Latin America & Caribbean

Dilma Rousseff
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".
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...
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.
Mexico: Violence, Corruption and Inequality – AMLO to the Rescue? By Michael Roberts, July 30, 2018
The United States Is the Only Remaining Colonial Power By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 30, 2018
US Suddenly Buys More Ecuadorian Oil: Is Trump Also Buying Assange’s Arrest? By Whitney Webb, July 29, 2018
Misrepresenting the Truth in Nicaragua By Kevin Zeese, July 26, 2018
Cuba’s July 26, 1953 Moncada Attack Anniversary – An Opportunity for Reflection Today By Nino Pagliccia, July 26, 2018
Mexico’s New Populist President Considers Foreign Pipeline Plans Despite Indigenous Protests By Steve Horn, July 26, 2018
What Should “We” Do About Julian Assange? By Kim Petersen, July 24, 2018
The Expansion of U.S. Military Installations in Argentina and Their Implications for Argentine Sovereignty By Dr. Birsen Filip, July 24, 2018
Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the U.K. What Comes Next? By Glenn Greenwald, July 24, 2018
Violent Coup Fails in Nicaragua, US Continues Regime Change Efforts By Kevin Zeese, July 23, 2018
Two Cheers for Mexico’s AMLO: A Great Victory for the Left By Immanuel Wallerstein, July 23, 2018
Three Other Presidents Targeted for Befriending Russia By Jacob G. Hornberger, July 23, 2018
10 of the Most Lethal CIA Interventions in Latin America By Telesur, July 22, 2018
Ecuador’s Agenda: Squeezing and Surrendering Assange By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 22, 2018
Oil-rich Neuquén, Argentina – Site of a New U.S. Military Base By W.T. Whitney Jr., July 18, 2018
UK and Ecuador Conspiring to Extradite Assange to US By Stephen Lendman, July 17, 2018
Nicaragua: Terrorism as an Art of Demonstrating By Alex Anfruns, July 17, 2018
Empire of Misery: America Sees War as the Solution By Hugo Turner, July 13, 2018
Haiti Fights On. Rising Fuel Prices Trigger Mass Poverty By Philip Linder, July 13, 2018
In Wake of AMLO Victory, US Media Fear Chavismo and Hope for ‘Business-Friendly’ Change By Gregory Shupak, July 12, 2018
Correcting the Record: What Is Really Happening in Nicaragua? By Kevin Zeese and Nils McCune, July 11, 2018
Mexico: AMLO to Seek Negotiated Peace in Drug War By Telesur, July 09, 2018
Nicaragua, Unraveling a Plot By Francisco Arias Fernández, July 09, 2018
Washington’s Latest Myths, Lies and Oil Wars. “A Coherent Strategy to Promote Disruption in Key Oil Flows” By F. William Engdahl, July 08, 2018
Venezuela: Was Another World Possible? By Julia Buxton and Michael Welch, July 08, 2018
90 Years After Che Guevara’s Birth By Prof Susan Babbitt, July 07, 2018
The Balkanization of South America By Peter Koenig, July 06, 2018
Trump Pressed Aides, Latin American Leaders on US Invasion of Venezuela By Bill Van Auken, July 05, 2018
The Assange Affair: Washington Moves Against Rafael Correa, Is Ecuador’s New President Lenin Moreno a “US Asset”? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 05, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders Congratulate Mexico’s President-Elect AMLO By Telesur, July 04, 2018
The IMF Is Back in Argentina: “An Economic and Social Crisis, Even More Serious Than the Present One, Looms Large on the Horizon” By Eric Toussaint and Sergio Ferrari, July 04, 2018
Don’t Get Too Excited About the Mexican Silk Road By Andrew Korybko, July 03, 2018
Mexico: Α Historic Triumph of the Left But Will AMLO Keep His Promises? By Defend Democracy Press, July 03, 2018
Massive Victory for Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexican Elections By Rafael Azul, July 02, 2018
Breaking: Vote Buying. Fraud Rears Its Face Once Again in Mexico Election By Telesur, July 02, 2018
MEXICO Elections, July 1: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), Window of Opportunity Against 40 Years of Neoliberalism in Mexico? By Telesur, July 01, 2018
Obrador and Mexico’s Watershed Election By Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui, June 30, 2018
Trump Administration’s Anti-Venezuela Crusade Meets Fresh Obstacles in Brazil By Cira Pascual Marquina, June 29, 2018
Venezuela – Towards an Economy of Resistance By Peter Koenig, June 29, 2018
