‘Haiti is like a house infested with termites’: Max Bourjolly, the resolute communist activist recalls
- Monique Clesca
“Around midnight, I heard someone say, 'The rowboat's here.’ They entered my cell in the prison of the barracks of the Tonton Macoute in Les Cayes. They put a bag over my head. Then they put me in a second bag that reaches to my feet ...
Rape of black and native women left its mark on the Brazilian genomes
- Maria Clara Rossini
The first results of the most comprehensive genetic sequencing project ever carried out in Brazil show that genes inherited exclusively by maternal means are generally black and native, and that genes transmitted by fathers are almost all from European ...
“Our struggle is against all kinds of submission and against the sole colonial, patriarchal thought”
Inauguration Speech of Bolivian Vice President David Choquehuanca
- teleSUR
David Choquehaunca hold this speech on Nov. 8 in La Paz at the inauguration ceremony of Luis Arce as President-elect of the Plurinational State of Bolivia
With the permission of our gods, of our older brothers and of our Pachamama, of our ancestors, ...
How Joe Biden’s privatization plans helped doom Latin America and fuel the migration crisis
- Max Blumenthal
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden boasted of his role in transforming Colombia and Central America through ambitious economic and security programs. Colombians and Hondurans tell The Grayzone about the damage his plans did to their societies.
US ...
Rebellion on the Monroist Animal Farm
- Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein
On September 12, in Washington, Mauricio Claver-Carone was elected president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Trump's confidant, a Cuban from Miami, was the only candidate. In the electronic voting via teleconference, 16 of the voters abstained. ...
Colombia: Newspeak and “that old bat”
- Reinaldo Spitaletta
The impoverishment of language is yet another tactic used by those in power. It involves a progressive debasing of the content of words, reducing them to little more than a signifier without a signified. A piecemeal dissection. As a result, labels tend ...
Brazil’s money laundering scandal from hell
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
With no one eager to talk about the revelations, the question is what will ex-president Lula do about it
Two decades after a political earthquake, a powerful aftershock that should be rocking Brazil apart is being met with thunderous silence. ...
Brazilian delivery app workers decide on another strike on July 25th
- Brasil de Fato
Similar to the strike on July 1st, their main demand is better working conditions
Image from the first delivery app worker strike on July 1st, which took to the streets from São Paulo to Brazilia - Photo Pedro Strapasolas | Brasil de Fato
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Ten curiosities in the time of coronavirus
- Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein
The confrontation with the coronavirus pandemic has shown up a curious conduct by certain prominent actors. It is worth recording some of these to better understand the position of each of them in the fight against the virus:
1. China has sent humanitarian ...
Colombia and USA, the two points of the labyrinth: Drugs, corruption and politics
- Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein
There is perhaps no other “commercial activity” where the overriding law of capitalism, that of offer and demand, expresses itself with such precision as in the narcotics trade. The demand and offer of drugs have been calibrated in an optimum ...
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