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Open Budget Index: Nine in Ten Countries Fail to Provide Budget Information Needed for Government Accountability
23 October 2006, by Manuela Garza Ascencio
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VENEZUELA - Venezuela’s UN Ambassador Accuses Bush Administration of Blackmailing Other Countries Over Contested UN Seat
Francisco Arias Cardenas, Amy Goodman & Linda Golindano, Democracy Now!
23 October 2006, by DialFriday, October 20th, 2006 - Democracy Now! News Program - On Thursday the Bush administration urged Venezuela to give up its campaign to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Over the past four days, the UN General Assembly has conducted 30 rounds of votes to decide whether Venezuela or Guatemala should represent Latin America on the Security Council. Guatemala has won every round of voting but has failed to secure the needed two-thirds majority.
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BOLIVIA-ARGENTINA - Morales y Kirchner suscriben acuerdo para suministro de gas boliviano para los próximos 20 años (TeleSUR)
19 de octubre de 2006, por Dial
19/10/06 - TeleSUR - A partir de 2009, Argentina recibirá diariamente 27,7 millones de metros cúbicos de gas boliviano, que servirá para abastecer a cinco provincias del noreste de Argentina.
Los presidentes de Bolivia, Evo Morales, y Argentina, Néstor Kirchner, suscribirán este jueves un convenio para el suministro diario de 20 millones de metros cúbicos de gas boliviano a Buenos Aires por los próximos 20 años.
Ambos gobernantes se reunirán en la ciudad boliviana de Santa Cruz de la (…) -
AMERICA LATINA - Latinoamérica declara su independencia (por Noam Chomsky, TeleSUR)
19 de octubre de 2006, por Dial
Cinco siglos después de la conquista europea, América Latina está reafirmando su independencia. Especialmente en el cono sur, desde Venezuela hasta la Argentina, la región se está alzando para acabar con el legado de dominación externa de los siglos pasados y con las crueles y destructivas formas sociales que ayudaron a establecer.
Los mecanismos del control imperial —violencia y guerra económica, un recuerdo apenas lejano en América Latina— están perdiendo su eficacia, un signo del cambio (…) -
LATIN AMERICA - Tariq Ali on Hugo Chávez, the Axis of Hope and His New Book ’Pirates of the Caribbean’
Tariq Ali & Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
19 October 2006, by Manuela Garza AscencioTuesday, October 17th, 2006 - Democracy Now! News Program - Voting in the race for Latin America’s open seat on the UN Security Council will go into a second day after delegates failed to end a deadlock between frontrunners Venezuela and Guatemala.
Neither country obtained the 125 votes needed to win, but after ten rounds of voting, Guatemala established a wide lead with 110 to Venezuela’s 77. The balloting resumes Tuesday and could last days until one country prevails or the Latin (…) -
BOLIVIA - Presidente Evo Morales Habla sobre América Latina, la Política Exterior de EE.UU. y el Papel del Pueblo Indígena de Bolivia
Evo Morales, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
5 de octubre de 2006, por DialNoticias de Democracy Now! - Viernes 22 de Septiembre del 2006 - Hace diez meses, Evo Morales hizo historia cuando logro ser el primer líder indígena que se convierte en presidente de Bolivia. En su inauguración en enero, declaró el fin de la era colonial y neo liberal. Desde entonces comenzó a nacionalizar una parte de las reservas energéticas y fortalecer lazos con Venezuela y Cuba.
La llegada de Morales al poder comenzó con su liderazgo en el sindicato de cocaleros y su oposición (…) -
VENEZUELA - Discours du président Hugo Chavez devant l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU, le 20 septembre 2006
3 octobre 2006, par John Malone
New York, 20 septembre 2006.
Madame la Présidente, Excellences, Chefs d’Etat, Chefs de Gouvernement, et hauts représentants des gouvernements du monde, bonjour à tous et à toutes.
En premier lieu je veux inviter très respectueusement ceux qui ne l’ont pas encore fait, à lire le livre de Noam Chomsky - un des plus prestigieux intellectuels de cette Amérique et du monde - un de ses ouvrages les plus récents, Hégémonie ou Survie, La stratégie impérialiste des Etats Unis. Un excellent (…) -
CHILE-UNITED STATES - Thirty Years After the Assassination of Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier, His Son Francisco is Still Seeking Justice
Peter Kornbluh, Francisco Letelier, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
2 October 2006, by DialThursday, September 21st, 2006 - Democracy Now! News Program - Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington DC. Letelier was a high-ranking government official in Chile under President Salvador Allende. Following the 1973 US-backed coup in Chile led by General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier was imprisoned and tortured. After his release, he moved to the United States where we worked for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. (…)
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VENEZUELA - An Analysis of Hugo Chavez United Nations Address on September 20, 2006
Greg Grandin, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
2 October 2006, by DialAMY GOODMAN: Greg Grandin joins us in the studio now, professor of Latin American history at New York University, author of Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism. Welcome to Democracy Now!
GREG GRANDIN: Thanks for having me.
AMY GOODMAN: Your assessment of President Chavez’s speech at the UN and the message he was putting out?
GREG GRANDIN: Well, I think he was speaking on a number of levels. The most immediate level, he was trying to (…) -
BOLIVIA - President Evo Morales on Latin America, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Role of the Indigenous People of Bolivia
Evo Morales, Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
29 September 2006, by DialDemocracy Now! News Program - Friday, September 22nd, 2006 - Ten months ago, Evo Morales made history when he became the country’s first indigenous leader. At his inauguration in January, he declared the end of Bolivia’s colonial and neo-liberal era. Since then he has moved to nationalize parts of the country’s vast energy reserves and strengthen Bolivia’s ties to Venezuela and Cuba.
Morales’ rise to power began with his leadership of the coca growers union and his high-profile opposition (…)