Well of Contention: Oil In The Americas

This past summer, Congress approved a $1.3 billion emergency military aid package destined mainly for Colombia. As a result, that

When we speak about oil in Latin America, there are several new developments we must take into account: first, a

In July, Dominicans celebrated guilty verdicts handed down against four confessed murderers of Orlando Martínez, a young journalist killed in

"We are all children of the Earth, help us to defend her." —Berito KuwarU'wa, spokesperson Traditional U'wa Authority In the

This piece was published in the January/February 2001 issue of the NACLA Report. "Oil, more than any other commodity," comments Fernando

A scant quarter century ago, events seemed to portend a global shift in power and wealth toward the Third World.

At 2:30 p.m. on June 15, 2000—more than ten years after the U.S.-sponsored Contra war officially ended in Nicaragua—a guerrilla

Beneath the banks of the Orinoco River in eastern Venezuela lies one of the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the world,

From October 23 to 25 of last year, the High Command of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World

In 1992, President Carlos Salinas, in the midst of his drive to privatize the Mexican economy, oversaw the division of

In July, Dominicans celebrated guilty verdicts handed down against four confessed murderers of Orlando Martínez, a young journalist killed in

In rural Tabasco, a swampy state on Mexico's Gulf Coast, a middle-aged farmer named Don Ramón* has spent the past