Atilio Boron
Atilio Boron
Atilio Boron is Director of the Latin American Programme of Distance Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a collaborator of TNI's New Politics project. He is also ex-Secretary General of CLACSO – an academic umbrella body for Latin America.
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Spain: The 'Indignant’ and the Paris Commune
June 2011
One hundred and forty years after the Paris Commune similar demands for democratic change resonate strongly in Spain. Recent mass mobilisations show the Spanish people have had enough of politics that serve only the interests of a few, while public interests are subordinated to the profit imperatives of big business.
Betting on the Gatopardo strategy
February 2011
The problem facing Obama is that of constructing “Mubarakism” without Mubarak, that is, to guarantee the continuity of the pro-American autocracy through an acceptable replacement recruited from the ranks of the regime.
For a solidarity `Marshall Plan' with the Cuban Revolution!
January 2011
Creating a special fund of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution would be an act of strict justice.
The USA: Scarecrows on the March
November 2010
The U.S. public has accepted as valid and reasonable, affirmations that would have provoked incredulity or hilarity among the most backward and superstitious people in medieval Europe. The clear indication of moral and political decay eating into American Rome.
A note about the failed coup in Ecuador
October 2010
The coup in Ecuador failed because of an effective social mobilization, an overwhelming international solidarity and the courage demonstrated by President Correa.
Colombia’s Uribe takes dictation one last time
August 2010
The White House asked him for one last “proof of love” to support US Latin America policy. What will be next? Worries about his personal future?
Why are Marines Disembarking in Costa Rica?
July 2010
The recent decision in Costa Rica to allow a massive build-up of US military presence has less to do with drug trafficking than US imperial strategy.
Dissidents or traitors?
March 2010
When the “free press” condemns the imprisonment of dissidents in Cuba, they fail to mention that similar attempts to overthrow countries with foreign help would also face imprisonment in most countries worldwide.
Obama, an “F” in political theory
December 2009
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech was not much different from the ideological tone set by Bush Jr. and his cronies.
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