Latin America
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Meet the DC think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans
These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers. Continue reading
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The US Retreats While Attempting to Increase Its Grip on its “Backyard”
Why is the US bullying Panama, Canada and Mexico so outrageously? It’s an attempt by the new administration to reinstate its dominance over the American Hemisphere; ousting Chinese influence under a reinforced Monroe Doctrine (the statement of US dominance in the hemisphere in the 1800s). As it retreats from Europe and cuts other parts of… Continue reading
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The Weakness of Progressive Latin American Governments in These Precarious Times
Unwilling to accept election results in Venezuela, the OAS, led by the US, passed a resolution essentially asking the country to violate its own election laws. Many countries with supposedly centre-left or left governments have joined the US in proposals that seek to undermine Venezuelan democratic processes, a reflection of the contradictions confronting the current… Continue reading
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A Wave of Criminal Rebellions in Latin America: Is It Just a Coincidence?
Crime, violence and drug trafficking are nothing new to any Latin American – with the honorable exception of Cubans. But in recent months there has been a very strange sequence of events, not so much because of the events themselves, but because of the national and international political situation in which they are inserted. Continue reading
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Latin Americans Reject Resource Plundering by Same NATO Countries Fueling Military Conflict in Ukraine
[The following is a slightly expanded version of a talk given by Camila Escalante to an online forum of the International Manifesto Group on August 7, 2022. The topic of the forum was ‘The conflict over Ukraine: Where should the left stand?.–Editors] Continue reading
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The Sword of Bolivar Is Wielded Again by the People of Latin America
On August 7, 2022, Gustavo Petro and his running mate, Francia Márquez, were inaugurated as the President and Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia. This was one of the most historic events in Latin America for at least a century. Continue reading
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NATO’s Banana Blockade
The world is at a critical inflection point as it pits the children of Ecuador, Paraguay, Russia, China, Vietnam, Gaza, the Philippines and Syria against Del Monte, Hunter Biden and Liz Truss in a fight to the death with only one winner. Continue reading
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Extortions against Russia hit Latin America
The enormous pressures exerted by the United States on Latin American nations to join the Russophobic policy it has imposed on the planet by controlling the main media outlets may exacerbate these problems. One of the most affected is Ecuador, because if in 2021, 20% of the bananas it exported were destined for Russia (some… Continue reading
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How China’s 1942 Yan’an Forum Inspired the Culture of National Liberation in the Third World
On 2 May 1942, hundreds of China’s top writers, artists, and communist leaders gathered to discuss the most urgent cultural questions of the time. Dossier no. 52, Go to Yan’an! Culture and National Liberation, explores the history and enduring legacy of the three-week forum as well as the text that Mao Zedong published the following year… Continue reading
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Watch: Meet the Neo-Nazi Advising Colombian Police on How to Break the National Strike
Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen examines the ongoing national strike in Colombia and how President Duque is relying on a neo-fascist ideology to subdue it. Continue reading
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Birds of a Fascist Feather: Why Israel Is Aiding Colombia’s Crackdown on Protesters
BOGATA — For exactly one month now, a nationwide strike has crippled Colombia and has been met with deadly repression by the far-right government of Ivan Duque. As trade unions have shut down major cities, halting mass transit and bringing economic gridlock to the country, government forces have responded with violence. According to government figures,… Continue reading
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Southern Command Goes to War
Last week, the head of the Pentagon’s Southern Command, Admiral Craig Faller, concluded his farewell tour in the Dominican Republic, participating in the Caribbean Nations Security Conference (CANSEC) together with military leaders from countries committed to Washington’s objectives of isolating Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and at the same time hindering and/or restricting the cooperation links… Continue reading
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Black Alliance for Peace: Fascism Was Born in the Colonies, Not Europe
Ajamu Baraka, the former Green Party vice presidential candidate and current national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace – a member of the Black is Back Coalition — says Europe must be “de-centered” from discussions of fascism. African people need to “reject the assumption that fascism was something new and unique to Europe in… Continue reading
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GMO Soy, Popular Resistance, and Corporate Power
Why does GMO soy dominate Argentine agriculture? ‘Seeds of Power’ exposes the forces that have overwhelmed voices of resistance. Continue reading
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From the Murder of Berta Cáceres to Dam Disaster in Uttarakhand
March 2, 2021 was the five year anniversary of the murder of Berta Cáceres, who opposed the Agua Zarca dam in Honduras. That date was less than one month after the deaths of dozens of people from Tehri Dam disaster in Uttarakhand, India. The two stories together tell us far more about consequences of the… Continue reading
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ALBA-TCP Denounces the War Policies of Western Countries: Declaration of the Political Council
The 21st meeting of the Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP) got off to a strong start in the region on March 1, with the participation of foreign ministers representing the member countries, accompanied by the Executive Secretary of that multilateral body, Sacha Llorenti,… Continue reading
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The Commune is a Historical Imperative: A Conversation with José ‘Yoda’ Solórzano
José Solórzano’s lean, two-meter-tall frame makes him a surprising person to be known as “Yoda.” He is one of the key militants of the Chavista collective La Minka, which is part of the continent-wide multi-disciplinary organization Comunidades Al Mando/Proyecto Nuestra América [Communities in Charge/Latin America Initiative]. Focusing on cultural and productive projects, Comunidades Al Mando… Continue reading
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Che Guevara and the CIA in the Mountains of Bolivia
Declassified Records Describe Intense U.S. Tracking of Guevara’s Movements, Initial Doubts about His Death, and Hopes that His Violent Demise Would Discourage Revolutionaries in Latin America Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: How Corporate Tyranny Works
The persecution of the attorney Steven Donziger is a grim illustration of what happens when we confront the real centers of power, masked and unacknowledged by the divisive cant from the Trump White House or the sentimental drivel of the Democratic Party. Those, like Donziger, who name and fight the corporate control of our society… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 