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A President, A Soccer Star and the Dreams of Millions

by Federico Fuentes

Caracas (Venezuela) | 14 November 2005

Even before he got to Mar de Plata, known as the “happy city” by Argentines, US President George Bush knew his time was going to be anything but happy at the Summit of the Americas meeting. He arrived with more than 2000 US agents, and a plan to use one puppet president to avoid stirring (...)

Economic globalization or political independence?

South Americans choose between two projects of integration

by EDGARDO LANDER

6 July 2005

South Americans have put obstacles to the implementation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas promoted by Washington by creating another project of regional integration: the South American Community of Nations. Professor Edgardo Lander analyzes these two conflicting visions and their (...)

Hugo Chavez Frias and the Sense of History

by Michael Keefer

Caracas (Venezuela) | 3 May 2005

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias delivered a major summary of his government’s current international initiatives today at an event which combined a moment of intense Venezuelan-Cuban diplomatic and commercial interactions with the meetings of the Fourth Hemispheric Conference Against the (...)

The meaning of war: A heterodox perspective

by James Petras

Caracas (Venezuela) | 14 March 2005

Introduction
This paper will discuss the social, political, economic, psychological and ideological causes and impacts of war in contemporary history. Obviously we cannot explore all of these dimensions in detail; instead we will focus on what we consider the most important dimensions of (...)

Dossier: The United Sates and Spain, intervention by foreign governments in the April 2002 coup d’état in Venezuela.

Venezuela: A Coup With The Smell Of Hamburger, Ham And Oil

by Aram Aharonian

Caracas (Venezuela) | 29 November 2004

The Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister, Miguel Ángel Moratinos acknowledged the role played by the Spanish government in the coup d’état in Venezuela in April 2002, thus confirming this allegation and reopening the debate over foreign intervention in the Latin American processes, especially in (...)

American Peace

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

25 August 2004

Created in 1910 at the initiative of iron manufacturer Andrew Carnegie, the foundation named after him became, in one century, one of the richest think tanks (center for research, propaganda and spreading of ideas, generally of a political nature) of the world. Headed by a long succession of (...)

The Venezuelan Referendum: The Truth about James Carter

by James Petras

Caracas (Venezuela) | 14 July 2004

On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and (...)