An unholy alliance
- Sandra Weiss
Across Latin America, the military's gaining power and moving into politics – with support of Christian fundamentalist groups
The government and the military got caught up in a struggle for power – in a country that’s generally considered ...
Released Lula in for greatest fight of his life
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Better not mess with the former Brazilian president; Putin and Xi are his real top allies in the Global Left
He’s back. With a bang.
Only two days after his release from a federal prison in Curitiba, southern Brazil, following a narrow 6× ...
Stalking the endangered wax palm in Colombia
- Jennie Erin Smith
Colombia’s national tree, the wax palm, is endangered. Now, with decades of guerrilla war in retreat, scientists are rediscovering vast forests and racing to study and protect them.
In 1991 Rodrigo Bernal, a botanist who specializes in palms, ...
Illegal loggers kill Brazilian indigenous forest guardian, wound another in ambush
- Brasil de Fato
“Bolsonaro government has indigenous blood on their hands,” pan-indigenous association APIB wrote
Paulo Paulino Guajajara was a member of an indigenous group known as “Guardians of the Forest” - Créditos: Sarah Shenker/Survival ...
Burn, Neoliberalism, Burn
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Neoliberalism is – literally – burning. And from Ecuador to Chile, South America, once again, is showing the way. Against the vicious, one-size-fits-all IMF austerity prescription, which deploys weapons of mass economic destruction to smash ...
Bolivia at crossroads – Choosing between continued success or handover to US hegemony
- Peter Koenig
“I don’t want to be the best President in the history of Bolivia, I want to be the President of the best Bolivia in history.” So proclaimed Evo Morales in a pre-election rally a few days before general elections, today, 20 October ...
Lenín versus Lenin in Ecuador
- Carlos Aznárez
Insurrection has always been a weapon of the humble people — the revolutionary Franz Fanon's “wretched of the earth.” It is a necessary alternative and a mirror through which one must reflect — when the moment comes, when ...
A massive people’s strike explodes in Ecuador
- Michael Otto - Zoila Ramirez
Oct. 10 — The great people’s strike has exploded in Ecuador.
Quito, 10 October. Photo MARTIN BERNETTI AFP
Today is the eighth day that road traffic in Ibarra, a city with a population of 250,000, has been completely ...
General strike rocks Ecuador
- Michael Otto - Zoila Ramirez
Oct. 7 — Support for a call for a general strike in Ecuador has grown quickly in the past few days, bringing the country to the brink of a change in government.
Credit: Telesur
The latest upsurge in mass struggle began after the unpopular ...
Moratorium and sky-high inflation: Macri’s ‘laissez-faire kablooey’ in Argentine
- Achille Lollo
On August 23, just two months before the presidential elections, Argentine’s Minister of Finance Hernán Lacunza and President of the Argentine Central Bank Guido Sandleris informed the IMF and the creditor banks that President Macri was ...
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