By John Perry on July 19, 2022 from Masaya Nicaragua
Masaya on July 19, Photo: John Perry
July 19th is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. But the international media will have it penciled in their diaries for another reason: it’s yet another opportunity to pour scorn on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. (more…)
By Emir Sader on July 16, 2022
The popularity of Evita Peron continues in a new tv mini-series in Argentina. Photo: Bill Hackwell
The bourgeoisie has no heroes, according to Brecht. They have no intention of generating those heroes. They make the official history with their leaders, who have reached governments without arriving as heroes of the country. (more…)
By Ilka Oliva-Corado on July 18, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Guillermina leaves the grocery bags on the table and urgently takes out a plum, washes it and takes a bite, the juice drips from the corner of her lips. She closes her eyes and slowly savors its sweetness as she thanks the hands that cared for her since the seed of the tree was planted. (more…)
By Tanupriya Singh on July 15, 2022
Photo: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia
On July 12, former US National Security advisor John Bolton, admitted on national television that he had helped orchestrate coups in foreign countries. Bolton was speaking to CNN host Jake Tapper amid the hearings in Congress on the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, by supporters of former president Donald Trump. (more…)
By João Pedro Stedile on July 13, 2022
Landless, but with a lot of history, the peasants of Brazil’s MST have been practicing internationalism as a principle since 1984. As in their own flag, the machete overflows the borders and traces the itinerary of new possible maps. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 14, 2022
The eyes of the world are beginning to turn to Brazil. This October, the Brazilian people will go to the polls hoping to change the country’s political course and overthrow the unpopular Jair Bolsonaro. (more…)
July 14, 2022
“we will defeat the adjustment”
Early today thousands of workers and unemployed concentrated in different parts of Buenos Aires followed by a massive march to the Plaza de Mayo and to the centers of political power. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on July 14, 2022
Undoubtedly, the most relevant news of the week in Latin America was the visit of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) to the United States. (more…)