Latin America
Obama’s Visit to Latin America and the Political Conjuncture
After Havana, Obama came to Argentina. The world’s chief representative of vulture imperialism used his trip to reinforce the steps being taken to advance the United States’ “return” to Latin America. Of course, it never left – but today, the U.S. is finding opportunities presented by South America’s landscape of economic crises and reactionary winds to recuperate greater authority in the region.
Eduardo Molina
March 31, 2016OBAMA: APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED
Within days of releasing her biographical documentary film about recovering her identity, Maria Victoria Moyano Artigas responds to Obama.
Left Voice
March 30, 2016“We Fight Against Racism: Justice for Massar Ba!”
Senegalese human rights activist Massar Ba was murdered earlier this month in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. He was found on the street, brutally beaten. Activists and members of the Senegalese community protest and demand an investigation.
Agrupación Xango
March 29, 2016Letter to the XXIII Congress of the Partido Obrero
In the lead-up to the Congress of the Partido Obrero (PO - Workers’ Party) being held this weekend, the leadership of the Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS – Socialist Workers’ Party) sent the following proposals to their comrades in the Frente de Izquierda y Trabajadores (FIT - Left and Workers’ Front).
Left Voice
March 29, 2016We’ll Take All the Plazas
Around 6 thousand people marched with the PTS to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the military coup.
Tre Kwon
March 25, 2016The Case for a Constitutional Assembly
An interview with Diana Assunção, a militant of the Revolutionary Workers Movement (MRT) in Brazil, on the current political crisis and what it means for the left.
Esquerda Diário
March 24, 2016The Brazilian Crisis in 10 Points
What you need to know about Brazil’s current situation.
Tre Kwon
March 20, 2016Bolivia After the Referendum: Evo Morales loses bid for fourth term
This past February 21st, Evo Morales, who has served as the Bolivian president since 2006, lost a national referendum which would have allowed him a fourth consecutive term. Morales had sought to change the Bolivian constitution in order to stand for re-election in the 2020 elections, opening the possibility for him to be president for 18 years in a row.
Valeria Molina
March 9, 2016Worker Struggles in Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez has sadly earned its fame as the capital of feminicide. With the assembly plant boom during the nineties, Juárez became one of the worst cities for a woman to live in. Roberto Bolaño’s hellish images from La parte de los crímenes in 2666 about a detective’s pilgrimage to document chauvinist violence at the border in the desert of Santa Teresa have undoubtedly become a reality.
Sergio Moissen
February 29, 2016Microcephaly, dengue and the collapse of public health in Brazil
Working families and poor people are the victims of diseases that need not exist. Thousands of cases of microcephaly and chikungunya, along with hundreds of thousands of cases of dengue, resulting in record deaths, are three diseases seemingly brought about by the same mosquito and spread mainly in poor communities because of successive governments’ abandonment of public health. They govern for the rich, and the poor suffer the consequences.
Gilson Dantas
February 26, 2016