Latin America & Caribbean

The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism. In all major regions of the World, the Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration and struggle...
In 2003, "Leftists" applauded the inauguration of Luis Ignacio da Silva as a victory against neoliberalism, without acknowledging that Lula's PT had embraced the demands of Wall Street and the IMF. In the words of IMF Managing Director (2003) "the IMF listens to President Lula and the economic team".
Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution has passed. The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism.
The Junta ordered a hike in the price of bread from 11 to 40 escudos. While food prices had skyrocketed, wages had been frozen. From one day to the next, an entire country had been precipitated into abysmal poverty; in less than a year the price of bread in Chile increased thirty-six fold.
Jair Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro, Next President of Brazil. 55.6% of the Vote By Global Research News, October 29, 2018
The Occasional Stupidity of Hope and How, Again, “To Learn from Cuba” By Prof Susan Babbitt, October 29, 2018
Democracy in Brazil Is Not Just About Voting. Bolsonaro, “The Tropical Trump” By Nino Pagliccia, October 28, 2018
Brazil: The Collapse of Democracy? Rise of the Far Right By Alfredo Saad-Filho, October 27, 2018
Big Business Strikes Back: The Class Struggle from Above. The Neo-Liberal “New Order” By Prof. James Petras, October 27, 2018
Trump to Deploy Hundreds of Troops to the Border against Central American Migrants By Andrea Lobo, October 26, 2018
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Political Nightmare: a Neo-Nazi ‘Phenomenon’ Made in the USA By Edu Montesanti, October 26, 2018
Heritage Foundation in Shadow of Haiti’s PetroCaribe Protests? By Dady Chery, October 25, 2018
Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil – Bolsonaro Towards a Military Dictatorship – Worse Than 80 Years Ago By Peter Koenig, October 24, 2018
International Law
Venezuela under Siege: The West’s Ongoing Campaign against President Maduro By Michael Welch, Yves Engler, and Steve Ellner, October 24, 2018
The Shadow of the Deep State Over Today’s Brazil By Daniel Espinosa, October 22, 2018
What Does López Obrador’s Cabinet Say About His Upcoming Presidency? By Tommy Hansen, October 22, 2018
Leading US House Democrat Demands That Ecuador’s President “Hand Over” Julian Assange By Mike Head, October 22, 2018
Haiti: Nearly a Million People Took to the Streets. They Want the Western-imposed government out of Haiti By Ezili Dantò, October 19, 2018
Opium
Mexico: The Legalization of Opium for Medicinal Use? By Andrew Korybko, October 19, 2018
Warfare Tools
Economic and Judicial War Tools to Subvert Democracy By Nino Pagliccia, October 18, 2018
‘One of Most Disturbing Articles I Have Ever Read’ Scientist Says of Study Detailing Climate-Driven ‘Bugpocalypse’ By Jake Johnson, October 18, 2018
Canada Escalates Its Hypocritical Attack on Venezuela By Yves Engler, October 18, 2018
Venezuela Ditches US Dollar, Will Use Euros for International Trade By Zero Hedge, October 18, 2018
Mohammad bin Salman
Trump’s Alliance with Body-Choppers, Death Squads and Child Killers: Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Israel By Prof. James Petras, October 17, 2018
Mexico Confirms Number of Disappeared at 37,485 By Telesur, October 16, 2018
Maduro
Why Is the CBC Lying About Venezuela? Trudeau Government Favors US Intervention By Alison Bodine, October 15, 2018
Jair Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro and Brazil’s “National Security Ideology”: Order and Progress Was Never a Civilian Slogan By Dr. T. P. Wilkinson, October 15, 2018
To the People’s Tribunal on U.S. Crimes Against Puerto Rico. “Suffocated by Neoliberalism” By Berta Joubert-Ceci, October 15, 2018
Lopez Obrador
Can President-elect Lopez Obrador Pull Mexico Out of Slumber? By Andre Vltchek, October 15, 2018
‘We Are Afraid’: Anti-Bolsonaro Voters, Journalists Targeted in Wave of Political Violence Across Brazil, Activists Call for Action By Telesur, October 14, 2018
Canada
If NAFTA Has Been Replaced by USMCA, Is Canada Still Haunted by the FTA? By Prof. John Ryan, October 14, 2018
Brazilian Elections and the Stakes for Democracy By Michael Welch, Pepe Escobar, and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, October 14, 2018
Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Neo-Liberal Fascist Road to Power By Prof. James Petras, October 13, 2018
Revolution at Risk: ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ in Venezuela Aims at Regime Change By W.T. Whitney Jr., October 12, 2018
Maduro: White House Ordered Colombia to Kill Me By Press TV, October 12, 2018
‘Projects and interests will become clear in runoff’. MST leader on the presidential race between Workers’ Party’s Fernando Haddad and far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro By João Pedro Stedile and Brasil de Fato, October 11, 2018
Future of Western Democracy Being Played Out in Brazil By Pepe Escobar, October 11, 2018
Chevron, Corporations and the Law Versus Life and Lives By Harry Glasbeek, October 09, 2018
Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Haddad and Bolsonaro to Go Head to Head in Second Round By Morning Star, October 09, 2018
Wolf at the Door: Prospects of US Military Intervention in Venezuela By Aram Aharonian, October 09, 2018
