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
I went home to Argentina last December for the holidays, and upon my return to New York, most people I ...
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
On May 20, 1998, Alfredo Yabràn, a leading Argentine businessman and the main suspect in a criminal investigation that sent ...
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
The Bush administration’s propaganda machine has taken advantage of Fidel Castro’s recent crackdown on his country’s dissident movement by cranking ...