Category: Latin America
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Bolivia’s Voters Reaffirm ‘Process of Change’
But Issue Warnings to the Governing MAS Up to 90 per cent of the electorate voted in Bolivia’s “subnational” elections March 29 for governors, mayors and departmental assembly and municipal council … Keep reading »
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The Ultra-Political Game: Depoliticization and False Polarization in Brazil
In a recent essay (see “Brazil: The Débâcle of the PT”), Alfredo Saad-Filho writes of the dilemmas the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) now faces in Brazil. His … Keep reading »
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Bolivia: Burdens of a State Manager
In the opening salvos of Latin America’s uneven lurch to the Left in the early twenty-first century, Bolivia distinguished itself as the region’s most radical socio-political terrain.[1] Left-indigenous movements in … Keep reading »
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Brazil: The Débâcle of the PT
Hundreds of thousands of chiefly white middle class protesters took to the streets in Brazil on 15 March in an organized upsurge of hatred against the federal administration led by … Keep reading »
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Education and Mobilization in Contested Mexico
On September 26, 2014, students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers’ College were attacked by police and gunmen in the town of Iguala. Three were killed, dozens injured and 43 student-teachers were taken away, never to be seen again. Watch video »
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ALBA after ten years
Exploreing the achievements and challenges of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA). Recorded in Toronto, 21 February 2015. Watch video »
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Alberto Nisman’s Death and AMIA: Who Cares About the Truth?
We offer here two articles by Ezequiel Adamovsky and Atilio Boron on the politics surrounding the death of Alberto Nisman in Argentina. On 18 January the Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman … Keep reading »
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Release of Cuban Five Opens New Chapter in Cuba-U.S. Relations
The release December 17 of the remaining three of five Cubans held for 15 years in U.S. prisons is an historic victory for the Cuban people, their government and supporters … Keep reading »
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After Chavez: The Maduro Government And The ‘Economic War’ in Venezuela
Nearly two years after the death of Hugo Chávez, the key question that many on the left are debating, in Venezuela and elsewhere, is whether his successors have been true … Keep reading »
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43 Students and the Future of Mexico
Nearly two months ago, on September 26, a group of students from the Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos – a boarding school for student teachers in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero – was … Keep reading »
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Partners in Crime: The Continental Capitalist Offensive and the Killing Fields of Mexico
State Terror and the Murder of 43 Students The Mexican government, welcomed as a partner of the Canadian and U.S. governments in continental economic development (North American Free Trade Agreement – … Keep reading »
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How Bolivia is Leading the Global Fight Against Climate Disaster
Bolivia goes to the polls on Sunday, October 12, in the country’s third national election since the victory of Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in December 2005 … Keep reading »