Category Archives: Socialism is Good for Capitalism!

Evo gets a mandate

Posted on July 4, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Get your dirty minds out of the gutter, wingnuts. It’s not a MAN DATE. This is what it’s really about: Bolivian President Evo Morales’ leftist party appears to have won a narrow majority in a new assembly picked to rewrite … Continue reading →

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Evil wicked Cuba sets example again (twice!)

Posted on July 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Don’t you hate it when things like this happen? Uruguay’s Emergency Plan (PANES) Coordinator, Bertha Sanseverino, announced that the country will introduce Cuba’s Literacy Plan, currently applied in many parts of the world. “Just as Venezuela is supporting us in … Continue reading →

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So much for the superiority of the private media…

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Sabina Becker

The Beeb…living evidence that commercial radio just plain sucks, according to the UK Guardian: The BBC’s radio services have “badly bruised” its commercial rivals and Radio 1 and 2 should be sold for £500m, according to an influential report. The … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Just in time for Cinco de Mayo

Posted on May 5, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And while this didn’t happen in Mexico, there were plenty of amigos:Left to right: Presidents Nestor Kirchner (Argentina), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva (Brazil), and Hugo Chavez (Venezuela). Chavecito just did himself proud yet again, by brokering … Continue reading →

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Cool beans? You’re damn (not) tootin’!

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And look where they were developed! A Venezuelan team says fermenting beans with certain friendly bacteria can cut the amount of wind-causing compounds, and boost beans’ nutritional value. The research appears in the Journal of the Science of Food and … Continue reading →

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45 years ago in Cuba…

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Here’s another little snippet the CIA would rather we all forgot, courtesy of Prensa Latina: The smoke of the battle of Playa Giron dissipated 45 years ago when the Cuban people defeated the mercenary attack concocted by the US to … Continue reading →

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Another unsexy post on de-privatized Argentinian water…

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…which, if you’re smart, you’ll read anyway, because one day it could concern YOU. (I’ll tell you why shortly…) Bob Chapman, of the International Forecaster, writes: Water is contaminated in some suburbs of Buenos Aires and has been since 1993, … Continue reading →

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Bolivia says bye to the IMF

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Well, this has got to be a foregone conclusion: Bolivia looks about set to kick the IMF to the curb for good. Here are some of the damning bits: The track record of the Fund’s involvement in Bolivia over the … Continue reading →

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…and equal mediocrity for all

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Sabina Becker

What a surprise. Seems the much-vaunted US healthcare system (or rather, LACK thereof) just ain’t all that ‘n’ a bag of chips, after all… Startling research from the biggest study ever of U.S. health-care quality suggests that Americans — rich, … Continue reading →

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East Timor: the next Venezuela?

Posted on March 10, 2006 by Sabina Becker

A certain leader in South America is setting a powerful good example–look who could be next in following it: East Timor must invest its newfound wealth from oil and natural gas into rural development projects in order to lift the … Continue reading →

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