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, by TRNĚNÝ Tomáš
Just as the US’s stance on Ukraine changed after Donald Trump returned to the White House, there has been a turnaround in Latin America. A prime example is Argentine President Javier Miel.
It was a gesture almost unprecedented in Latin America. Less than an hour after his inauguration and (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Claudio Katz has just published a book in Spanish entitled America Latina en la encrucijada global [1] (“Latin America at the Global Crossroads”). Claudio Katz is a Marxist economist and professor at the University of Buenos Aires, author of some fifteen books concerning the Dependency theory (…)
, by JOHN Tamanisha
Despite the reality of US intervention causing inhumane conditions in the region, Venezuela’s push for the annexation of Guyana’s Essequibo region prioritizes its own political objectives, heightening tensions with the US and leaving the Guyanese people without a say in their own fate.
This (…)
, by BIELER Andreas
EU and Mercosur leaders ignore the voice of the people to push forward with toxic deal declared the Stop EU – Mercosur campaign alliance, a coalition of more than 450 organisations from Latin America and Europe, including trade unions, farmers organisations, social movements, animal activists (…)
, by PALEY Dawn Marie
The left in Canada and the U.S. is increasingly divided on the question of how best to express solidarity with the Global South. When it comes to journalism, the question relates to whose voices we include and when we do so.
Some on the left think we should seek to show solidarity primarily (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Over 400 years ago, long before Woodrow Wilson or Vladimir Lenin, the Christian humanist Bartolomé de Las Casas, known as the “Defender of the Indians,” developed a theory of the right of nations to self-determination that can be applied to many other countries today, including Ukraine. (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The United States has long dominated Latin America, but today—in fact for the last twenty years—it is being challenged by China, which has invested billions and established political and some military relationships with many governments in the region.
The U.S. took control of Latin America (…)
, by GAUDICHAUD Frank
Recently there has been talk of a return to so-called “progressive” governments. There are several possible ways of describing such governments and we could have a long discussion around the use of the term “progressive”. Using this designation makes it possible to describe a trust rather to the (…)
, by CARVALHAES Ana C., DUTRA Israel
In one of the regions contributing most to the global increase in the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths, amid health chaos, unemployment, hunger and escalating inequality, workers, students and young people in the urban peripheries, peasants, small village dwellers, black and indigenous (…)
, by RODRIGUEZ Simon
On June 30, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held a hearing on the territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo territory. We have arrived to this after decades of failed mediation attempts by the UN, arranged under the 1966 Geneva Agreement signed a few months (…)
, by MAGALHÃES Bruno
“Look! Our cameras are filming you.”
“Ojo!”, or “look!” in Portuguese, is a Chilean expression for “attention!”. And those who arrive in downtown Santiago quickly see government posters demanding attention with the message “our cameras are watching you,” a failed threat to the thousands of (…)
, by SMITH Ashley, WEBBER Jeffery R.
From Chile to Ecuador, a wave of revolts against neoliberal austerity has swept through Latin America. Elections have brought the Peronists back to office in Argentina, and political crisis to Bolivia under Evo Morales. Brazil remains under the shadow of Jair Bolsonaro, but how enduring is his (…)
, by KATZ Claudio, WEBBER Jeffery R.
On May 5, 2019 I spoke with Argentine economist Claudio Katz in his Buenos Aires apartment. We discussed themes from his last two books, Neoliberalismo, neodesarrollismo, socialismo (Neoliberalism, neodevelopmentalism, socialism, 2016) and La teoría de la dependencia, cincuenta años después (…)
, by HERRERA Ernesto
July 2018, Havana. On the podium of Heads of State: Miguel Díaz Canal, Raúl Castro (President-Elect and President of Cuba), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Salvador Sánchez Cerén (El Salvador) opened the sessions of the XXIV São Paulo Forum (SPF), the annual summit of Latin (…)
, by ENCARNACIÓN Omar G.
A thoughtful essay on Latin left politics from a social democratic perspective
Conservatives now control Latin America’s leading economies, but the region’s leftists can still look to Uruguay for direction.
Last December’s election of Sebastián Piñera, of the National Renewal party, to the (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
The representatives of social and popular organizations of Peru, Latin America and the Caribbean, met in Lima, Peru from April 10 to 14, 2018 to discuss the political, social and economic reality of Our America.
We, the representatives of social and popular organizations of Peru, Latin (…)
Four land defenders are murdered every week. Latin American governments’ economic growth model prizes profit at all cost.
As the Guardian and Global Witness revealed that almost four environmental defenders were murdered every week in 2017, War on Want learned of two more killings through our (…)
, by GAUDICHAUD Frank
By the end of 2015, researcher and teacher Franck Gaudichaud published in Chile the book “Latin America: Liberation in progress” [[http://www.thedawn-news.org/2016/01/20/latin-america-a-look-at-the-political-moment-of-backflow], which compiles texts from different authors on several political (…)
, by KATZ Claudio
In this ambitious and compelling overview of the strategic and programmatic issues at stake in South America today, Argentine political economist Claudio Katz expands on many of the observations he made in an earlier interview while critically analyzing contrasting approaches to development that (…)
, by GAUDICHAUD Frank
More than 40 years after the coup d’état that defeated the Chilean road to socialism and 30 years since the foundation of the largest social movement on the continent, the Movimiento de trabajadores rurales sin tierra (MST - Movement of Landless Rural Workers) of Brazil; 20 years since the (…)
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