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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
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
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
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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And Re-birth of the Latin American Anti-imperialist Left
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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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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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US Concern for Cuba, Latin America Is Spin For Intervention
Any help or aid from the US always comes with conditions and ulterior motives
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Latin America's left galvanized by rising star in Peru
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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
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
Nation Reels from Pandemic & Political Crisis
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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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State, power and society in Latin America
From state violence and neoliberal extractivism to Colombia’s general strike and Zapatismo
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The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration
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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
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A Bit of Hope That Doesn’t Come from Miami
Defeat is not in their vocabulary. Their agenda is hopeful, unlike the bilious agenda that comes from the US government and the Miami-based Cuban oligarchy
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For many in Central America, the only way out of this violence and extreme poverty is asylum in the United States. For the new generation that remains, the struggle that started over four decades ago continues
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The U.S. War on Drugs is Driving the Displacement Crisis
Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America
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The Pink Tide Drowns Women And Indigenous People
Latin American populisms definitely don't get along with feminism. Women's agendas make them extremely uncomfortable
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From the Murder of Berta Cáceres to Dam Disaster in Uttarakhand
Two stories about the consequences of the insatiable greed of capitalism for more energy
Zmag
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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
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
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
In the tradition of the Underground Railroad, anti-racist solidarity is propelling many to take action to free the refugees
Video
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Prison gave me a greater will to fight
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
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?
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
Brazil's Supreme Court is able to intervene on procedural grounds in Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, not on the merits of the case
Audio
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Latin America’s “Made in the USA”
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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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
In Argentina, the President and a council of judges postponed...
Blogs
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“Kumbaya” and Bullets: The Few Winners and Many Losers with the US-Colombia Free-Trade Agreement
Originally signed five years ago, the US-Colombia “free-trade” agreement, or...
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Latin American Opinion and US Policy
The Chilean polling firm Latinobarómetro has just released its annual...
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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...
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...
