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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:16:36

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged South American leaders to withdraw their assets and move their international reserves from US.

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Latin American development presents us with a rich array of paradoxes, which befuddle the predictions, prescriptions, and commentaries of writers and academics from the right and left. Abrupt changes and shifts in the political correlation of forces is matched ( Read more... )

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posted June 08, 2008 4:39 pm
Tomgram: Greg Grandin

At least once a week -- I've long suspected -- the Chinese leadership must file into the streets of Beijing's Forbidden City to sing, dance, and pray to the (geo)political gods who drew the Bush administration into the black (gold) hole of Iraq. Without Iraq, we would undoubtedly have ( Read more... )