Venezuela
The pitfalls of protectionism shown by Brazil and Mexico
IPN Opinion article
Brazil and Mexico are in danger of going down the path blazed by Venezuela: after years of opening up trade and improving their economies they are reintroducing protectionism in oil and gas. This energy analyst describes how the real patriotic move would be to stimulate exploitation - and therefore employment and the economy - by welcoming foreign firms instead of coddling state-run and domestic firms.
Civil Society Groups Warn: Trafalgar Square Concert Gives Implicit Support to Authoritarian Regimes
IPN 
Press release
Not working for the Yankee dollar
IPN Opinion article
The sweeping victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia's recent presidential election marks another step back in Latin America from slow liberalization and free trade toward socialism and anti-Americanism: a few U.S. corporations may suffer a little but the real victims, as ever, will be the poor.
