Latin American Historian Greg Grandin on Colombia After Álvaro Uribe
August 22, 2010 by admin
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Colombia and Venezuela are expected to reestablish trade and diplomatic ties after their leaders meet today to defuse a simmering crisis. Colombia’s new president Juan Manuel Santos, who was inaugurated Saturday, will meet Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in Santa Marta, Colombia, the site where South American liberation hero Simón Bolivar died in 1830. In his inaugural address, Santos, who was defense minister under former President Álvaro Uribe, called for “frank and direct” dialogue with Chávez. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez responded by calling for Colombian guerrillas to free all their hostages and give up their armed conflict.
Duration : 0:8:12
Oliver Stone Interview – South of the Border
August 19, 2010 by admin
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Oliver Stone Interview -
Oscar winning director Oliver Stone talks to us at the UK premiere of ‘South of the Border’, his political documentary film about Latin America.
The controversial and acclaimed director talks about the bias in American media against Latin American leaders and speaks out against critics of his documentary. He also talks about following this film with Wall Street 2: Money Never sleeps.
Duration : 0:4:46
PODER Breakfast – Michael Shifter at the talk Latin America: State of the Region
July 30, 2010 by admin
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Latin America, through a series of elections, might undergo significant change in 2010. Some things to think about moving forward are, what are the underlying trends emerging from the ballot boxes that will affect business throughout the continent? Where will things change significantly and where will the status quo be maintained? Michael Shifter and John Price provide expert guidance. Michael Shifter is president of the Inter-American Dialogue. Since 1993, he has been an adjunct professor of Latin American politics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Shifter writes and comments widely on U.S.-Latin American relations and hemispheric affairs. Since 1996, he has regularly testified before Congress about U.S. policy towards Latin America.
Duration : 0:4:58
“Drug Money Is Pouring into Latin America” – Kerry Committee II Day 1-7 (1988)
July 27, 2010 by admin
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February 8, 1988
Charles Bernard “Charlie” Rangel (born June 11, 1930) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1971, representing the Fifteenth Congressional District of New York, and is the most senior member of that state’s congressional delegation. He is a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. In January 2007, Rangel became chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, the first African-American to do so.
Rangel was born in Harlem in New York City and had a somewhat troubled childhood. He earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his service in the United States Army during the Korean War, where he led a group of soldiers out of a deadly Chinese Army encirclement during the Battle of Kunu-ri in 1950. Rangel graduated from New York University in 1957 and St. John’s University School of Law in 1960, then worked as a private lawyer, Assistant U.S. Attorney, and legal counsel during the early-mid 1960s. He served two terms in the New York State Assembly from 1967 to 1970, then defeated longtime incumbent Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. in a primary challenge on his way to being elected to the House of Representatives.
Once there, Rangel rose rapidly in the Democratic ranks, combining solidly liberal views with a pragmatic approach to getting things done. His longtime concerns with battling the importation and effects of illegal drugs led to his becoming chair of the House Select Committee on Narcotics, where he helped define national policy on the issue during the 1980s. As one of Harlem’s “Gang of Four”, he also became a leader in New York city and state politics. He played a significant role in the creation of the 1995 Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation and the national Empowerment Zone Act, which helped change the economic face of Harlem and other inner city areas. Rangel is known both for his genial manner and ability to win over fellow legislators and for his blunt speaking; he has long been outspoken about his views and has been arrested several times as part of political demonstrations. He was an adamant opponent of the George W. Bush administration and of the Iraq War, and put forth proposals to reinstate the draft during the 2000s.
Beginning in 2008, Rangel has faced a series of allegations of ethical violations and failures to follow tax laws. In February 2010, the House Ethics Committee concluded that Rangel had violated House gift rules by accepting payment from corporations for reimbursement for travel to conferences in the Caribbean, and required him to repay those expenses. The Ethics Committee has yet to rule on three more serious investigations, which involve allegations of improperly living in multiple rent-stabilized apartments in New York City while claiming his Washington, D.C. home as his primary residence for tax purposes, of improperly using his office in raising money for a public policy institute in his name at the City College of New York, and of failing to disclose rental income from an apartment in the Dominican Republic. In March 2010, Rangel stepped aside as Ways and Means chair.
