Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Pro-Chavez Multitudes Challenge Media Blackout)

Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Pro-Chavez Multitudes Challenge Media Blackout)

This piece was published in the July/August 2002 issue of the NACLA Report.  So this is how a modern coup ...
Argentina’s Catholic Backlash

Argentina’s Catholic Backlash

I went home to Argentina last December for the holidays, and upon my return to New York, most people I ...
Uruguay: Broken Promises

Uruguay: Broken Promises

In an impressive show of dis- pleasure with the military govern- ment which holds the country in a dictatorial grip, ...
Latin American Journalists Under the Gun

Latin American Journalists Under the Gun

On May 20, 1998, Alfredo Yabràn, a leading Argentine businessman and the main suspect in a criminal investigation that sent ...
Terror and the Press

Terror and the Press

On May 25, Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya was kidnapped, beaten and raped. She was my co-worker at the Bogotá daily, ...
Between a Sharp Tongue and a Blind Eye: The Politics of Criticism and Propaganda

Between a Sharp Tongue and a Blind Eye: The Politics of Criticism and Propaganda

The Bush administration’s propaganda machine has taken advantage of Fidel Castro’s recent crackdown on his country’s dissident movement by cranking ...
Argentina’s Catholic Backlash

Argentina’s Catholic Backlash

I went home to Argentina last December for the holidays, and upon my return to New York, most people I ...