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Chevron Plaintiff Lawyer’s Least Favorite Writer

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 09/18/2009

In Forbes yesterday, New York lawyer Steven Donziger, consultant attorney for Ecuadorian plaintiffs in the suit against Chevron, criticizes my article,…

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David, Goliath and Chevron

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  • 05/05/2009

How is little Ecuador going to collect from big Chevron? In 2007, investigative reporter Greg Palast posed the question to Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa regarding…

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Americas Summit: Two Views

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 04/21/2009

Abajo! (“Down!”) was the response given by the friendly, bronzed-skinned middle-aged Cuban man who chatted with my husband and me over Cuban coffee on Calle…

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Tech is Key in Ideas Battle

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  • 04/16/2009

Earlier today, Competitive Enterprise Institute President Fred Smith delivered an informative but lively, entertaining speech about the role of NGOs.  The speech was delivered at…

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Ironic Snowfall for Resource-Rich Greenies

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 03/02/2009

Environmentalists characterize themselves as petite Davids battling gargantuan corporate Goliaths in order to grab media attention.  But hundreds of green activists demonstrated today to raise…

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Nobody Messes with The Dow

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  • 02/25/2009

Last night a charismatic President Obama delivered a forceful speech to a joint session of Congress, promising that his plan “will rebuild, will recover, and…

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Gold is King Among Investors

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 02/20/2009

Gold prices are skyrocketing—recently closing at over $1,000 an ounce, the highest in almost a year—while inflation fears continue rising and the dollar weakens.  This…

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Inflation Fears Propel Gold Prices

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 02/19/2009

As the Dow Jones Industrial Average approached record lows, gold prices shined on a seven-month peak, on Tuesday.  Details of President Obama’s new stimulus package…

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Flawed Plan Relies on Consumer Spending

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 02/17/2009

After President Obama signs the controversial stimulus plan, which will add on average $8 per week to most paychecks, his administration will have to cross…

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Ecuador’s Mining Law and the 70% WFT

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  • 01/09/2009

Ecuador, the only Latin American country that lacks large-scale mining operations, is passing a new mining law that will lift a six-month ban on mining…

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Gold Is Not the Enemy – Poverty Is

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 12/31/2008

National Geographic magazine has published an article titled The Price of Gold focusing on the high price of gold and the…

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Banana Entrepreneurs Should Follow the Cocoa Initiative

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  • 11/07/2008

Last Wednesday, The New York Times ran an appealing story on the rise of an Ecuadorian Quichua community from…

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Oil Prices Plunge Hits Ecuador

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 11/04/2008

Today's Washington Times features an article on Ecuador “Economic Crisis Starts to Show up in Ecuador”, in which author John Zarocostas…

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Latin America Should be on Washington’s Agenda

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 10/09/2008

Yesterday, Nelson Cunningham, one of the panelists at a Hudson Institute conference on Latin America's “Radical Populism Challenge” commented that it is better that the…

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