Category: Imperialism

Undermining Bolivia: A Landscape of Washington Intervention

Undermining Bolivia: A Landscape of Washington Intervention

By Benjamin Dangl Thursday, 07 February 2008 Source: The Progressive Magazine, February 2008 Issue US Embassy in La Paz A thick fence, surveillance cameras, and armed guards protect the U.S. Embassy in La Paz. The embassy is a tall, white building with narrow slits of windows that make it look like a military bunker. After…

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The US Military Descends on Paraguay

The US Military Descends on Paraguay

Written by Benjamin Dangl, The Nation Tuesday, 18 July 2006 While hitchhiking across Paraguay a few years ago, I met welcoming farmers who let me camp in their backyards. I eventually arrived in Ciudad del Este, known for its black markets and loose borders. Now the city and farmers I met are caught in the…

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Bolivia, Evo Morales and the Progressive Mandate in Latin America

Bolivia, Evo Morales and the Progressive Mandate in Latin America

Written by Benjamin Dangl & Mark Engler Wednesday, 05 April 2006 On January 21, on a hill outside of La Paz, a traditional ceremony marked both a major shift in Bolivian politics and a milestone for the growing New Left in Latin America. At Tiwanaku, a site of pre-Incan ruins significant to the country’s indigenous…

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Latin America’s Leftist Shift: Hopes and Challenges

Latin America’s Leftist Shift: Hopes and Challenges

By Benjamin Dangl Monday, 13 March 2006 Within the last six years in Latin America numerous social movements have gained momentum in the fight for human rights, better living and working conditions and an end to corporate exploitation and military violence. Recently, left of center leaders have been elected in Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile and Venezuela.…

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An Interview with Evo Morales: Legalizing the Colonization of the Americas

An Interview with Evo Morales: Legalizing the Colonization of the Americas

December 2, 2003 By BENJAMIN DANGL Cochabamba, Bolivia This interview took place a month after Bolivia’s Gas War, a massive social uprising against the proposal to export the nation’s gas to the US through a Chilean port. Bolivia has the second largest natural gas reserves in Latin America. Instead of selling these reserves to the…

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Chile: Coup anniversary sparks national debate

Chile: Coup anniversary sparks national debate

BY BENJAMIN DANGL 24 September 2003 SANTIAGO — Days before the anniversary of the 1973 military coup that overthrew the left-wing government of President Salvador Allende, half of the people on Santiago’s busiest street were shopping. The other half were protesting against the government’s reluctance to take sides in the 30-year-old argument around the events…

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Unembedded Reporting From Iraq: An Interview with Dahr Jamail

Unembedded Reporting From Iraq: An Interview with Dahr Jamail

By Benjamin Dangl Monday, 31 October 2005 In 2003, tired of the US media’s inaccurate portrayal of the realities of the Iraq War, independent journalist Dahr Jamail headed to the conflict himself. Instead of following in the footsteps of mainstream media’s embedded, “Hotel Journalists,” Jamail hit the Iraqi streets to uncover the stories most reporters…

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Students Occupy Army ROTC Building in Puerto Rico

Students Occupy Army ROTC Building in Puerto Rico

Written by Benjamin Dangl Sunday, 06 November 2005 On November 3, thirty students from diverse organizations making up the umbrella group Filiberto Ojeda Rios Contingent – in honor of the independence leader murdered by the FBI last September 23 – took over the Army Reserves Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) building in the University of Puerto…

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Operation Latin American Freedom

Operation Latin American Freedom

By Benjamin Dangl 10/11/05 Preparations are underway for renewed US militarization and intervention in Latin America. To protect its own hegemony and economic interests, the US government is using the threat of terrorism as an excuse for military operations aimed at destabilizing leftist movements and governments and securing natural resources such as oil and gas.…

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“Gringo, Go Home!”- An Interview with Paraguayan Human Rights Activist Orlando Castillo

“Gringo, Go Home!”- An Interview with Paraguayan Human Rights Activist Orlando Castillo

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