Category: Latin America
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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 »
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Can People’s Power Save the Bolivarian Revolution?
Rightists’ election victory poses major threat to Venezuela’s advances Seventeen years after Hugo Chávez was elected Venezuela’s President for the first time, the supporters of his Bolivarian Revolution, now led by … Keep reading »
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A New Political Situation in Latin America: What Lies Ahead?
Two recent events – the second-round victory on November 22 of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina’s presidential election, and the December 6 victory of the right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable, … Keep reading »
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Brazilian Democracy in Distress: Unpacking Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment
Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has opened impeachment procedures against President Dilma Rousseff, of the Workers’ Party (PT). This political manoeuvre is led by an unholy coalition including the Speaker of … Keep reading »
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Elections Theater
For the past eleven years, since the coup and overthrow of the elected government in 2004, Haiti has been deemed so dysfunctional, so failed, a state, that the international community … Keep reading »
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The Roots of the Current Situation in Venezuela
The current economic, political, and social situation in Venezuela is very complicated, which makes it somewhat difficult for outsiders to make sense of. On the one hand there are many … Keep reading »
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The Search for a Political Practice: Venezuela 2000-2015
It is common to understand the diverse “processes” in Latin America – in the period marked initially by Zapatismo in the mid-1990s and later by the emergence of left or … Keep reading »
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The Pope’s Message in Bolivia and to the World
Report by a Canadian participant In retrospect, it must be said that the College of Cardinals made an astute decision in 2013 when they chose Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as … Keep reading »