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March 30th, 2007
Rafael Correa: it is “change of epoch” rather than “an epoch of changes” (1)
ALAI, Latin America in Movement
2007-01-19
AmericaLatina, Ecuador
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In January of 2006 Evo Morales became the president of Bolivia; in November of 2006 Hugo Chávez was elected by a significant majority of votes for a second term in Venezuela; and in January of 2007, one year after Morales, Rafael Correa became the president of Ecuador.
Rafael Correa’s expression […]
March 22nd, 2007
We get what we deserve: On the latest Al Gore and George W. Bush.
I learned to think this way in the early 90s when Carlos Saúl Menem was elected president of Argentina. I was in one of Buenos Aires’s well known book-stores, Librería Gandhi, talking with an admired friend, el Negro Tula, going back to the exciting university years in Córdoba, before Juan Carlos Onganía took power (1966-1970) […]