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Costa Rica: The lowest form of military aggression

by Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños

29 August 2010

On 1 July 2010, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly authorized the U.S. military to undertake policing duties in Costa Rica, based on an expired “Cooperation Agreement.” There is only one small problem: Costa Rica abolished its armed forces in 1949 and since then has had no standing army, (...)

A Historic Moment:

The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 12 December 2008

Just as Obama’s electoral campaign and subsequent victory will go into the annals as the political con-job of the new millennium, his economic and political appointments will mark another ‘historic’ moment: The nomination of corrupt and failed speculators and warmongers. Let us join the (...)

A lifetime concession

Caño Limón: from an oil field to a border military base

by Alfredo Carquez Saavedra

Caracas (Venezuela) | 16 November 2004

Oscar Cañas Fajardo, advisor of the U.S.O, a Colombian oil labor union, warns about the presence of “marines" and war equipment, just a few kilometers from the Venezuelan border. He accuses Occidental de Colombia Inc., a transnational company, of promoting a labor conflict at all costs, with (...)