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The left in Canada and the U.S. is increasingly divided on the question of how best to express solidarity with the Global South. When it comes to journalism, the question relates to whose voices we include and when we do so.
Some on the left think we should seek to show solidarity primarily (...)
Over 400 years ago, long before Woodrow Wilson or Vladimir Lenin, the Christian humanist Bartolomé de Las Casas, known as the “Defender of the Indians,” developed a theory of the right of nations to self-determination that can be applied to many other countries today, including Ukraine.
Russia’s (...)
The United States has long dominated Latin America, but today—in fact for the last twenty years—it is being challenged by China, which has invested billions and established political and some military relationships with many governments in the region.
The U.S. took control of Latin America (...)
Recently there has been talk of a return to so-called “progressive” governments. There are several possible ways of describing such governments and we could have a long discussion around the use of the term “progressive”. Using this designation makes it possible to describe a trust rather to the (...)
In one of the regions contributing most to the global increase in the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths, amid health chaos, unemployment, hunger and escalating inequality, workers, students and young people in the urban peripheries, peasants, small village dwellers, black and indigenous (...)
“Look! Our cameras are filming you.”
“Ojo!”, or “look!” in Portuguese, is a Chilean expression for “attention!”. And those who arrive in downtown Santiago quickly see government posters demanding attention with the message “our cameras are watching you,” a failed threat to the thousands of informal (...)
From Chile to Ecuador, a wave of revolts against neoliberal austerity has swept through Latin America. Elections have brought the Peronists back to office in Argentina, and political crisis to Bolivia under Evo Morales. Brazil remains under the shadow of Jair Bolsonaro, but how enduring is his (...)
On May 5, 2019 I spoke with Argentine economist Claudio Katz in his Buenos Aires apartment. We discussed themes from his last two books, Neoliberalismo, neodesarrollismo, socialismo (Neoliberalism, neodevelopmentalism, socialism, 2016) and La teoría de la dependencia, cincuenta años después (...)
July 2018, Havana. On the podium of Heads of State: Miguel Díaz Canal, Raúl Castro (President-Elect and President of Cuba), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Salvador Sánchez Cerén (El Salvador) opened the sessions of the XXIV São Paulo Forum (SPF), the annual summit of Latin (...)
A thoughtful essay on Latin left politics from a social democratic perspective
Conservatives now control Latin America’s leading economies, but the region’s leftists can still look to Uruguay for direction.
Last December’s election of Sebastián Piñera, of the National Renewal party, to the (...)
The representatives of social and popular organizations of Peru, Latin America and the Caribbean, met in Lima, Peru from April 10 to 14, 2018 to discuss the political, social and economic reality of Our America.
We, the representatives of social and popular organizations of Peru, Latin (...)
Four land defenders are murdered every week. Latin American governments’ economic growth model prizes profit at all cost.
As the Guardian and Global Witness revealed that almost four environmental defenders were murdered every week in 2017, War on Want learned of two more killings through our (...)
By the end of 2015, researcher and teacher Franck Gaudichaud published in Chile the book “Latin America: Liberation in progress” [[http://www.thedawn-news.org/2016/01/20/latin-america-a-look-at-the-political-moment-of-backflow], which compiles texts from different authors on several political (...)
In this ambitious and compelling overview of the strategic and programmatic issues at stake in South America today, Argentine political economist Claudio Katz expands on many of the observations he made in an earlier interview while critically analyzing contrasting approaches to development (...)
More than 40 years after the coup d’état that defeated the Chilean road to socialism and 30 years since the foundation of the largest social movement on the continent, the Movimiento de trabajadores rurales sin tierra (MST - Movement of Landless Rural Workers) of Brazil; 20 years since the (...)
When visibility is minimal because powerful storms cloud the perception of reality, it may be appropriate to enlarge one’s view, to climb slopes to look for broader observation points, in order to discern the context in which we move. In these times, when the world is crossing through multiple (...)
Eduardo Galeano, the world-renowned leftist Uruguayan journalist and writer made famous with the publication in 1971 of his book The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, died today at the age of 74 in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he lived. Long admired as a (...)
From 2010 to 2013, US authorities made agreements with banks, not to prosecute them in the home mortgage and illegal foreclosures scandal. Instead, they merely had to pay a small fine. Since the outbreak of the crisis in 2006-2007, more than 14 million families have been evicted from their (...)
With different nuances and variants, Latin America’s “progressive” governments are no longer questioning the myth of progress, are practicing intensive extractivism, are resigned to corruption and favor hyper-presidentialism. What’s Left in this?
Governments of the new Left have been dominating (...)
Eduardo Galeano is regarded as one of Latin America’s fiercest voices of social conscience. Yet he insists that language — its secrets, mysteries, and masks — always comes first.
“The division of labor among nations,” Eduardo Galeano proclaimed in the opening sentence of Open Veins of Latin (...)
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