Mexican Elections: US Media Compares López Obrador to Donald Trump By Gregory Shupak, June 27, 2018
Immigration: Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions By Prof. James Petras, June 27, 2018
Nicaragua at the Barricades By Rebecca Gordon, June 26, 2018
Assange and Truth: The Deeper (Harder) Issue By Prof Susan Babbitt, June 22, 2018
Look Deeper: Child Detention and the US’s Paramilitary Politics Abroad By Dr. John Buell, June 22, 2018
Violence in Nicaragua: US-Orchestrated Coup Attempt? By Stephen Lendman, June 18, 2018
Desperate Asylum Seekers Are Being Turned Away by U.S. Border Agents Claiming There’s “No Room” By Debbie Nathan, June 18, 2018
‘We Are No Longer Your Backyard’: Bolivia’s Evo Morales Condemns US Interventionism in Venezuela, Latin America By Telesur, June 17, 2018
The Protest Movement in Nicaragua: Manipulated and Manufactured Evidence By Camilo Mejia, June 16, 2018
Dilma Rousseff
Lula’s Manifesto to the People of Brazil By Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, June 12, 2018
Why Venezuela and Syria Cannot Fall By Andre Vltchek, June 12, 2018
International Law
US Media Urge Coup d’Etat in Venezuela By Stephen Lendman, June 09, 2018
Venezuela: Vanguard of a New World. Iran to Follow in the Same Footsteps? By Peter Koenig, June 08, 2018
Argentinian Footballers Cancel Match with Israel, Infuriating Netanyahu By Stephen Lendman, June 07, 2018
Israel Scores Painful Own Goal in Run-up to the World Cup. Argentina Cancels “Friendly” Match with Israel By James M. Dorsey, June 07, 2018
Latin America and the Globalization of NATO: Colombia’s Presidential Run-off Will Decide Its “Global Partnership” with NATO By Andrew Korybko, June 07, 2018
U.S. “Fingerprints” Are All Over Nicaragua’s Bloody Civil Unrest By Mac Slavo, June 06, 2018
Humanitarian Crisis: Thousands of Hurricane Maria Deaths in Puerto Rico. New Study By Stephen Lendman, June 05, 2018
Trudeau Endorses Trump: Canadian Sanctions against Venezuela Violate ‘International Law’ By Telesur, June 03, 2018
Neoliberalism and the Dynamics of Capitalist Development in Latin America By Prof. James Petras and Prof. Henry Veltmeyer, June 02, 2018
Rebellion or Counter-Revolution: Made in US in Nicaragua? By Achim Rödner, June 02, 2018
Colombia’s New NATO Partnership ‘a Threat to Peace,’ Venezuela Warns By Morning Star, May 29, 2018
Maduro
Venezuela “Defeats U.S.” in the Election, Now Must Build Independent Economy By Kevin Zeese, May 28, 2018
Venezuela Election Observer: ‘The Majority Have Chosen the Path They Want for Venezuela’ By Eulalia Reyes de Whitney and Federico Fuentes, May 27, 2018
“Coloured Revolutions” and Populist Uprisings By Michael Welch, F. William Engdahl, and Stephen Sefton, May 27, 2018
Is Julian Assange About to be Arrested? By True Publica, May 26, 2018
“Ugly Canadians” Active in Brazil. The 1964 Military Coup and the Overthrow of Brazilian Democracy By Yves Engler, May 24, 2018
Elections in Venezuela: Democratic, Fair and Transparent By Nino Pagliccia, May 24, 2018
Maduro
Ten Attempts to Destabilize the Re-elected Venezuelan Government of President Maduro By Iramsy Peraza Forte, May 24, 2018
Brazil’s Landless Movement (MST): The Unity of Progressive Forces, Build A Popular Project for Brazil By MST - Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, May 23, 2018
Nicolas Maduro Reelected President of Venezuela By Stephen Lendman, May 21, 2018
Dialogue on Culture and Society. The Voice of a Brazilian Artist By Marcela Florido and Abayomi Azikiwe, May 20, 2018
Venezuela’s Highly Unusual Presidential Election By Gregory Wilpert, May 20, 2018
Hidroituango Dam, Colombia’s Largest, Could Break By Jarrod Demir, May 18, 2018
Conspiracy Emerges to Push Julian Assange into British and US Hands By Mike Head, May 17, 2018
Why the Bolivian City of Sucre Is in Lockdown By Bethany Rielly, May 16, 2018
Why is Venezuela’s Buying Foreign Oil for Latin American Allies? By Andrew Korybko, May 16, 2018
Ecuador to Expel Assange from Its London Embassy? By Stephen Lendman, May 14, 2018
Ecuador Hints It May Hand Over Julian Assange to Britain and the US By James Cogan, May 13, 2018
May Day in Havana. Enthusiasm and Expectations By Prof Susan Babbitt, May 12, 2018
Murder and Violence Plague Mexico’s Elections By Kent Paterson, May 11, 2018