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Two months have passed since the referendum in Colombia. It is safe to say the government lost that referendum, even though the…
Hector Mondragon
Hector Mondragon is a university professor in Colombia, Brazil and Portugal. He is an advisor to peasant, indigenous and Afro-descendant organizations. Author of the book "Economic Cycles in Capitalism".
The failed referendum of Uribe Velez’s government has had the same effect as the child who declares: “the emperor has no clothesâ€.…
The response of the President has pitted the real Alvaro Uribe against the country in the same way that he pitted himself…
When, one after another, the delegates of the WTO ministerial in Cancun were confessing that the meeting had failed and that there…
Protests swirled around the Peruvian president in Cuzco when on May 23 he declared his support for the president of Colombia at…
Who is there like Alvaro Uribe Velez? Who can stand against him? The mass media spend their days hopelessly trying to demonstrate…
In less than a month, a law and a pair of presidential decrees from Uribe have institutionalized what many years of violence…
Here is a state used by an imperial power to impose its order in a region. In every sphere, with every dollar…
The economics team of Colombia’s Uribe government proposed, and won, an increase of $16 billion USD in the state’s external debt. That…
At the petroleum refinery of Barrancabermeja the workers who are consigned to hard manual labour are called ‘lungos’. There are a lot…