Latin America
Puerto Rico: How US Domination Lies behind the Debt Crisis
Puerto Rico looks set to miss a new deadline on payments regarding the island’s US$72 billion debt. Despite the measures taken by the local authorities, many...
Argentina: Massive Protest Against Macri’s government
In commemoration of the International Worker’s Day, all five Worker’s Centrals converged outside the Ministry of Labour in Buenos Aires City after marching from different...
A Letter to President Rousseff
Dear President Rousseff,
Please do not let go! Don’t let the corrupt neoliberal right wing with the help – no, at the instigation of Washington...
Venezuelan Parliament Goes on Offensive to Oust Maduro
By LUCAS KOERNER
Venezuela’s opposition-controlled legislature passed a constitutional amendment in first discussion this Wednesday. If approved by popular referendum, the reform will cut short...
Voices from Puerto Rico’s Students
Voices from Puerto Rico's Students Leading an Anti-Austerity Movement
Puerto Rican college students have been waging a series of demonstrations to protest austerity measures they...
Assassinations in Brazil
The oligarchy and the enemies of the people murder peasants in Brazil
The Continental Articulation of Social Movements towards the ALBA emphatically condemns the events...
A ‘Silent Coup’ for Brazil?
Brazil and other Latin American progressive governments are on the defensive as U.S.-backed political movements employ “silent coup” tactics to discredit and remove troublesome...
Chávez on self-management: the policy he did not have the time...
Introduction
On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced...
An alternative view on Venezuela’s Crisis
By Peter Bolton
Reports in the English-language press last week highlighted a series of small-scale street protests in Venezuela that bemoaned the scarcity of certain...
Obama’s pivot to Latin America
By Bill Van Auken
“It takes courage for a society to address uncomfortable truths about the darker parts of its past. Confronting crimes committed by...