Bolivia

Video of the day

July 5, 2011

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez shows “Fidel’s Team”- an “army” of Cuban medical staff overseeing his health to Bolivia President Evo Morales, Paraguay President Fernando Lugo and Uruguay President José Mujica.

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Bolivia CINC visits Havana

July 5, 2011

Admiral Armando Pacheco, Commander in Chief of Bolivia’s Armed Forces is on an official visit to Havana with the purpose of strengthening bonds with the Cuban Armed Forces. The Bolivian admiral, who is accompanied by a military delegation, arrived in Havana on Saturday and will remain in the island until July 9. [ACN]

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Regional armed forces

June 9, 2011

Cuba and Venezuela are pushing for the formation of a military academy with a “Latin Americanist doctrine” for ALBA, affirmed Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro, who accompanied Hugo Chavez in his trip to Havana this week. [El Universal] ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas) was organized by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez in 2004 as [...]

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Calm before the storm

June 22, 2010

Jorge Castañeda’s (former Mexican foreign minister and NYU professor) piece on geopolitics in Latin America and the two competing regional blocs: “Americas-1″—nations neutral to the conflict between the United States and Venezuela/Cuba or are openly opposed to the “Bolivariano” governments of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela; and “Americas-2″—radical left nations moderately retreating but able [...]

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Ecuador’s govt using CDR to surveil rural areas

October 4, 2009

It looks like Ecuador is adopting Cuba’s CDR model to surveil rural areas of the country, reports El Universal. A force of 15,000 members is being proposed first for Manabi province. Cesar Alvarado, director of PAIS, said: “The CDR (Committee of Citizen Revolution — Comites de Revolucion Ciudadana) will be responsible for monitoring the Citizen [...]

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In Latin America democracy isn’t here to stay

September 14, 2009

Mario Vargas Llosa’s new book Sables y Utopías: Visiones de América Latina (Sabers and Utopias: Visions of Latin America) is a half-century collection of essays, reflections and letters about every type of political personality and Latin American culture. The Spanish daily, El País, presents Varas Llosa’s clear thoughts on some present Latin American leaders and [...]

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