Recent Latin America
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Lovato: Abrams Bringing Violence of 1980s Latin America Policy to Venezuela
Interview on the violent history of Elliott Abrams and the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela
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Carlsen: Regime Change Enthusiasts
Amid crises in Venezuela, migration, and the climate, the Western Hemisphere’s chief regional organization the OAS, has been hobbled by pro-Trump leadership
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Jordan: Is foreign military intervention in Venezuela imminent?
The frustrations of the Bolivarian movement’s enemies are palpable. Does this mean intervention is imminent? And what would such an intervention look like?
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Jorden: A New Caravan Heads North for the American Dream
They’re gathering in the early morning hours of Friday, October 12, 2018 outside the city. At least 100: nursing mothers and motherless teens, a man on crutches and another pushed by his brother in a wheelchair
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Zibechi: The State of Social Movements in Latin America
Interview on the impacts of the progressive governments in South America, the rise of the far right, the politics of extractivism in oil, gas, and mining industries, and how women and youth represent the hope of building a new world
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How One Country Is Pursuing Decarbonization Despite Global Inaction
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Betto: Latin American Leftists Must Think Why Poorest Support Is Lower
Interview on the “self-criticism” that the Workers’ Party (PT) has to do to reconstruct itself in this context and how the influence of the evangelical churches impacts on politics
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Baroud: The Conspiracy against Refugees
Watching the ongoing debate between US liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding crisis in Central America
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Jorden: Between a wall and a hard place
What now for Hondurans in Tijuana?
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Gordon: Branding migrants ‘human shields’ has a deadly motive
As the migrant caravan works its way north, and is further demonized for doing so, the world should reflect on this and how one of the pillars of international law – the category of civilian – is being eroded
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Nahem: Cornered: Trump Gets Thumped on Cuba at the UN
The 2018 UN vote against the US blockade strengthens Cuba’s position in this volatile and explosive period in world and Western Hemispheric politics, and in the international class and national liberation struggles, that are now unfolding
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Orphan: The Power That Must be Resisted
Resistance must be radical and it must be global because, given the circumstances and our collective predicament, only a radical paradigm shift offers a chance of creating a different world than the dystopic one we are seeing unfold before us
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Petersen-Smith: How To Welcome Migrants and Refugees With Open Arms
In 2015, ordinary Europeans welcomed refugees with open arms. Will we do the same with the caravan from Central America?
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Chomsky: Caravan Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created by the U.S.
Interview about the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and other recent white supremacist and right-wing attacks
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Geglia: Life Laid Bare in Honduras
How the Migrant Caravan Makes Neoliberal Dictatorship Visible
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Fernandez: The inconvenient truth about the migrant caravan
The migrant caravan Trump is so obsessed about is a direct result of US foreign policy
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Dobson: Venezuelan Opposition Celebrates Bolsonaro, Calls for Intervention
The result sparked deep concern among Chavista sectors fearing a possible military escalation from the ex-military man, whom they describe as a “neo-fascist.”
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Telesur English: AMLO Speaks Up For Rights of Honduran Migrants Caravan
"If there is economic growth in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, in Chiapas, in Tabasco, in Oaxaca, there will be no migration phenomenon"
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The 7,000-person strong caravan from Central America has made international headlines and been targeted by the Trump administration. But the roots of the refugee crisis that led to the caravan go much deeper
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García: Caravan of 3,000 Central American Migrants Crosses Into Mexico
Thousands of Central American migrants have defied Donald Trump and streamed over the international bridge from Guatemala into Mexico, where some clashed with riot police in an attempt to continue their journey north
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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Chomsky: Building Sustainable Economies
Interview on the politics in Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela and across Latin America
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Boothroyd Rojas: Why has Venezuela’s Supreme Court Assumed Legislative Power?
Discussion on the Venezuelan TSJ’s move to assume the legislative power of the AN
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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
ZMag Latin America
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Jorden: A New Caravan Heads North for the American Dream
They’re gathering in the early morning hours of Friday, October 12, 2018 outside the city. At least 100: nursing mothers and motherless teens, a man on crutches and another pushed by his brother in a wheelchair
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Simon: Trump’s Mexico High: Drugs, Migration, and NAFTA
Mexican society and its people needed no primer on democracy and advocacy. The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 was the first socialist-populist revolution of the western hemisphere and, arguably, of the world
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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,...
