Category Archives: Don’t Cry For Argentina

Festive Left Friday Blogging Too: It’s official now…

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Ladies and gentlemen…the president of Venezuela, NICOLAS MADURO: That’s Chavecito’s daughter, María Gabriela, helping National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello put the sash on her dad’s successor. It’s now official, legal, signed, sealed and delivered. And frankly, nobody cares what those … Continue reading →

Music for a Sunday: Como candela que va…

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Inti Illimani (Chile) and Milva (Italy) pay tribute to a Venezuelan whom we should all know pretty well by now. Here are the lyrics: Simón Bolívar, Simón, Caracan American, the soil of Venezuela gave the force to your voice. Simón … Continue reading →

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The “mysterious” death of João Goulart

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Sabina Becker

It is well known that João Goulart, the popular left-liberal president of Brazil, was overthrown in a military coup that ushered in twenty-one years of fascist military dictatorship, replete with political prisoners (among them, the current president of Brazil, who … Continue reading →

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Compare and Contrast: Argentina vs. Chile

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Sabina Becker

“They have God and the Pope. We have the Devil and the Antichrist.” Ouch!

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The new pope…and the Argentine junta

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Sabina Becker

The two Jorges: Bergoglio, now Pope Francis I, and General Videla, chief of the Argentine junta…face to face*. And, according to the UK Guardian, they were once hand in glove, as well. To the judicious and fair-minded outsider it has … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Solidarity is EVERYWHERE, bitches

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Yesterday, Venezuela was not the only place where people were demonstrating huge support for a certain much-loved president who wasn’t well enough to take his own oath of office (yet!): That was, of course, just one European city. Here’s what … Continue reading →

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Guess who’s joining MERCOSUR!

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Sabina Becker

W00t. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, will ratify on Thursday during the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) Heads of State Summit that Bolivia wants to join the regional bloc. The Bolivian minister of communications, Amanda Dávila, informed that … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: El Ecuadorable is full of win

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Sabina Becker

You can’t keep a good president down…or shut him up. And why would you want to, when he empowers his own people to speak out, too? Especially not when he just won a very important prize for doing just that? … Continue reading →

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Venezuela enters Mercosur

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Sabina Becker

It’s now official, and here’s the group photo to prove it: Chavecito joins presidents Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), Pepe Mujica (Uruguay), and Cristina Fernández (Argentina). And in case you’re wondering how the biggest country in that market bloc feels about this, … Continue reading →

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The Argentine woman who fought in Spain

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Sabina Becker

You want an awesome woman? Here you go…someone who is the very embodiment of the word, finally rescued from obscurity: They called her the Female Che Guevara. Her name was Micaela Feldman, although she preferred to be called Mika Etchébère, … Continue reading →

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