interviewed by Angola 3 News this week while visiting the San Francisco Bay Area, on tour with his book, which has been positively reviewed by a range of publications and writers, including Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, who proclaimed that “Ben Dangl breaks the sound barrier, exploding many myths about Latin America that are all-too-often amplified by the corporate media in the United States.”
Low pay and exposure to toxins for wokers in South America flower export market - changing for the better? Talking with a customer and management of Robertson's Flowers in Chestnut Hill...
In the 2004 movie, “Maria Full of Grace,” a pregnant young woman trades the harsh conditions of a flower packing operation in Colombia to come to the United States with a friend as a “drug mule.” It doesn't turn out well.
The flower export business is big business. Large, drab greenhouses, like those in Ecuador where “Maria” was filmed, can stretch for miles. From my bus window, I knew the eerily transformed landscape would not be on any picture postcard I would be sending home to the U.S.
Witness For Peace conducted a retreat in Maryland to discuss issues concerning Latin American-US relations. We covered the coup in Honduras, the Latino Media Collective that broadcasts out of dc.indymedia and action items for citizens to contact their Congresspeople to change US policies.
location: William Way Center ,Community Room, 1315 Spruce St, Philadelphia
Reform or Revolution in Latin America a Socialist Action Forum with
Gerry Foley - International Editor of Socialist Action Newspaper
Gerry Foley is the former Editor of International Viewpoint, an English-language magazine published in Paris, France. He has worked for over 40 years as a journalist, traveling throughout Latin America and Europe on his assignments. Recent years have seen the growth of revolutionary and populist movements in Latin America as workers and peasants resist neo-liberalism and imperialist exploitation.. Popular governments hold power in Bolivia and Venezuela. What is the potential for socialist revolution in Latin America?
There are many different ways that the corporate media continues to misrepresent the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Many critics of this biased media coverage have directly challenged the demonization of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but very few critics, if any, have exposed the media’s virtual erasure of the vibrant and growing participatory democracy in Venezuela.
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Cyril Mychalejko, Upside Down World | 11.17.2009
Latin America may soon become the next front in Washington's so-called "War on Terror." Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) , Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, held a hearing on Oct. 27 to investigate his "serious concerns about expanded Iranian influence in the region.”
Latin America may soon become the next front in Washington's so-called "War on Terror."
The coup regime leader, Roberto Micheletti, threatened to cancel the embassy's immunity if Zelaya were not handed over to the de facto regime. An overall atmosphere of insecurity is now being imposed. President Zelaya called on the armed forces not to attack their own people and encouraged the Honduran people to continue mobilizing for peace and the restoration of constitutional order. The National Resistance Front Against the Coup has sent out a call for a national strike today, and for people to come from all parts of the country to the capital to continue the show of popular support for the return of the democratically elected president.
Call the State Department (202-647-4000) and the White House (202-456-1111) Photo: Honduran President Manuel Zelaya addresses thousands of supporters who have gathered in front of the Brazilian embassy on Monday, September 21, 2009 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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