Bagua, Peru: A Year After

Friday 25th June 2010, by Kristina Aiello - NACLA

The syndrome of the perro del hortelano, the “dog in the barn,” refers to a dog growling over the food that he neither eats nor lets anyone else eat. This was the image that Peruvian President Alan García evoked in 2007 to describe the many indigenous communities in Peru who intended to protect their lands and resources in the face of the impending free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States. García’s argument was that Peru’s future economic development would be paved with the income generated by the exploitation of the country’s rich natural resources, primarily in the Amazon, which would be facilitated through the signing of free trade agreements.

Honduran Suspicions of US complicity in the Coup - Part One

Thursday 1st July 2010, by Honduras Culture and Politics

Adrienne Pine on quotha.com provides links to new articles on the website of the Frente de Resistencia, along with audio links and emails circulating that relate to suspicions of US foreknowledge about the coup d'etat of June 28, 2009.

[Oliver Stone's new documentary about Latin America's leftward political shift and its growing independence from Washington is being lambasted by the media. This shouldn't come as a surprise as Stone calls out the mainstream media in his new film South of the Border for its mostly one-sided, distorted coverage of the region's political leaders—most significantly Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.]

[For Washington's foreign policy elite, changes in Latin America are viewed through the narrow lens of a cold war mentality.]

Sons of Cuba (PG) 88mins 2010 UK, Dir. Andrew Lang

Trish Meehan - CubaSi (Spring 2010 issue)

The recently released film ‘Sons of Cuba’, a feature length documentary, seems to ask why Cubans bother to continue to make their revolution. What inspired British director Andrew Lang were the words of the young Cuban boxer who had just defeated British lightweight Amir Khan at the 2004 Olympics: 'We are fighters in all walks of life. Ours is a small country – we live to fight.”

An interview with Cuban writer Leonardo Padura

[There is now just less than a week to polling day in the second round of the Colombian Presidential Election, and it appears almost certain that Juan Manuel Santos, the candidate of the ‘U’ and Alvaro Uribe’s ex Minister of Defence, will win fairly comfortably.]

[For a special edition of HARDtalk on the Road, Stephen Sackur travels to Caracas in Venezuela to put a spotlight on the country's claim to be the crucible of 21st Century socialism. The film includes an exclusive interview with the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.]

[Stephen Sackur’s June 13th article in The Guardian, 'Hugo Chavez grants rare interview to Western media,' is quite prejudiced and could use some journalistic objectivity, even if the author is against President Chávez and everything he stands for.]

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