2 February 2006 “Addicted to Oil” By Gwynne Dyer “America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world,” said President George W. Bush in his State of the Union speech on Wednesday. And his solution? He’s going to cut US oil imports from the Middle East by 75 percent, […]
19 December 2005 Bolivia: Race and Revolution By Gwynne Dyer Bolivia has had more presidents by far than any other country in South America, mainly because so many of them were overthrown long before their terms ended. They were also all white, even though the majority of Bolivia’s population is “indigenous”, descended wholly or in
21 October 2005 Cuba and Venezuela By Gwynne Dyer “It wouldn’t be outrageous,” said Ana Faya of her suspicion that Cuba and Venezuela might unite one of these days. After all, the senior analyst at the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) in Ottawa pointed out, the idea of uniting Latin American countries has been
8 August 2004 The Nicer Peron: Chavez and Venezuela By Gwynne Dyer It is Hugo Chavez’s own fault that he faces a referendum on his rule next Sunday (15 August), because he wrote the clause about a recall vote into the Venezuelan constitution himself. His enemies, who include practically everybody with money in Venezuela, are