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 ...