Satan's Poop Inc. Paila Master: LatinAmericaSometimes what's good for Venezuela may have similarities or differences with the rest of that diverse and extensive concept which is Latin AmericaRicardo Haussman on Brazil, Venezuela, Lula and Chavez- December 30, 2002 Ricardo Hausmann, Economist and former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and Professor of of the Schoolof Government at Harvard University on Lula and Chavez, in today's interviewin El Nacional, page B-2:"I think the backing Lula has just given to Chávez will be costly forBrazil. I am sure that his economic and foreign relations team is going tocomplain to him"Why"Brazil's economic situation is very fragile. If good things don&180;t happen ,even those that nonbody is expecting, Brazil is...http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/latinamerica/2002/12/30.html#a351 Brasil and Venezuela: A dangerous intervention- December 27, 2002 The decision by the Brasilian Government, whether new or old, to send a tanker of gasoline to Venezuela, may have grave implications for the future of Brasilian-Venezuelan relations. For those of us in the opposition, this represents not only a clear intervention in the internal affairs of our country, but it also represents an act of agression against us. It is an agression because the Brasilian Government is taking sides in a conflict that matches a majority of 70-80% of Venezuelans, against..http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/latinamerica/2002/12/27.html#a342 What's going on at Human Rights Watch- December 3, 2002 Previously I wrote a couple of articles on Human Rights Watch, a human rights organization based in Washington and New York, which in my opinion has been extremely soft on the Chavez administration and really tough on the opposition to the point of being simply too biased. On October ninth and tenth of this year I wrote articles about this peculiar behavior, given that in its last statement on Venezuela on October 9th., HRW was criticizing the opposition for things that it could criticize the...http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/latinamerica/2002/12/02.html#a227 |