Source: The Nation They’re peacefully resisting US-style neoliberal measures intended to crush the unions—a backbone of Mexico’s social-justice movements. Update: On Sunday, June 19, federal police in Oaxaca fired on teachers and supporters in the […]
Source: Dissent Magazine This article is part of a forum on the lessons of Latin America’s “pink tide” for democratic socialists. To read the rest of the forum, click here. In his essay “The Path […]
Source: The Nation Washington now has compliant compradores in power in Argentina and Brazil—and perhaps soon in Venezuela. Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s recently deposed president, calls it a coup. Many, perhaps most, of the countries in […]
Source: TowardFreedom.com Last week a research wing of the International Monetary Fund came out with a report admitting that neoliberalism has been a failure. The report, entitled, “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” is hopefully a sign of the […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Reynaldo Bignone sentenced to 20 years in prison for his part in running Operation Condor in 1970s and 80s Argentina’s last military dictator, 88-year-old former general Reynaldo Bignone, was today sentenced […]
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 […]
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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