Category: Latin America
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Breaking the Stasis: The Left Writes a New Chapter in Peru
On June 10, 2021, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) published the results of the second round of elections to elect the new president of Peru, with the winner … Keep reading »
Peace in Colombia Should Mean Land Reform and an End to Hunger
Since the end of April, Colombia’s streets have smelled of tear gas. The government of Colombian President Iván Duque imposed policies that put the costs of the pandemic on the … Keep reading »
Colombia: The Military, Peasants, and the Environment
Colombia witnessed a series of mass protests at the end of April following a call for a national strike. Still ongoing, the protests have many causes: an apparent “tax reform” … Keep reading »
Colombia’s Leaders Want to Stain Their Country with the Blood of the Working Class
In the face of a state that assassinates its own people, the Colombian people remain on the streets and continue resisting. Keep reading »
Greenwashing with Bolsonaro: Heineken and Carrefour privatize the Amazon
The history of alliances between big capital and fascism has many different chapters and they continue to be written, but there has rarely been an uglier or more despicable example … Keep reading »
Ecuador Election: From Rafael Correa to Guillermo Lasso via Lenin Moreno
On 11 April 2021, Guillermo Lasso, the right-wing candidate, defeated Andres Arauz, the candidate supported by Rafael Correa and part of the Left, by 52.4% vs 47.6% in the second … Keep reading »
Brazil After the Collapse
Health experts warned about it for weeks. In early March, the Brazilian health system entered a state of collapse under the weight of a nationwide spike in COVID-19 infections. Hospitals … Keep reading »
Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
“They have discovered smart weapons. We have discovered something more important: people think and feel” — Fidel Castro. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the failure of most Western capitalist countries … Keep reading »
The Class Character of the Expansion of COVID-19: The Case of Peru’s Capital City Lima
At the end of December 2019, the world was notified about the existence of a new coronavirus in the city of Wuhan in China. This virus, SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19), rapidly spread … Keep reading »
Will Andrés Arauz Be the Next President of Ecuador?
In Ecuador’s presidential election held on February 7, 2021, Andrés Arauz won the largest number of votes but could not prevail in the first round against 15 other candidates; he … Keep reading »
The US is Trying to Provoke a Soft Coup in Cuba
We are in the era of soft coups. Old-fashioned coups d’état and invasions get terrible press. The images of US troops invading the Dominican Republic in 1965 or marching through … Keep reading »
Intensification of Contradictions in the Empire: Election in the USA and Its Impacts
In his last interview (streamed live on November 6th, 2020), Leo Panitch spoke with the International Relations and Marxism Network (RIMA), in partnership with Chutando a Escada Podcast and PUC-Rio, … Watch video »