The new Trump administration has made NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States, a major issue in its relations with its two neighbours. Recently, Trump has threatened to tear it up. With his standard nationalist demagogy, he claims “previous (...)
Pink Tide governments delivered much-needed reforms. But they also defanged the movements that brought them to power.
When Ecuador gained independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century, the country did not launch a social revolution that would overturn colonial society’s racism and (...)
SINCE THE BEGINNING of the 21st century, the Left has won elections in most Latin American countries, in a powerful wave of popular rejection of the disastrous neoliberal policies of the previous regimes. One must however distinguish between two quite different sorts of left governments:
1) (...)
‘Venezuela defines the future of the progressive cycle’ An interview with Claudio Katz
Introduction
Two recent events — the second-round victory on November 22 of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina’s presidential election, and the December 6 victory of the right-wing Democratic (...)
This is the first part of a three part article.
Has Latin America gained autonomy or reinforced its dependent condition in the last decade? Broadened or reduced its margin of sovereignty? Confronted the global economic crisis with greater protection or greater helplessness?
I. Economy and (...)
Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements by Raúl Zibechi, translated by Ramor Ryan, forward by Dawn Paley. AK Press, 2012, 363 pages, $19.95 paperback.
AS THE JULY, 2013 issue of Latin American Perspectives makes clear, the reinvention of the Left from “below” (...)
An important summit of global significance, held in Brazil May 16-20, has largely passed below the radar of most media outlets, including many left and progressive sources.
This summit was not the usual type, involving heads of states and business leaders.
Instead, it was a gathering of (...)
Hugo Chavez was, even with his errors and deficiencies as large as his historical figure, by far the most radical and steadfast among all the so-called “progressive” governments of Latin America and of all the politicians of this sector on our continent. He was able to evolve, to feel the popular (...)
A compelling contribution to our understanding of the challenges facing Latin America’s ‘pink tide’:
Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, and Federico Fuentes, Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Socialism. Fernwood Publishing and Zed Books, 2013. Reviewed by Richard (...)
Dawn Paley probes beneath the surface of the drug war in Colombia and Mexico. She explores the mechanisms employed, reports on the economic and human devastation, analyzes the possible reasons for continuing the war and suggests further areas of inquiry. .
IN BOTH THE United States and Canada (...)
The NATO system of hypocrisy and sadism is matched by a financial economy dependent on taxpayer-funded bailouts, crude covert market-rigging and money laundering of all kinds. The NATO regimes’ growing criminality marks the accelerating pace of their decline. (...)
In Europe, governments are trying to prevent contagion and solidarity between European workers and the Arab masses in revolt by brandishing the scarecrow of Islamism. In Latin America, it is the Venezuelan and Cuban progressive leaders themselves who are trying to isolate these rising (...)
This past September, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drew criticism for comparing the current situation in Mexico to “Colombia 20 years ago.” Most of that criticism questioned whether the analogy was appropriate or whether the statement was an unnecessary affront to a close U.S. ally, (...)
In spite of a generally favourable situation given the existence of progressive governments and dynamic social movements, worrying signs can be perceived in Latin America. The recent attempted coup in Ecuador on 30 September 2010, and the election results in Venezuela four days earlier, are (...)
The already bad relations between Venezuela and Colombia took a turn for the worse after the accusations made by the outgoing Uribe government’s OAS representative, Luis Hoyos, who charged the Venezuelan government with harbouring Colombian guerrillas (1,500) and allowing guerrilla camps (85) (...)
During the years of the “hot war” in Latin America, Israel had a notorious lethal presence in the region. They sent mercenaries, intelligence advisors, torture instructors, and people versed in other savage interrogation methods and selective killings. Israel also sent thousands of tons of (...)
In September Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, delivered on an electoral promise and refused to renew Washington’s decade-old, rent-free lease on an air base outside the Pacific coast town of Manta, which for the past ten years has served as the Pentagon’s main South American outpost. The (...)
U.S. aggressiveness towards the Venezuelan, Bolivian, and Ecuadorian governments has increased in response to diminishing U.S. influence over the Latin American and Caribbean area, which Washington has been blaming on Hugo Chávez in particular (and also on Cuba, but Cuba is a much older story). (...)
Paper presented in Caracas on October 8, 2008 at the School of Planning for the international seminar titled “Responses from the South to the World Economic Crisis”. The other speakers on the panel were: Hugo Chavez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Haiman El Troudi, Minister of (...)
Conference at the Socialism 2009 organized by the Center for Economic and Social Change, Chicago, July 20th 2009.
Thank you for this invitation and congratulations for this conference In my opinion, the effect of the world crisis in Latin America pose different types of discussion. The (...)
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