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Elections: Geopolitical Nadir for Chávez and His Movement?

For Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian Revolution, it’s both the best and worst of times.

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Venezuela Elections Pose Big Test

Venezuelans are ready to head to the polls in what will be the first test for President Hugo Chávez and his allies since a government-sponsored constitutional reform project was defeated by referendu

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What's Driving El Salvador's Left Turn?

After more than 15 years since the end of El Salvador's civil war, the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) is poised to accomplish what its guerrilla predecessors never did: Take

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Building the Homeland Security State

Lost in debates around immigration, as the United States enters its greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, is any sense of the historical connection between immigration policy and increa

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Obama and Myths of Racial Democracy

Political pundits have celebrated president-elect Barack Obama’s sweeping and historic victory as evidence that the United States has taken an initial step toward a “post-racial” or “colorblin

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Bolivia: Reform and Reaction in the Hemisphere

Nowhere in the hemisphere have recent political tensions between progressive and reactionary forces been sharper than in Bolivia.

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Another Economic Casualty: Mexican Remittances

The amount of money sent home to Mexico by migrants in the United States this August dropped for the first time on record, according to the Central Bank of Mexico and the World Bank.

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Afro-Latino Voices Shout: Obama! Obama!

With Barack Obama’s election as the 44th president of the United States, celebrations broke out in various predominately Black neighborhoods across the United States.

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Obama and the Americas: A Window of Opportunity

Barack Obama’s victory was celebrated in the streets here in New York well into the early hours of Wednesday morning, and NACLA staff witnessed the impromptu cacerolazos, the honking of hor

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Officers Fired Over Executions Received U.S. Training and Funds

Colombian Army commander Mario Montoya resigned on November 3, in the wake of a scandal over army killings of civilians that a United Nations official on Saturday called "systematic and widespread." A

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