ELECTIONS IN BRAZIL: Beyond Lula and Dilma
Gerard Coffey
Quito 28 Sept
According to the latest polls, Dilma Rousseff, the Workers Party (PT) candidate in the Brazilian...
The Uruguayan journalist Raul Zibechi is one of the best, and best known, political analysts in Latin America. He has worked with numerous publications...
El periodista uruguayo Raul Zibechi es uno de los mejores, y más conocidos, analistas políticos de América Latina. Su libro ‘América Latina: Contrainsurgencia y...
LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE: Venezuela and Colombia at the UNASUR meeting.
Gerard Coffey
Quito 02 August 2010
The headlines in the Quito’s major newspaper said it...
THE END OF THE BEGINNING: Antanas Mokus and the second round of the Colombian Presidential election.
Gerard Coffey
June 15 2010
There is now just less than...
WATER ON THE BRAIN: no winners in the conflict between Ecuadorian indigenous groups and President Correa
Gerard Coffey
Quito 27th May 2010
The recent...
Oil in the Ground or Pie In The Sky: The Fight for Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park
(Gerard Coffey/Alborada.net)
Monday 1st March 2010,
The resignation of the Ecuadorian...
Man in a Hurry, Better be Careful: Rafael Correa and Ecuador's Citizens' Revolution (Gerard Coffey/Alborada.net)
Wed, 10/21/2009
If politics really is the art of the...
Colombia’s Uribe: riding for a fall?
Published by Red Pepper www.redpepper.org.uk
July 2008
After his dramatic successes against the FARC guerrillas, Colombia’s president, Alvaro Uribe, is riding...
Colombia’s war in the Andes
Published by Red Pepper www.redpepper.org.uk
Colombia’s long-running civil war spilled over the border to Ecuador in a raid against FARC guerrillas...
Rafael Correa and Twenty First Century Socialism
Gerard Coffey*
Quito August 2007
It was the decade of the indigenous peoples. The nineteen nineties saw a tide of...