Originally published May 23, 2016 Source: The Intercept Brazil today awoke to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual […]
Source: Jacobin Brazil’s interim government is orchestrating a stunning transfer of power to the country’s elites. Brazil’s new interim president Michel Temer’s motto seems to be: “Injure all at once, and perhaps, one day, return […]
The new Latin American left, in all its shades of red or pink, has lately been experiencing perhaps its roughest string of months since it came to power. From embattled Venezuela to the possible political […]
Guatemala’s war and counter-insurgency have continued through other means. Today social and indigenous movements face free speech and legal challenges that threaten to tear them apart by dismantling leadership and organizational structures, and sending movement bases into disarray.
The closing down of a community-run radio in eastern rural Paraguay is the last example of repression in a country where 1,6% of its population controls 80% of its agricultural land.
Originally published May 11, 2016 Source: The Intercept In 2002, Brazil’s left-of-center Workers’ Party (PT) ascended to the presidency when Lula da Silva won in a landslide over the candidate of the center-right PSDB party […]
Source: Jacobin Magazine Twenty-two years after their formation, the Zapatistas continue to resist Mexican state repression. In February, a federal judge in Mexico admitted that he had no choice but to accept that the state’s […]
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