NAFTA 2.0: Free Trade or Central Planning? By Rep. Ron Paul, October 08, 2018
MST Open Letter on Brazil Election By MST - Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, October 08, 2018
Lula
Brazil’s Non-Elections: A Crisis of Trust, a Failure of Democracy By Asad Ismi, October 07, 2018
Trump Has Venezuela in His Sights By Tim Young, October 07, 2018
Authoritarian Brazil Redux? By Massimiliano Mollona, October 07, 2018
The CIA Finger in Brasil’s Elections? By Marcelo Zero, October 06, 2018
Yves Engler
Left, Right — Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada: A Conversation with Yves Engler By Michael Welch and Yves Engler, October 06, 2018
Miguel Diaz-Canal Bermudez
Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel at the UN General Assembly. Global Capitalism Triggers War and Poverty By President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, October 05, 2018
Puerto Rico Governor Calls for ‘Elimination’ of Venezuelan Government, Offers to Host ‘Transition’ Logistics By Paul Dobson, October 05, 2018
Nicolas Maduro Moros
Venezuela and the United States – Contrasting Worldviews at the UN General Assembly By Nino Pagliccia, October 05, 2018
Nicaragua
The US Presidency of the United Nations Security Council’s Attempt to Demonize Nicaragua By Carla Stea, October 04, 2018
Nicolas Maduro Moros
Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro Risks His Life with Surprise Appearance at the United Nations General Assembly By Carla Stea, October 04, 2018
The Stock Market Just Crashed in Italy, and Argentina Has Panic-Raised Interest Rates to 65 Percent By Michael Snyder, October 04, 2018
Venezuela: The Dodgy Dealings of US-EU Sponsored NGOs at the Colombian Border By Bruno Sgarzini, October 04, 2018
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family By Bryant Brown, October 03, 2018
Miguel Diaz-Canal Bermudez
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal Bermudez’ Speech at UN General Assembly and Riverside Church, New York By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 03, 2018
NAFTA
NAFTA 2.0: US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a Profit Driven “Corporate Coup d’Etat” By Stephen Lendman, October 02, 2018
Nuclear war
One Click Closer to Nuclear Annihilation By Philip Giraldi, October 02, 2018
NAFTA 2.0 Is No Cause for Celebration By Brent Patterson, October 02, 2018
Phony trade war
Mexico -US -Canada NAFTA Trade Agreement Reached — A Phony Trade War! By Dr. Jack Rasmus, October 01, 2018
Venezuela’s Socialism…And Ours By Rep. Ron Paul, October 01, 2018
Tortured Solutions: Ecuador, the UK and Julian Assange’s Fate By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 29, 2018
Trump Regime Rage Against Sovereign Independent States By Stephen Lendman, September 27, 2018
Venezuela
The Foreign “Visible Hand” of the Market Exposed and Barred in Venezuela By Nino Pagliccia, September 27, 2018
Does Canada Support an Invasion of Venezuela? By Yves Engler, September 27, 2018
Salvador Allende: The Death of a President Who Lives On By Daina Caballero Trujillo, September 24, 2018
Historic: Too Much Winning. Puerto Rico in Ruins and the Grim Anniversary of Hurricane Maria. No Water, No Homes By Abby Zimet, September 21, 2018
NAFTA
Canada and the Renegotiation of NAFTA: What’s Happening with the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)? By Joyce Nelson, September 19, 2018
Coca-Cola and Nestlé to Acquire Private Ownership of the Largest Reserve of Water in South America? Unconfirmed Report By Amanda Froelich, September 19, 2018
International Law
The United States’ Disregard for International Law Is a Menace to Venezuela and Latin America By Nino Pagliccia, September 18, 2018
South America
South America’s “Made in USA” Growing Crises. Economic Destabilization of Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela By Dr. Jack Rasmus, September 16, 2018
Venezuelans March to Commemorate Allende, Oppose Coup Threat By Paul Dobson, September 14, 2018
September 11, 1973: Remembering Canada’s Support for the Right Wing Coup in Chile By Yves Engler, September 12, 2018
Venezuela Poses No ‘Threat to the World’— But WaPo’s Claim That It Does Is Dangerous By Joe Emersberger, September 12, 2018
Empire Journalism: Venezuela, the US and John McCain By Media Lens, September 10, 2018
Invasion and Interference: US Designs on Venezuela By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 07, 2018
The Burning Down of Brazil’s National Museum: A Capitalist Crime Against the Heritage of Humanity By Bill Van Auken, September 06, 2018
Brazil
The Burning Blaze of Neoliberalism in Brazil By Massoud Nayeri, September 06, 2018
Trump Accuses Cuba of “Sonic Attacks” against US Diplomats: Havana’s “Sonic Incidents” and the University of Edinburgh: The “40%” Mystery By Arnold August, September 04, 2018
International Day of the “Disappeared”. Washington’s “Dirty War” and Latin America’s “Desaparecidos” By Internationalist 360, September 03, 2018
Florida Senator Rubio and the Horrible Idea of Attacking Venezuela By Daniel Larison, September 03, 2018
Crashing Currency Chaos Spreads Across the Global South By Pepe Escobar, September 03, 2018
From Venezuela to McCain, Media and Human Rights Industry on Same Page By Joe Emersberger, September 01, 2018
Maduro
Maduro Wins Another Election, “Fraudulent and Anti-Democratic”, Canada Imposes Economic Sanctions By Asad Ismi, September 01, 2018