
Solidarity at the Pump: A Proposal for the Oil Exporting Nations of the Third World
When we speak about oil in Latin America, there are several new developments we must take into account: first, a ...

Justice DelayedBut Not Denied
In July, Dominicans celebrated guilty verdicts handed down against four confessed murderers of Orlando Martínez, a young journalist killed in ...

Colombia’s U’Wa People: The Real Price of Oil
"We are all children of the Earth, help us to defend her." Berito KuwarU'wa, spokesperson Traditional U'wa Authority In the ...

Well of Contention: Oil in the Americas
This piece was published in the January/February 2001 issue of the NACLA Report. "Oil, more than any other commodity," comments Fernando ...

Book Review Essay: The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela.
A scant quarter century ago, events seemed to portend a global shift in power and wealth toward the Third World ...

Silent War in Nicaragua: The New Politics of Violence
At 2:30 p.m. on June 15, 2000more than ten years after the U.S.-sponsored Contra war officially ended in Nicaraguaa guerrilla ...

Venezuela’s Balancing Act: Big Oil, OPEC and National Development
Beneath the banks of the Orinoco River in eastern Venezuela lies one of the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the world, ...

IMF and World Bank to Labor Unions: Drop Dead
From October 23 to 25 of last year, the High Command of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World ...