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.
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
Costa Rica’s New President Promises 100% Green Energy, Aims to be First Such Nation By Prof. Juan Cole, May 11, 2018
The Family-Party-State Nexus in Nicaragua By Trevor Evans, May 09, 2018
Venezuela and Palestine Start Bi-National Bank with Petros By Telesur, May 08, 2018
US to Separate All Families Charged with Illegal Border Crossing By Patrick Martin, May 08, 2018
Trump Disregards Caravan Migrants’ Legal Right to Apply for Asylum By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, May 07, 2018
Five Questions and Answers Concerning the Presidential Elections in Cuba By Salim Lamrani, May 05, 2018
May 20 Elections: The Structure of Venezuela’s Electoral System By Wilfredo Perez Bianco and Nino Pagliccia, May 05, 2018
US Stresses Interventionist Plan in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela By Telesur, May 04, 2018
The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Is Unravelling and “It’s All the US’ Fault” By Andrew Korybko, May 03, 2018
Banking on a ‘Shithole’: US-led Racial Capitalism in Haiti Began Long Before Trump By Prof. Peter James Hudson, May 01, 2018
Dilma Rousseff
Brazil: Workers’ Party Announces Coordination Team for Lula’s Presidential Campaign By Cristiane Sampaio, April 30, 2018
Escaping Violence and Poverty: Trump Administration Turns Away Immigrant Caravan Requesting Asylum at US-Mexico Border By A R Jerral, April 30, 2018
Imperialism and Capitalism: Rethinking an Intimate Relationship By Prof. James Petras and Prof. Henry Veltmeyer, April 30, 2018
Latin America vs. Israel: Paraguay Announces Plans to Move Tel-Aviv Embassy to Jerusalem By Telesur, April 28, 2018
The CIA’s Dirty War in Nicaragua By Timothy Alexander Guzman, April 24, 2018
Nicaragua: Next in Line for Regime Change? By Tortilla Con Sal, April 24, 2018
Watching Syria, Remembering Nicaragua By Richard Becker, April 24, 2018
Twenty-seven Protesters Dead Amid Sandinista Government Crackdown in Nicaragua By Andrea Lobo, April 24, 2018
Commemorating the Independence of Venezuela By Nino Pagliccia, April 23, 2018
Latin America in the Time of Trump: US Domination and The “Neo-Monroe Doctrine” By Prof. James Petras, April 23, 2018
Don’t Count on Belize Giving up Its Land to Guatemala Anytime Soon By Andrew Korybko, April 22, 2018
Cuba Chooses a New President By Stephen Lendman, April 19, 2018
Climate Change Brings Transformations in Cuba By Yisell Rodríguez Milán and Danae González Del Toro, April 17, 2018
Prisoner of Pinochet: No Triumph of the Human Spirit By Prof Susan Babbitt, April 16, 2018
Evo Morales: “The Greatest Threat Against Freedom, Against Democracy, Against Mother Earth and Against Multilateralism Is the United States” By Internationalist 360, April 16, 2018
Video: The 2018 Elections and Democracy in Revolutionary Cuba By Juan Carlos Rodriguez Diaz, Yamil Martinez Marrero, and Michael Welch, April 13, 2018
Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers’ Cooperatives By Carolina de Assis, April 10, 2018
Swiss Mining Corporations in Flagrant Violation of Human Rights – Swiss Government Complicit By Peter Koenig, April 09, 2018
Dilma Rousseff
Brazil’s Political Crisis: The Meaning of Lula’s Imprisonment By Felipe Demier, April 08, 2018
The Struggle Against Illegitimate Public and Private Debt Which Are at the Core of the Capitalist System By Eric Toussaint, April 07, 2018
Venezuela Rejects Swiss Sanctions and Panama Accusations of Funding WMD and Terrorism By Paul Dobson, April 05, 2018
The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop By John Pilger, April 02, 2018
Elections and Democracy in Revolutionary Cuba: Canada National Speaking Tour, March 21-April 4 By Global Research News, April 01, 2018
Warfare Tools
Venezuela Raises the Minimum Wage. “It’s an Offense” Says the ILO, It Goes against the Rights of Corporations By Nino Pagliccia, March 31, 2018
Social Activism Funded by Global Capitalism, Serves the Neoliberal World Order. The 2018 World Social Forum (WSF) in Salvador, Brazil By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 28, 2018
Teachers’ Rebellion Spreads on Four Continents By Eric London, March 28, 2018
Reparations for Colonialism and Genocide By Colonialism Reparation, March 27, 2018
Colombia Scraps Amazon Highway Plans Due to Deforestation Concerns By Taran Volckhausen, March 26, 2018
Bolivia vs. Chile: The Regional Consequences of Liberalism vs. Realism By Andrew Korybko, March 25, 2018
US Is Stepping on the Cuban Rake Again By Dmitry Bokarev, March 22, 2018
Cuba–U.S. Relations: Obama and Beyond By Edgar Göll, March 20, 2018
Keeping Power with the People: Puerto Rico’s Energy Future By Sean Sweeney, March 19, 2018
Marielle Killing: An Imminent Military Coup in Brazil? By Edu Montesanti, March 19, 2018