2007 - Nicolai Sarkozy elected, returning France to NATO command and pledging warm relationship with US; Kosovo declares independence; transition in Russia from Putin to Medvedev;
2008 - Georgia invades South Ossetia in August while Putin at Beijing Olympics; Moldova's Communist government narrowly defeated in the first twitter revolution.
2009 - Angela Merkel's CDU re-elected in Germany with socialist Die Linke now rivalling a weakened SDP; British judge issues arrest warrant for Israeli ex-PM Tzipi Livni, forcing her to cancel her trip to London.
Timeline 2000-2010: Latin America
2000 - Pinochet's arrest in 1998 in the UK finally ends when he is sent back to Chile without trial, on medical grounds. The arrest warrant by a Spanish judge infuriated Western governments which vow to change legislation to prevent this happening again. This process differs from the official Western mechanism to persecute leaders opposed to the empire's agenda, such as Milosevic (see Europe timeline above) and Al-Bashir (see Africa timeline below), and prompted Livni and other Israelis, as well as Donald Rumsfeld to cancel travel plans (see Europe timeline above).
2001 - Argentina's president Ferdinand de Rua resigns as Argentine economy collapses in a "Back to the Future" moment (see 2008 US).
2003 - President Lula da Silva launches land reform in Brazil; anti-Chavez general strike broken in Venezuela leading to nationalisation of the entire petrochemical industry; Peru's Shining Path Maoists resurface (see 2008 Asia).
2004 - US/Canadian military plot the overthrow of Haiti's president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and spirit him into exile; Venezuela and Cuba found the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA) between Caribbean and Latin American countries fueled by Venezuelan oil revenues; Brazil emerges as world power, leading to the BRIC alliance with Russia, India and China.
2005 - Bolivia elects socialist Evo Morales; Ecuador elects socialist Raphael Correa who ushered in a new constitution in 2008, the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature.
2008 - Paraguay elects socialist ex-priest Fernando Lugo as president.
2009 - US sponsors (and denies involvement in) coup deposing pro-ALBA Honduran president Manuel Zelaya; ALBA countries stop using US dollar in their trade; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets Obama at the 5th Summit of the Americas and gives him Eduardo Galeano's The Open Veins of Latin America. Obama later tells White House press correspondents, "Just because he handed me Peter Pan, that doesn't mean I'm going to read it, but it's good diplomatic practice to just accept these gifts."
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