Project Allende

June 19, 2008

Vulture Funds, The World Bank courts and Argentina Financial Collapse

Argentina Versus the World Bank: Fair Play or Fixed Fight?
By Tony Phillips

Argentina versus el Banco Mundial: ¿Juego limpio o partido arreglado?
By Tony Phillips

Some multinational companies take over our natural resources, privatize basic services, fail to pay taxes and then, when they have no arguments in their defense, they go to the so-called ICSID. And then, in that World Bank tribunal, no country wins against the multinationals. So why do we need an ICSID where only the multinational companies can win?"

President Evo Morales of Bolivia.

See: full article online.
Ver: artículo en español.

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December 21, 2007

Centre For Internation Policy

Climate Change Cause and Effect, An Americas Perspective
By Tony Phillips

In the recent Bali consensus the U.S. government agreed to overall cutbacks and China, formerly exempt as a developing country, agreed to voluntary cut-backs. But how will Latin America affect climate change and be affected by it? Take a look at the major contributors in the region and the effects it is already feeling.

Tony Phillips is a researcher and journalist on trade and multinational finance with an emphasis on dictatorships and the WTO, and a translator and analyst for the Americas Policy Program at www.americaspolicy.org.

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October 26, 2007

Debt & the Dictators who love it

Click "here" to listen in Spanish or to read in English how the latest Argentine dictatorship dragged their country into huge debt to enrich themselves, their friends and to enable foreign multinational expansion in Argentina.

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October 17, 2007

Fujimori and Montesinos

Translated article written by Raúl Zibechi Author and Journalist based out of Montevideo. Raúl speaks to the extradition of El Chino (Peruvian Japanese ex-President/Dictator and his dark assassin, head of the secret police: Mr. Vladimir Montesinos. True cloak and dagger stuff!

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September 28, 2007

CAFTA in Costa Rica Would Cause Deepening Inequality

Translated article written by Costa Rican activist Maria Eugenia Trejos, the basic premise is that Costa Ricans should vote against approval of CAFTA in Oct. 2007, but even if they don't the political organizing against CAFTA shall serve Costa Rica well into its future.

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August 25, 2007

Translation of Umberto Mazzei's 'Guatemala's Kafta-esque Year'

Translated article written by Umberto Mazzei. An analysis of the descrepencies between the promises of the US Ambassador in Guatemala before CAFTA and current reality.

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July 09, 2007

The Ins and Outs of MERCOSUR

Asunción, Paraguay: June 29th 2007
Buenos Aires, Argentina: July 9th 2007
June 28th was summit time in Asunción, capital of Paraguay. Paraguay was pro-tempore president of MERCOSUR, the Latin American trade block for 2007-2008, now it is Uruguay’s turn. Paraguay’s president, Nicanor Duarte, was transferring the reins to Uruguay’s president, Tabaré Vázquez.

Invited were MERCOSUR members and their friends, in this case Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Venezuela was left somewhat in limbo, neither member nor friend.

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July 07, 2007

Translation of Raúl Zibechi's Banco del Sur Article

I decided to help out the excellent organization The Center for International Policy's Americas Program, based in the US and Mexico City, by translating a Spanish article by Raúl Zibechi, Montevideo, Uruguay. If you are interested you can take a look at it by clicking on the banner below:

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June 22, 2007

“Ooh ah, Chavéz no se va!”

“No se va!” – means "[he] won’t go!”: These were the chants in Caracas in 2005 when President Hugo Chavéz Frias faced off a recall referendum which threatened to oust him during his last presidential term, he didn't go then, he is still there (possibly ad-infinitum).

But now he's not going to the presidential party.

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May 21, 2007

New Parliament for Mercosur

Don Sergio Souza Pinto - President of the European Union's delegation for Latin America
Addressing the first session of the Mercosur Parliament, Click for larger version Tony Phillips

Montevideo, Uruguay: May 6th. & 7th 2007
On Monday and Tuesday May 7th and 8th in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, the South American trade block Mercosur took a giant leap forward. The question is: “Toward what?”.

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April 10, 2007

Teacher's Death Brings National Instability

Dateline: Monday, April 9th. 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Updated: Wednesday May 16th. 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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March 25, 2007

Coup Commemoration

Dateline: Saturday, March 24th, 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In Europe politics is predominantly a daytime Monday to Friday activity. In much of Latin America, where voting is compulsory, elections happening on Sundays and many important events begin later, much later (especially in Buenos Aires).