Recent Latin America
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Fuentes: Latin America’s left is in retreat, but it’s not finished yet
The left needs to develop serious and concrete alternatives to capitalism, both in terms of economic strategies and the kind of participatory democracy we want to see
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Weiss: Central American Refugees Struggle for Protection in Southern Mexico
The misguided, insufficient responses by both the U.S. and Mexican governments constitute human rights abuses
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Fernandez: Honduras and Israel: A New Special Relationship
Just as it serviced murderous regimes in Central America in the 1980s, Israel will now be exporting forms of repression to Honduras' abusive government
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García linera: The ebbing Latin American tide
Extracts of Vice President Garcia Linera's address at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires
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Sankey: What Happened to the Pink Tide?
Latin America’s “pink tide” governments challenge neoliberalism and US hegemony, but leave the basic structures of capitalism intact
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Yepe: The Southern Giant Will Have to Fight
The first three governments of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) –two with Lula and one with Dilma Rousseff– represent the best in the republican history of the South American giant
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Wallerstein: Behind Brazil’s Crisis
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has been suspended from her office while she goes on trial by the Senate. If convicted, she would be removed from office, which is what is meant in Brazil by “impeachment.” Anyone, even Brazilians, who have been trying to follow the last several months of political maneuvering may be excused if they are somewhat confused by the many turns this process has taken
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In 2015, Romero and her community were able to successfully stop the construction of the hydroelectric dam
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Ellner: Beyond the Boliburguesía Thesis
Why critics of Chavismo are wrong to suggest that socialism is to blame for corruption in Venezuela
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Sullivan: Calling ALL Venezuelans to the Table
The solidarity and natural bartering system that has unfolded in our Venezuela-in-crisis is beautiful, and it is what has allowed us to survive until now
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Wilpert: Country profile: Ecuador
In the days following the catastrophic earthquake that struck Ecuador...
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Zirin: The 2016 Rio Olympics & Brazil’s Collapsing Political System
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and...
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Alvarez: OAS Threatens to Suspend Venezuela While Ignoring Recent Ouster of Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff
Interview on the situation in Venezuela and the actions of the OAS
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Hallinan: A Very Brazilian Coup
On one level, the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff...
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Branford: Brazil: Recolonising a continent
Examining the past failures and future prospects of the left in Brazil in the face of a concerted US-backed right-wing offensive
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Gutiérrez D.: Insurgency, conflict and communalism in Colombia
For decades, the FARC has led the revolutionary struggle in Colombia, but now farmers are taking over control by means of communal assemblies.
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The conversations include discussions of the important role played in Dilma’s removal by the most powerful national institutions, including — most importantly — Brazil’s military leaders
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Fernandes: The Right Marches on Brazil
Brazil’s interim government is orchestrating a stunning transfer of power to the country’s elites
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Pearson: Media Wars: The Role of the Left When Venezuela’s Imperfect Revolution is Under Attack
The best way to counter the media war on Venezuela is to do what they don't do: offer in depth, contextualised, critical coverage
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Lebowitz: Building alternatives to neoliberalism in Latin America
Interview on the opposition to neoliberalism and the prospects for a socialist alternative in Latin America today
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Dangl: Openings and Labyrinths of Latin America’s Left
The leftist wave wasn't without its grave pitfalls and perhaps structural flaws. Maybe it will take this crisis to build an even more enduring political front and movement alternative
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Da silva: Lula: Media, US-Friendly Elites Responsible for Brazil’s Coup
Lula told teleSUR that new Senate-imposed interim President Michel Temer...
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Wallerstein: The Politics Behind Brazil’s Crisis
The struggle is worldwide and the Brazilian left can either play a major role in it or slip into global irrelevance and national misery
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Boron: Taking power by storm in Brazil
The PT’s tendency to slow down the mobilizations and de-organize the popular movement that had begun in the first stage of Lula’s administration, would leave Dilma unprotected against the attacks of the right
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Brazil’s new government is the product of a parliamentary coup and a bankrupt political class
Latin America Blogs
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Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
“A little child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6d “In truth...
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Originally signed five years ago, the US-Colombia “free-trade” agreement, or...
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Young: Latin American Opinion and US Policy
The Chilean polling firm Latinobarómetro has just released its annual...
