South and Central America
Workers Struggles: The Americas
March 24, 2009
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After winning El Salvador vote
FMLN vows respect for private property and Washington
By Bill Van Auken, March 18, 2009
After winning the El Salvador presidential election Sunday, ending the right-wing ARENA party’s two decades of rule, the FMLN vowed to pursue a policy that included defense of private property and c...
Latin America hit hard by world crisis
By Luis Arce, March 18, 2009
As a result of the worldwide capitalist crisis, Latin America’s economies have suffered a massive drop in exports, production and consumption, resurrecting old fears of the continent’s countries g...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
March 3, 2009
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Colombia rocked by wiretapping revelations
By Bill Van Auken, February 27, 2009
A Colombian spy agency under the direct command of President Uribe was implicated in wholesale wiretapping against opposition politicians, judges and journalists, just as the country’s defense minis...
Chavez wins referendum vote as Venezuela’s crisis deepens
By Bill Van Auken, February 19, 2009
President Hugo Chavez registered another victory at the polls last Sunday as Venezuelans voted to end term limits, allowing him to run for a third term. The vote took place amid signs of mounting econ...
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January 20, 2009
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December 16, 2008
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Chinese president tours America’s “backyard”
By John Chan, November 29, 2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visits to Costa Rica, Cuba and his presence in Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit last week testified to Beijing’s more assertive economic a...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
November 18, 2008
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Huge IMF bailout for emerging economies
By Peter Symonds, November 1, 2008
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), backed by central banks in the US and Europe, has taken drastic steps over the past week to prop up so-called emerging economies around the world from Asia to Ea...
Fearing default, Argentina moves to nationalize private pension funds
By Luis Arce, October 24, 2008
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner proposed legislation Tuesday to nationalize the country’s private pension funds—known in Spanish as AFJPs—in an attempt to stave off a new ...
