By Stansfield Smith on January 6, 2022
During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. US organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th century phenomenon. (more…)
By Tricontinental, Dossier #47 on December 6, 2021
courtesy Tricontinental
As the old world dies, Antonio Gramsci said, it is in the ‘interregnum’ where monsters emerge. The images in New Clothes, Old Threads use satire and mockery to confront the monsters of the emerging fascist and right-wing movements in Latin America. Satire, after all, has been historically used as an art form of resistance to confront fascism. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on January 4, 2022
photo: EPA
On January 4th, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reiterated his decision to give humanitarian asylum to the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The statement came after the United Kingdom High Court agreed to extradite him to the United States. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 4, 2022
Exactly one year ago, Chavismo regained the National Assembly in Venezuela, leaving behind the nefarious wake of the parliament in contempt that was subordinated to the farce of wannabe president, but couldn’t ever be, Juan Guaido. (more…)
By Froilán González García on January 4, 2022
Cuba is strong, we will recover and we will win. photo; Ariel Cecilio Lemus
The difficult and complicated year 2021 came to an end. In Cuba, in addition to the confrontation with the Pandemic, the world economic crisis, the US blockade, which after 63 years was tightened with 243 measures by the Genocidal President. It even increased with new sanctions by his successor (more…)
By Renán Vega Cantor on January 1, 2022
“They are killing us, let the world know it!”
The State and the ruling classes of Colombia, which constitute the counter insurgent power bloc, have made use of a series of fallacies to hide the terrorist nature of the State in this country, consolidated as such for decades. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on January 1, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba has been the heart and beacon of Latin America since the beginning of 1959, when we saw those who some called the bearded “angels” come down from the Sierra Maestra mountain range, who had accomplished the greatest feat in our history, defeating the imperial power in the middle of the 20th century, only 90 miles from its coasts (more…)
December 29, 2021
Today the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, mourned the death of US activist and organizer Chuck Kaufman, who consistently supported social movements in Latin American countries. (more…)