The reality that is Hugo Chavez
By Cesar Chelala | Saturday, December 9, 2006 | The Boston Globe
This is about much more than President Chavez’s recent landslide victory in Venezuela. It is a concise and sweeping review of the last century of Latin American politics and the changing face of US involvement there – both diplomatically and covertly. It is also a loud call for a major change in US policies. We have a unique opportunity to act at this moment in time, Chelala argues. He also reminds us that this is a topic we do not examine enough in US news media, considering that it is brewing in our back yard, geographically speaking…BS
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not so bad a piece considering .. i’d take issue with one characteriziation about Mexico “rebuffing” Mexican left candidate Obrador – that’s a “Florida-style” rebuff with the guy being sworn in in the dead of night. Still for the corporate media it wasn’t such a bad effort at trying to be neutral
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