The sanctions are a crime: in face of Covid-19, we demand the immediate termination of the economic blockade against the people of Venezuela
- Various Authors - Autores varios - Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
Today, before the global pandemic of COVID19 - better known as coronavirus - declared by the World Health Organization; the people of Venezuela continues being the victim of an economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States ...
Venezuela, France and Coronavirus
- Romain Migus
The media hyenas had predicted a health disaster. "The health system is absolutely incapable of coping," announced Le Figaro. Le Monde mentions "a health system devastated by the coronavirus" while AFP sneers: "garlic and lemon ...
Chilean football, between repression and rebellion
- Jérôme Duval Жером Дюваль جيروم دوڥال
Again, the history of football is closely linked to Chilean politics. Let’s go back in time. A few days after the September 11, 1973 coup d’etat against Salvador Allende, the Soviet Union refused to play against Chile in the Estadio nacional ...
Argentina and the longed-for turnaround that ended four years of savage capitalism
- Carlos Aznárez
There are years that seem to last so long that according to the popular saying are like a century. Argentina has not been exempt from this comparison in going through this difficult 2019 that has just ended.
#Wecouldn't
Such has been the burden of ...
Devices draining the desert: how demand for electric cars and smartphones is drying up the Atacama desert in Chile
- Nikolaj Houmann Mortensen
Lithium is essential for the batteries in our phones, our computers and the skyrocketing number of electric vehicles that are often seen as playing a key role in the green energy transition
With half the world’s lithium reserves, Chile has ...
What failed in Venezuela, succeeded in Bolivia: the playbook was the same
- Marco Teruggi
The different steps followed by the coup d’état in Bolivia can be matched with what the right wing is desperately trying to pull off in Venezuela. Both processes have unfolded according to what appears to be a similar playbook. An analysis ...
Open letter to Luis Almagro
- Jorge Majfud
Mr. Luis Almagro, Secretary of the Organization of American States:
Considering Your repeated failures and Your even more insistent abuses of functions as "Secretary" of the States, we ask You to do well and for the little honour that You ...
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, ...
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