Latin America
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CIA Covert Operations: The 1964 Overthrow of Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana
Washington, DC, April 6, 2020 – Cold War concerns about another Communist Cuba in Latin America drove President John F. Kennedy to approve a covert CIA political campaign to rig national elections in British Guiana, then a British colony but soon to be independent, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive. Continue reading
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Coronavirus: Drop the debt
As coronavirus gets a foothold in every country, governments in the global south are facing an appalling choice: pay for emergency healthcare, or pay off international debts. Continue reading
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Switzerland at the Heart of a Far-Reaching Surveillance Network Facilitating the U.S.-Backed Operation Condor
The atrocities of Operation Condor – the U.S.-backed covert plan by Argentina, Chile, Brazil Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia to eliminate left-wing influence in Latin America – have been gradually revealed through declassified documents that detail the diplomatic manoeuvring and state terror that left tens of thousands of people killed, tortured and disappeared. Argentina is estimated… Continue reading
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I Am Tired of Holding Other Worlds in My Fist: The Seventh Newsletter (2020)
13 February 2020 — Tri-Continental Raúl Martínez, Rosas y Estrellas (Roses and Stars), 1972. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In November 2019, the Bolivian army – with a nudge from the shadows – told its President Evo Morales Ayma to resign. Morales would eventually go to Mexico and Continue reading
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Those Who Search for Dawn Don’t Fear the Night; Nor the Hand that Holds the Dagger: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2019)
19 December 2019 — Tri-Continental Those Who Search for Dawn Don’t Fear the Night; Nor the Hand that Holds the Dagger: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2019). Dear Friends, Greetings from the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Continue reading
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Pink Tide Against US Domination Rising Again In Latin America
Once again, the left is rising in Latin America as people revolt against authoritarian regimes, many of whom were put in place by US-supported coups. These regimes have taken International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and are under the thumb of international finance, which is against the interests of people. Continue reading
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Whitewashing Neoliberal Repression in Chile and Ecuador
Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, people are rising up against right-wing, US-backed governments and their neoliberal austerity policies. Continue reading
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Burn, Neoliberalism, Burn By Pepe Escobar
Neoliberalism is – literally – burning. And from Ecuador to Chile, South America, once again, is showing the way. Against the vicious, one-size-fits-all IMF austerity prescription, which deploys weapons of mass economic destruction to smash national sovereignty and foster social inequality, South America finally seems poised to reclaim the power to forge its own history. Continue reading
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Ecuador News Links 6 October 2019
6 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back State of emergency declared in Ecuador amid mass protests https://williambowles.info/2019/10/06/state-of-emergency-declared-in-ecuador-amid-mass-protests/ Network in Defense of Humanity Alert to the International Community on the State of Emergency in Ecuador https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/10/05/network-in-defense-of-humanity-alert-to-the-international-community-on-the-state-of-emergency-in-ecuador/ Continue reading
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Defending Venezuela Is Defending Our America By Nino Pagliccia
The Sao Paulo Forum (SPF) that took place in Caracas just ended on July 28 fittingly within the framework of remembering the 65th anniversary of the birth of Hugo Chavez with a display of affection and respect for the late Comandante with fireworks and all. By all accounts the SPF has been a politically successful event… Continue reading
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Max Blumenthal drops by the largest US military base in Latin America
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal rolled up on the Soto Cano / Palmerola air base in Honduras, the US military’s largest in Latin America. It plays a key role in Washington’s military strategy for Central America, and was a major factor behind the 2009 coup. Continue reading
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A Conversation with Evo Morales
Bolivian President Evo Morales will travel to Russia on an official visit on July 11. The Eurasian country is an important strategic partner for Bolivians, Morales told Sputnik in an interview. The president also revealed what he thinks of Donald Trump, how to solve the Venezuelan crisis and how he envisions Bolivia over the next… Continue reading
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‘The coup turned Honduras into hell’: Interview with President Manuel Zelaya on 10th anniversary of overthrow by US
The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil sat down for an exclusive interview with Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, on the 10th anniversary of the US-backed right-wing military coup that overthrew him. Continue reading
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Dossier 17: Venezuela and Hybrid Wars in Latin America:
Dossier no. 17 reflects on the hybrid war unleashed against Venezuela. We document the repertoire of tactics, but also the motives behind them. We are interested not only in the recent attack on Venezuela, but in the similarities between this attack and others in Latin America over the past decades. This general onslaught in Latin… Continue reading
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Rafael Correa: “We All Have to Be Prepared for Treason”
This interview with former President Rafael Correa is the first step in a more ambitious project that we have proposed in Misión Verdad: to go to the vanguard of Latin American political leaders and invite them to reflect on the future rather than on the current situation. Correa accepted our invitation and summoned us to… Continue reading
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United States and Venezuela: A Historical Background
US hostility and efforts to overthrow the Venezuelan government forms parts of a long and inglorious history of US intervention in Latin America going back to the second decade of the 19th century. Continue reading
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US imperialism resurrects the Monroe Doctrine
“Today, we proudly proclaim for all to hear: the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well,” US national security advisor John Bolton declared last week in Florida. Continue reading
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The Latin American left’s setbacks: what does it all mean?
Freeman: The progressive Latin American governments of the twenty-first century, the so-called Pink Tide governments, have over the recent past received heavy blows and have been replaced by conservative and right-wing governments in Brazil, Argentina and evidently Ecuador. What are people on the right saying about these setbacks for the left? Continue reading
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New book: “Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change”
The first decade of the new millennium opened, and threatened to close, with an involution in the system of global capitalist production—a multiple crisis of global proportions in the first instance and a region-wide crisis in Latin America in the second. Continue reading
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Russia Warns Bolton: ‘Monroe Doctrine’ Remarks Are Insulting to Latin America By Andre Vltchek
What is the ‘Monroe Doctrine’? In brief, it is a document which defines the entire Western Hemisphere as a ‘backyard’ of the United States. It ‘philosophically’ justifies Washington’s neo-colonialism, and the most barbaric coups it has been triggering, as well as covered and open interventions in the Caribbean, and in Central and South America. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 