The Full Montezuma: Around Central America and the Caribbean with the Girl Next DoorBy Peter MooreBantam Books 2000
Reviewed by Jackie Coleman
Australian travel writer, Peter Moore's The Full Montezuma, is an account of a six-month overland trip
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On December 29, Argentinian president Fernando de la Rua signed a decree reducing the sentences the "La Tablada" political prisoners after a 116-day hunger strike. In commuting the sentences of most prisoners, the government
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In shanty towns outside Buenos Aires, the French-Argentine water company Aguas Argentinas has "encouraged" communities to voluntarily dig ditches and lay pipes to connect their homes to the water mains. Privatised water companies
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The US$7.5 billion Plan Colombia, designed by the US State Department as an anti-drug plan, is beginning to show its true purpose. Of the US$7.5 billion, US$1.3 billion has come from the US, mostly as military
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Charlie's Angels Jo Ellis' indignation at Alison Dellit's review of Charlie's Angels (GLW #437) seemed to be more directed at the notion that anyone could dare criticise the ideological content of "popular culture" be it a film, book, CD, or TV
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Avoiding Pauline Hanson these days is an impossible task. Her face looms from the mainstream papers every day and then pops up again on the TV news at night. Her image is more prevelant than any other politician in the corporate
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On January 29, Chilean investigative judge Juan Guzman Tapia announced the indictment of former dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte on 57 counts of homicide and 18 of kidnapping, as co-conspirator in the October 1973 Caravan of Death, in which 74
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On July 2, Vicente Fox Quesada of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) was elected president of Mexico putting an end to 71 years of continuous rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Though the rule
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At 2pm on February 7, Ecuadoran indigenous leaders signed a 23-point accord with President Gustavo Noboa Bejarano, ending an indigenous uprising against economic policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The uprising started on
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Networker: Crisis free production? Can the new economy escape the problem of the old capitalist economy, the boom-and-bust cycle? (New economy is a term applied to a range of corporations and activities with some connection to new
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2001 has been declared as the year of international solidarity against the 41-year US economic, financial and trade blockade, the Cuban Adjustment Act and all the supporting laws and regulations designed to isolate Cuba
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Just before Christmas, most newspaper columnists were writing off Labor's chances in the next federal election. It had no alternative policies, it was crippled by electoral rorting allegations and it had not a hope. Now, after
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Labor's 'promises' are rather slippery, to say the least — pinning down exactly what it will do is a bit like trying to nail jelly to a wall. Dairy deregulation: Labor will not re-regulate the industry. A Beazley government would review the Dairy
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Public servants are prime targets for the federal government. In the last decade 110,000 public sector jobs have been lost through cuts to funding, restructuring and the outsourcing and privatisation of government services
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. That's Why I'm Working — Examines child
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SYDNEY On February 19, the International Women's Day Collective debated, for the third time in as many weeks, the question of whether men should be encouraged to participate in the IWD rally and march on March 10. The
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CISLAC has launched an appeal for funds to help El Salvador recover from the damage and ongoing aftermath of three earthquakes and numerous aftershocks which have hit El Salvador. In a period of one month El Salvador has
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It can be hard to be a feminist in the 21st century. We face the myth that women are liberated and that we no longer need to fight. We are often asked questions like, "Why do you bother? Women were liberated in the '60s when they all burnt their bras
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Over the last decade, neoliberal regimes compliant to the needs of Washington have been established in almost all the countries of Latin America with exception of Cuba. However, the election of left-populist Hugo Chavez in
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BY SEAN HEALY The word is out. The Australian left is on a roll. Fresh from the inspiration of S11, when tens of thousands confronted the world's power brokers at Melbourne's Crown Casino, and with plans well underway for mass
News
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WOLLONGONG — Three hundred people sat in on Wollongong City Council's February 19 meeting and watched in anger as council approved the first stage of a 428-lot residential development at Sandon Point in Thirroul. The council
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Or a new system "When you try all the tools in your toolbox and they don't work, then you have to try a new tool." — US Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill on attempts to revive the Japanese economy. He didn't suggest what the "'new tool" might be.
