Recent Latin America

• Pagliccia: The International Community Must be on Alert to Defend Peru

  We have sound and clear signals from Latin America that its people want progressive anti-imperialist governments that promote real democracy
• Rosas: The political battle for Peru

  Leftist Pedro Castillo has promised change in Peru but Keiko Fujimori remains a political force in a hostile Congress
• Pagliccia: The Death of the “Lima Group”

  And Re-birth of the Latin American Anti-imperialist Left
• de Echave: The Future of the Left in Peru

  The 2021 vice presidential candidate for Juntos por el Perú (Together for Peru) discusses what we can expect from the Castillo government and possible alliances with other sectors of the Left
• Rojas: A Second Pink Tide in Latin America?

  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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  Chomsky: Migration Is Not the Crisis

  What Washington Could Really Do in Central America
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  Chomsky: Bolsonaro Is Spreading Trump-Like Fear of “Election Fraud” in Brazil

  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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  Pearson: US Concern for Cuba, Latin America Is Spin For Intervention

  Any help or aid from the US always comes with conditions and ulterior motives
• Llerena Robles: There’s a Dirty Tricks Campaign in Peru to Deny Left’s Presidential Victory

  The campaign to overturn Peru’s presidential election results is one of “unconventional warfare.”
• Aquino: Another pink tide?

  Latin America's left galvanized by rising star in Peru
• Perez Rocha: 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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  Weisbrot: ‘Stop the Steal’ Campaign by Losing Candidate in Peru Must End

  Ripping a page from Donald Trump, the right spreads baseless conspiracy theories in an attempt to overturn the democratic will of the people
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  Carlsen: The Trial for Berta Caceres’s Murder Will Test Biden’s Central America Policy

  The Biden administration says it wants to counter the corruption that’s driving displacement. Does that apply to U.S. allies in Honduras?
• Collyns: Peru: Fujimori cries electoral fraud

  And unleashes torrent of racism
• Llerena: Coup Fears Grow as Fujimori Falsely Claims Fraud

  Fears are growing in Peru that supporters of right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, will stage a coup to prevent her rival, the socialist teacher and union leader Pedro Castillo, from taking power
• Koenig: Peru at the Brink of Civil War?

  The Uprising of the Dispossessed
• Popuchet: Pedro Castillo’s Humble Roots Inspire Perú’s Masses

  Could Upend U.S.-Perú Relations
• Llerena: 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
• Villeda: 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
• Barzola: Castillo elected president of Peru

  Socialist teacher defeats daughter of fascist dictator
• Moya: Socialist Teacher Takes Lead in Peruvian Election

  Nation Reels from Pandemic & Political Crisis
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  Benjamin: Rural Teacher Pedro Castillo Poised to Write a New Chapter in Peru’s History

  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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  Zibechi: State, power and society in Latin America

  From state violence and neoliberal extractivism to Colombia’s general strike and Zapatismo
• Vine: 175 Years of Border Invasions

  The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration
• Bustos: Climate Change Is a Driving Force in Central American Migration

  We look at the link between migration and the climate emergency, which studies have estimated could displace over 200 million people by 2050