CHILE: The Story Behind the Coup

CHILE: The Story Behind the Coup

It was, countless newspapers and magazines informed us, the “most triumphant” story of 2010. The rescue of 33 Chilean miners ...
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 ...
Divided Society on the Brink

Divided Society on the Brink

As this is written in mid-January, Venezuela’s fourth business-led general strike in a year is into its seventh week. At ...
Eyewitness to a Coup

Eyewitness to a Coup

Eyewitness to a Coup“In September, 1973, I was a 26-year-old doctoral student finishing my dissertation research ... my own political ...
HAITI The Elite's Revenge

HAITI The Elite’s Revenge

For many Haitians, the presidency of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide marked a joyous new beginning, a "second in- dependence." The first ...
Chile and History: The Meanings of 1973

Chile and History: The Meanings of 1973

It is probably inevitable that historical watersheds are transformed into slo- gans of tremendous symbolic power. Nixon encountered his "Waterloo" ...
DANGEROUS CROSSROADS

DANGEROUS CROSSROADS

Not so long ago, most everyone on the Left agreed that U.S. military intervention in the internal affairs of another ...
Locked in Battle

Locked in Battle

ON OCTOBER 15, 1979 A GROUP OF YOUNG officers carried out a bloodless coup against the government of General Oscar ...