Category: Latin America
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ALBA Social Movements in Canada Condemn the Attacks Against Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement
On the morning of November 4th, 2016, Brazilian military and civilian police used violent force to storm Brazil’s, Landless Workers Movement‘s (MST) Florestan Fernandes National School (ENFF) in Guararema, outside … Keep reading »
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Canadian Mining Corporations in Latin America: Solidarity Rally
Toronto — 14 October 2016. Trade agreements are a weapon against communities! Community consent over corporate bullying! La lucha sigue; the struggle continues! In 2008, after years of violence, conflict, … Watch video »
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What Happened to the Pink Tide?
When the ‘pink tide’ of left-leaning governments first rose to power on the back of anti-neoliberal protests across Latin America in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the initial reaction … Keep reading »
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Censorship is Back in Fashion in Brazil
Lately, it’s been common to say that the “right has come out of the closet” in Brazil. More precisely, the authoritarian, fascist right, has done so and very publicly for … Keep reading »
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Reactionary Tide in Latin America
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Left has won elections in most Latin American countries, in a powerful wave of popular rejection of the disastrous neoliberal policies of … Keep reading »
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“Dilma’s Mistake Was to Promote Class Conciliation”
Interview With João Pedro Stédile The economist and leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) of Brazil, Joao Pedro Stédile, affirmed that left-wing forces won’t allow the Parliamentarian right to fulfill … Keep reading »
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The Cuban Five Freed: Toronto Welcomes Gerardo Hernández
Toronto — 3 April 2016. Gerardo Hernández is one of the three of the Cuban Five who had been behind bars since 1998, until U.S. President Obama freed them on … Watch video »
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Crisis in Brazil
Since the 1980s, Brazil’s Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) has been one of the largest political parties of the left in Latin America. It has held power at the … Keep reading »
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Beyond Memory / Más allá de la Memoria
Traces of the Past in Struggle for the Future Toronto — 10 March 2016. For its 2016 Baptista Lecture, CERLAC is delighted to host a panel discussion on the use of … Watch video »
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Overthrowing Dilma Rousseff
It’s Class War, and Their Class is Winning Every so often, the bourgeois political system runs into crisis. The machinery of the state jams; the veils of consent are torn asunder … Keep reading »
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Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At an End?
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 … Keep reading »
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Eagle and Condor Meet in Oneida
On Sunday, October 25, a 10 person delegation headed by Irene Leon, advisor to the Ecuadorian foreign minister, was welcomed at the Kayanere’ko:wa longhouse within the K^onthyokwanhasta on Elijah Rd, … Keep reading »