Francis Anthony “Frank” Keating (born February 10, 1944) is an American politician from Oklahoma. Keating served as the 25th Governor of Oklahoma. His first term began in 1995 and ended in 1999. Keating won reelection to a second term, which ended in 2003.
As of 2009, Keating is the second Governor in Oklahoma history to hold consecutive terms and the only Republican to accomplish that feat.
Duration : 0:11:0
WORLD HISTORY–How was Latin American society and politics different from North America around 1800?
July 23, 2010 by admin
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A. How was Latin American society and politics different from North America around 1800?
B. What factors or problems were most important in the decline of the Qing dynasty?
C. What were the main trends or developments in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1700′s and 1800′s?
Latin America was ruled by colonial Spain or Portugal in the main,the US was independent and Canada a British colony.
B no idea
C increasing penetration by Europeans, discovery of mineral wealth, increasing desire for slavery and trade and a desire fo colonies, trade and settlement.
A Popular Election.wmv
July 21, 2010 by admin
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A “Snorts & Giggles” project performed by JJC Students in Latin American History class
Duration : 0:5:49
SleptOn.com & Noam Chomsky Pt. 3: Latin America
July 18, 2010 by admin
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SleptOn.com sits down with Professor Noam Chomsky. In this segment we discuss the political and social changes taking place in Latin America that make it the most interesting part of the world, today.
Duration : 0:7:38
AIF2010: Power, Politics, Potential The United States and Latin America
July 15, 2010 by admin
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James Steinberg, Alejandro Toledo, Auturo Sarukhan,John Negroponte Moderator Tom Glelten
Duration : 1:6:36
Political cartoon gets laughs at Latin American leaders
July 12, 2010 by admin
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What happens when you take 12 political leaders, strand them on a desert island, and let it all hang out? That’s been the premise of a hugely popular Internet-based animated series, “Isla Presidencial”, a potent form of political parody from a creative team in Venezuela. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.
Duration : 0:2:3
Can we really stop illegal immigration so long as Latin America is in economic crisis?
July 11, 2010 by admin
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Personally, I don’t think so.
I ask this question as an ex-Christian and a humanist who kind of likes individual immigrants; however, I don’t like either legal immigration or illegal immigration, because of what it does to politics in the USA.
But whether we love or hate immigration, aren’t we going to keep seeing a lot of it, so long as Third World economies & societies are in crisis, giving millions of people an urgent desire to seek a better life in the US?
Also, aren’t we going to keep seeing mass immigration, so long as US employers find it cheaper and easier to hire legal or illegal immigrants, rather than native born employees?
You’re partially right but also partially incorrect.
Emigration from Mexico increased after the passage of NAFTA, because U.S. agricultural subsidies have decreased jobs in Mexico. Mexico’s economy is in bad shape today (in part due to NAFTA, in part to the world economic crisis, in part due to other causes, including the drug war), but not only has immigration to the U.S. slowed, but many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans have chosen to leave the U.S. and return to Mexico in the last year or so.
Immigrants have beeen coming to North America for economic reasons since the day of John Smith in Jamestown, and there is no reason to suspect it will change soon. Crisis or not, Third World and other countries will continue to be a source of immigrants during my lifetime and that of my yet-unborn grandchildren.
Legal possessers of green cards are governed by the same laws as citizens, so there is no advantage for employers to hire them over native-born workers. Undocumented workers cannot legally be hired, so employers often exploit them and pay them less than legal wages. (It’s cheaper but not necessarily easier than hiring legal workers.)
I disagree vehemently against your jingoism, but I agree that neither a wall, nor laws (involving racial profiling or not), nor the strength of the National Guard, nor technology, will keep immigrants (both with and without documents) out of the country.
