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)
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
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“In September, 1973, I was a 26-year-old doctoral student finishing my dissertation research ... my own political ...
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
It is probably inevitable that historical watersheds are transformed into slo- gans of tremendous symbolic power. Nixon encountered his "Waterloo" ...
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
ON OCTOBER 15, 1979 A GROUP OF YOUNG officers carried out a bloodless coup against the government of General Oscar ...