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BY ZANNY BEGG & VIV MILEY SYDNEY — When the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade winds its way up Oxford Street on March 3, there will be more than one meaning to the word "glam". The newly-formed Gays and Lesbians Against Multinationals will also
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BY MARCUS PABIAN& TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — About 300 people packed the Trades Hall auditorium on February 20 to oppose the federal government's policy of imprisoning refugees. The meeting, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, demanded that
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Australia's aid contribution to poor countries is among the most miserly of any industrialised nation, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD report, released on February
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Beverley uranium mine openedThe uranium mine at Beverley in northern South Australia was formally opened on February 21. It is Australia's first new uranium mine since Western Mining Corporation's Olympic Dam opened 12
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Support for the May 1 blockades of stock exchanges and financial districts continues to grow, including amongst trade unions. Progress is most advanced in Victoria where a number of militant unions are growing increasingly keen on
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SYDNEY — Early on the morning of February 19, 100 students and unionists joined together for a symbolic blockade of the "Designing, launching and managing a corporate university" conference at a luxury hotel in the exclusive
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BRISBANE — Panic is sweeping the Liberal-National Coalition around the country after the crushing ALP victory in the February 17 Queensland state elections. As Green Left Weekly goes to print, the Labor Party has won 66 out of a
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ADELAIDE — Nurses employed in the state's public hospitals imposed work bans from February 22 in support of claims for a 15% pay rise over three years, after rejecting state government offers of increases which the union
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BY PIP HINMAN& SIBYLLE KACZOREK SYDNEY — An effigy of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, complete with "letters" from oil companies Petroz and Santos protruding from its suit pockets, drew curious students to an action on Sydney
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Colombia film launched SYDNEY — Around 70 people packed the Chippendale Resistance Centre for the premiere of the documentary Colombia — Peace at What Price? here on February 22. The film was presented by the Committee in Solidarity with
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Adelaide: M1 action. Notice to be served on all businesses in Adelaide Stock Exchange. Thurs March 1, noon. Meet at trading board, Santos bldg, Currie St. Ph 8231 6982. M1 Adelaide meeting. Every Thurs, 6.30pm. Canon Poole Rm, 5th flr, Adelaide
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PARRAMATTA — After staging the first International Women's Day march and rally in Parramatta for 30 years in 2000, feminists in Sydney's western suburbs are organising an even bigger IWD action on March 8 with the theme, "Women
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It was entirely predictable that Pauline Hanson's One Nation would try to jump on the "anti-globalisation" bandwagon. After all, that's what right-wing populists do — jump on bandwagons — and there's no issue more popular at present than hatred
World
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Contrary to the impression created by the international news media, Ariel Sharon did not win the February 6 Israeli prime ministerial election by a landslide. In fact, he won just 37% of the eligible vote — the lowest of any of his
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There has been such a big wave of domestic and cross-border corporate mergers and takeovers in the last few years that some commentators have started comparing their importance with the merger wave that took place in the US around the
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The bombardment of Baghdad by US and British warplanes on February 16 proves that "George W. Bush's administration is maintaining the US government's bloody policy against the Iraqi masses", a statement issued by the politburo of the Worker Communist
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BY PATRICK BOND JOHANNESBURG If you had a choice, which city would you choose to host the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development also known as Rio+10 in which 60,000 delegates will jaw-jaw about the world's social and
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International money traders have subjected the Turkish lira to sustained attack, forcing it to plunge 28% against the US dollar on February 22, sparking fears of a deep economic crisis in the country. The lira's collapse was the
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Che Guevara? He's that pop star, isn't he? All right, so not many people would really confuse Ernesto "Che" Guevara for a pop star, but there are lots of people who don't know more about him than his iconic image, which nowadays
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MEXICO CITY — The leaders of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), headed by Subcomandante Marcos, are to emerge from Chiapas, the southernmost Mexican state where they led their famous 1994 uprising of the region's
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Human rights advocates are outraged by new legislation redefining the concept "terrorism", allowing for the banning of organisations considered terrorist and reversing the burden of proof, which was passed by the British
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The February 16 bombing of Baghdad by US and British warplanes was a calculated signal by US President George W. Bush's regime that it will continue - and escalate - the genocidal war against the Iraqi people begun by the US
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SEOUL — A detachment of 4200 riot cops stormed Daewoo Motors' Bu-pyung plant on February 20, ending an occupation by about 500 striking workers and their families. The Bu-pyong workers began their strike on February 16, in
Culture
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ChocolatWith Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp and Lena OlinDirected by Lasse HolstromPalace Cinemas, Sydney, other states to follow REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM I saw Chocolat on Valentine's Day. So too, it seemed, did a good
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON The Hidden WordsworthBy Kenneth R. Johnston Pimlico, 2000690 pp, $35.15 (pb) "I am of that odious class of men called democrats". Could the person who uttered this statement and who supported the Great French Revolution
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Imagine: a Socialist Vision for the 21st Century By Tommy Sheridan and Allan McCombes Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2001 $21 Available in March from Resistance bookshops (see page 2) Visit <http://www.dsp.org.au/rb/rb.htm>.