Category Archives: Don’t Cry For Argentina

“Constitutional” coup d’état in Paraguay. Film at 11.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Sorry, folks, no Festive Left Friday entry this week. Your Aunt Bina is feeling more restive than festive tonight, because the shit has officially hit the fan in a certain landlocked South American country, famous for its maté and its … Continue reading →

Posted in All About Evo, Brazil is the Bomb!, Don't Cry For Argentina, Ecuadorable As Can Be, El NarcoPresidente, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Law-Law Land, Paraguay, Uruguay, Spooks, The WTF? Files | 3 Comments

Festive Left Friday Blogging: A new monument to Che

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Sabina Becker

A plaque marking a special place in Venezuela where Che Guevara himself set foot in the early 1950s, on the Collado del Condor in the Venezuelan Andes, was unveiled today, on the 84th anniversary of his birth, and the 60th … Continue reading →

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Big break for Argentina’s disappeared

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Sabina Becker

General Jorge Rafael Videla, de facto military dictator of Argentina, 1976-81. The wheels of Argentine justice turn with painful, creaking slowness. But they’re still moving, and today comes news that things could start moving forward a lot faster: Last Thursday, … Continue reading →

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How evil triumphed in Argentina and British Columbia

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Riddle me this: What does this… “It wasn’t one or two cases, or one or two officers involved, but many, thus there was a pattern, a plan” to take away those babies from their biological families which they considered “non … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Two million and counting!

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Ahem. Make that two and a HALF million… And now, the story from Aporrea: At 10:06 this morning, and three months shy of his second anniversary on Twitter, President Hugo Chávez made history as the most-followed head of state on … Continue reading →

Posted in Brazil is the Bomb!, Chile Sin Queso, Don't Cry For Argentina, Ecuadorable As Can Be, El NarcoPresidente, Festive Left Friday Blogging, Huguito Chavecito, Mexican Standoffs, Socialism is Good for Capitalism! | 2 Comments

Photoshop du jour: A dream jam session

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Sabina Becker

You say you want a revolution? You got it: “Imagínate que no hay cielo…” Can’t you just hear it?

Posted in Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Don't Cry For Argentina, Fun With Photoshop, Merry Old England | 1 Comment

MerCHEdes? Of atrocities and apologies (still owing) from Mercedes-Benz

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Yes, the above is an atrocity, and a gross violation of rights. But not for the reasons the gusanos of Miami claim. Cubadebate explains what’s really horrible about it: The luxury-vehicle company Mercedes-Benz apologized this week for having used the … Continue reading →

Posted in Confessions of a Bad German, Crapagandarati, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Don't Cry For Argentina, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Isn't That Illegal?, Law-Law Land, Morticia! You Spoke French!, Sick Frickin' Bastards, Spooks, The United States of Amnesia | 1 Comment

Keystone XL: Dirty oil barons threaten Obama

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Sabina Becker

The clearest, most concise explanation yet of why the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would ferry dirty tar-sands oil from Alberta to Texas, must not proceed. Yes, all this talk of “ending our dependence on foreign oil” is a LIE. … Continue reading →

Posted in Barreling Right Along, Brazil is the Bomb!, Canadian Counterpunch, Chile Sin Queso, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Don't Cry For Argentina, Ecuadorable As Can Be, Environmentally Ill, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Obamarama!, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito’s back, Cristina’s on the mend

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Good news from Venezuela… The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, will return on Sunday with his well-known TV program, Aló Presidente, which has been on hiatus for seven months. This will be the first show since Chávez recovered from the cancer … Continue reading →

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Cristina gets cancer, Chavecito gets topical, Jezebel gets Teh Stoopid

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Dear lord, what is it with progressive LatAm leaders getting the fucking C-word? First it was Dilma, then Lugo, then Chavecito, then Lula, and now Cristina? President Cristina Kirchner is suffering from a papillary cancer in the right lobe of … Continue reading →