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Young: Bolivia Dilemmas: Turmoil, Transformation, and Solidarity
Bolivia has erupted in conflict over the government’s controversial plans...
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: Economias Emergentes y Apreciación del Tipo de Cambio
ECONOMÍAS EMERGENTES Y APRECIACIÓN DEL TIPO DE CAMBIO. ENFOQUE...
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Black: Global Minga solidarity statements
These community statements are from locals who share their experiences,...
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Bohmer: Introduction for Noam Chomsky,November 1, 2010
Introducing Noam Chomsky by Peter Bohmer November 1, 2010 at ...
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Peterson: Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System
When a young Iranian woman was shot dead by the...
Video Latin America
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Greenwald: Goal of Rousseff Impeachment is to Boost Neoliberals & Protect Corruption
The real goal is to protect corruption
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de Sousa Santos: The Most Honest Politician in Latin America Will Be Removed By the Most Corrupt
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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de Sousa Santos: Brazilian Senate to Vote on President Rousseff’s Impeachment
A look at why Rousseff's impeachment is a highly political process and not a legal one and how this "legislative coup" can be compared to others in recent Latin American history
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Chomsky: The economic war on Latin America
Does the US foreign policy shift in relations toward Cuba indicate a change in regional goals, or does it signal new strategy to advance the same old objectives?
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Assange: The Untold Story of the Grounding of Evo Morales’ Plane During Edward Snowden Manhunt
Interview on why that plane was targeted
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Golinger: Why the CIA Won’t Give Up on Venezuela
Interview about the Western backed resistance groups in Venezuela and how there is a coup happening in real time
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Golinger: The Media War on Venezuela
Venezuela has been in the eye of a constant media storm. That storm is intensifying as a new opposition coup plot was thwarted
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During the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende in Chile, US journalist Charles Hormon was captured, tortured, and killed. Imaginary Lines speaks with his widow, Joyce Hormon on her quest for justice
ZMag Latin America
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Wallerstein: Behind Brazil’s Crisis
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has been suspended from her office while she goes on trial by the Senate. If convicted, she would be removed from office, which is what is meant in Brazil by “impeachment.” Anyone, even Brazilians, who have been trying to follow the last several months of political maneuvering may be excused if they are somewhat confused by the many turns this process has taken
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Oikonomakis: Nicaragua and the Ghosts of Revolution
One could suggest that Nicaragua and its people are suffering more than anything else from a collective trauma
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Gedicks: Globalized Mining Resistance from El Salvador to Wisconsin
The environmental devastation from past and ongoing gold mining operations in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras has provoked a formidable Salvadoran social movement that has been educating and organizing communities for a total ban against metallic mining in El Salvador.
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Quandt: A Review of “Latin America’s Radical Left”
The radical left in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador enshrines participatory democracy in their constitutions; and it rejects the state-centered strategy of the old left. It also repudiates neo-liberalism
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Gedicks: Review of Dawn Paley’s Drug War Capitalism
Based on extensive travels, interviews, and research in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, Dawn Paley invites the reader to consider other factors and motivations for the war on drugs
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Campbell: Elbit: Exporting Oppression From Palestine to Latin America
Elbit Systems has made millions exporting surveillance and defense material worldwide
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Marshall: Assassins of Argentina
The role played by former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan in creating the conditions that led to the 2008 global financial meltdown is known to many. What is less known is that Greenspan is a former member of the Group of Thirty.
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Skeen: Coca-Cola Sued for “Campaign of Violence”
On February 25, 2010, Josè Armando Palacios and Josè Alberto...
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Wilson: Resisting CAFTA and Metal Mining in El Salvador
On Friday, January 8, hundreds of people arrived in the...
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Vltchek: The Earth Shook as Right Wing Took Power
On February 27, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded,...
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Burbach: Movements Face Off with Ecuador’s President Correa
Beginning his fourth year as president of Ecuador, Rafael...
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The last Sunday in June began normally for Evangelica Argueta,...
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Conteris: From Coup-lite to Truth-lite: U.S. Policy in Honduras
In the "Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side...
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Kerssen: Morales and Social Movements Confront New Challenges
Bolivian president Evo Morales and his political party, the Movement...
