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Latin American Leaders Should Stand Up for People, Not Corporate Profits
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The People’s Summit for Democracy Offers a Progressive Vision
By: Sheila Xiao
For the Americas, which are on the cusp of transformative times, the age of the Monroe Doctrine is over
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How Latin American women are winning the battle for abortion rights
By: Diana Cariboni
Argentina, Colombia and Mexico have recently legalised or decriminalised abortion. Could Chile be next?
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The Impact of Green New Deals on Latin America
By: John Feffer
A new wave of extractivism from the Global South is the hidden side of the energy transitions in the North
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Is Latin America shifting to the Left again?
By: Manuella Libardi
After the Left’s success in Chile, Honduras and Peru last year, will Brazil and Colombia follow suit in 2022?
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Building a Post-Extractivist Future for Latin America
By: John Feffer
The region faces a choice between top-down "Green growth" and bottom-up efforts to transform economies
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Lack of Left-Wing Culture, Weakness of Progressivism in Latin America
When are we going to be able to disarm the neoliberal cultural framework? When we have an attractive, alternative, left-wing pop culture, with new axes for organizing daily life.
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2021 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again
By: Roger Harris
Overall, the pink tide is again rising with some 14 countries on the left side of the ledger and the revolt against neoliberalism intensifying from Haiti to Paraguay
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Massive Turnout in Favor of Leftists in Honduras Repudiates US-Backed Coup
Thousands of jubilant voters have been flooding the streets of cities across Honduras to celebrate the apparent electoral victory of leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro
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Maduro Off the Ropes and Straight to Mexico
By: Ociel Alí López
Tthe importance of Maduro’s presence at the CELAC Summit in Mexico
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The International Community Must be on Alert to Defend Peru
By: Nino Pagliccia
We have sound and clear signals from Latin America that its people want progressive anti-imperialist governments that promote real democracy
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A Second Pink Tide in Latin America?
By: René Rojas
With the left’s recent electoral successes in Peru and Bolivia, and previously in Mexico and Argentina, does this mean that there is a second so-called “Pink Tide” in Latin America?
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Bolsonaro Is Spreading Trump-Like Fear of “Election Fraud” in Brazil
By: Noam Chomsky
Interview on what brought Bolsonaro to power, dissects his policies and compares them to the Trump regime, and assesses what the future may hold for the troubled nation
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US Concern for Cuba, Latin America Is Spin For Intervention
By: Tamara Pearson
Any help or aid from the US always comes with conditions and ulterior motives
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Excessive Corporate Power is a Root Cause of Migration
Under U.S. trade agreements, corporations are suing developing country governments for sums that far outstrip the value of humanitarian aid
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Pedro Castillo’s Humble Roots Inspire Perú’s Masses
By: Kayla Popuchet
Could Upend U.S.-Perú Relations
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The coup that is taking place in Peru
While by all accounts, Pedro Castillo won the second round presidential elections, his adversary has refused to concede
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The Root Cause of Central American Migration Is US Imperialism
It would be nice if the US government acknowledged that its imperialist meddling in Central America drove millions to flee to the United States
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Socialist Teacher Takes Lead in Peruvian Election
By: Carlos León Moya
Nation Reels from Pandemic & Political Crisis
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Rural Teacher Pedro Castillo Poised to Write a New Chapter in Peru’s History
By: Medea Benjamin
Castillo, the son of illiterate peasants, overcame vicious media attacks and is on the verge of defeating Keiko Fujimori, the scion of a Peruvian political dynasty
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By: Don Fitz
Hatuey led the first guerrilla warfare against European invasion of the western hemisphere
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Witnessing the Hell That a Migrant Can Face
By: Vijay Prashad
At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen
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Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
By: Ramzy Baroud
The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-U.S. border cannot be understood separately from El Salvador’s painful past
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Our Vanishing World: Rainforests
In essence, you have a choice: understand and act on the crucial importance of rainforests before we destroy their integrity and lose them completely. Or help to accelerate the human rush to extinction as a consequence of failing to do so
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Caravan: Workers Who Want to Work
By: Kathleen Foster
In the tradition of the Underground Railroad, anti-racist solidarity is propelling many to take action to free the refugees
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Prison gave me a greater will to fight
By: Luiz ignacio lula Da silva
Interview on the reality that Brazil is experiencing and the social protests that have occurred in several Latin American countries
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Building Sustainable Economies
By: Noam Chomsky
Interview on the politics in Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela and across Latin America
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Why has Venezuela’s Supreme Court Assumed Legislative Power?
By: Rachel Boothroyd
Discussion on the Venezuelan TSJ’s move to assume the legislative power of the AN
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The Most Honest Politician in Latin America Will Be Removed By the Most Corrupt
By: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Brazil's Supreme Court is able to intervene on procedural grounds in Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, not on the merits of the case
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Latin America’s “Made in the USA”
By: Jack Rasmus
Jack Rasmus explains how the emerging recessions in Latin American economies are the direct consequence of recent shifting of US economic policies over the past year
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By: Gregory Wilpert
Greg Wilpert is director of teleSUR English, a newly launched multimedia website that is sponsored by teleSUR, the Latin American TV channel that is funded by the left governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba
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ESMA: Survivors of torture in Argentina await trial
By: Marie Trigona
In Argentina, the President and a council of judges postponed...
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Monsanto soy chemicals could pose health risk
By: Marie Trigona
Monsanto soy chemicals could pose health risk
Blogs
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Consciousness Pilots Our Evolution!
By: Antonio Carty
I was drawn in my spare time over last couple...
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“Kumbaya” and Bullets: The Few Winners and Many Losers with the US-Colombia Free-Trade Agreement
By: Kevin Young
Originally signed five years ago, the US-Colombia “free-trade” agreement, or...
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Latin American Opinion and US Policy
By: Kevin Young
The Chilean polling firm Latinobarómetro has just released its annual...
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Bolivia Dilemmas: Turmoil, Transformation, and Solidarity
By: Kevin Young
Bolivia has erupted in conflict over the government’s controversial plans...
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Economias Emergentes y Apreciación del Tipo de Cambio
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ECONOMÍAS EMERGENTES Y APRECIACIÓN DEL TIPO DE CAMBIO. ENFOQUE...
Books
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Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America
In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles...
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Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces
"Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes...
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A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency
"Conant has an ear for story, poetry, and wonder; his...
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Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
From Publishers Weekly: The acclaimed Uruguayan writer Galeano offers another...