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, 2000—more than ten years after the U.S.-sponsored Contra war officially ended in Nicaragua—a 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 ...
Mexican Pipeline: The Future of Oil Under Vicente Fox
In 1992, President Carlos Salinas, in the midst of his drive to privatize the Mexican economy, oversaw the division of ...
Justice Delayed—But Not Denied
In July, Dominicans celebrated guilty verdicts handed down against four confessed murderers of Orlando Martínez, a young journalist killed in ...
Oil at the Grassroots: Report from Tabasco
In rural Tabasco, a swampy state on Mexico's Gulf Coast, a middle-aged farmer named Don Ramón* has spent the past ...
