Latin America

By Declan Hayes | Strategic Culture Foundation | May 27, 2023 So, Henry Kisisinger has done it. He has emulated Vietnam’s legendary General Võ Nguyên Giáp by reaching 100 years of age and not out. Congratulations! Happy birthday! Roll out the red carpet and give him a 100 gun salute! Oh say can you see, by the […]

By Nick Corbishley – naked capitalism – May 26, 2023 The ostensible goal of the operation is to provide “support and assistance to the Special Operations of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and National Police of Peru,” including in regions recently engulfed in violence. Unbeknown, it seems, to most people in Peru and […]

RT | May 24, 2023 Henry Kissinger, the foreign policy eminence grise who has advised half a dozen presidents, has caused the deaths of over 3 million people, according to an Intercept report published Tuesday in observation of the realpolitik strategist’s 100th birthday. While critics of the Nixon-era secretary of state and national security adviser […]

Even leftist governments in Latin America have failed to rein in the environmentally destructive excesses of the resource extraction economy. Indigenous and environmental activists from Ecuador to Bolivia say it's only going to get worse.

Lasso’s decision comes a day after the National Assembly began an impeachment hearing against him, which could have removed him from office.

Tales of the American Empire | May 11, 2023 The American empire has over 1000 overseas military bases with between a dozen and 45,000 personnel. The United States spends more to operate its overseas military bases each year than China spends on its entire military. Several of these bases have become worthless yet remain open … … Continue reading →

In stark contrast to previous years of anti-government protests, Colombians are now rallying to support their new president—and push his administration to go further.

And the Washington foreign policy establishment still eats them up By Rick Sterling | CovertAction Magazine | May 1, 2023 In 1975, Philip Agee published his book Inside the Company: CIA Diary. In the introduction, he wrote: “When I joined the CIA, I believed in the need for its existence. After twelve years with the agency […]

RT | April 29, 2023 The West has failed to isolate Russia, with the majority of the world still interested in maintaining good relations with Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. He also argued that the trend toward multipolarity is irreversible, whether former colonial powers like it or not. Addressing the World Online Conference […]

RT | April 27, 2023 Russia is on course to record its highest seasonal export rate of petroleum products in seven years despite Western oil sanctions that took effect in February, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing tanker tracking data from Vortexa. According to the report, shipments of clean petroleum products, including diesel-type fuel, amounted to […]

Indigenous Zapotec farmers in Mexico's Tehuantepec Isthmus say wind energy multinational corporations are polluting the water, trampling on local land rights, and even turning to violence to achieve their aims.

Join Lee Camp and Ben Norton as they delve into the changing world order, the rebellion of Latin America against Western hegemony, the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, and much more.

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By Lucas Leiroz | April 18, 2023 Lula’s trip to China was marked by several signals about what may be his foreign policy in his third term. In his speeches, Lula suggested that he will continue to bet on partnerships with the global south and emphasized his criticism of organizations linked to or controlled by […]

By Weimin Chen – Mises Wire – 04/10/2023 Following the violent attack on Americans in the Mexican border city of Matamoros in early March, South Carolina Republican senator Lindsey Graham stated that he was prepared to get tough and introduce legislation to set the stage for US military intervention in Mexico. The move would be […]

The ban on Afghan poppy cultivation is set to hit Europe’s heroin supplies By Rachel Marsden | RT | April 11, 2023 It’s been nearly a year since the Taliban banned Afghan poppy farming used for the production of opioids. The impact of the move is set to hit global markets sometime soon, given the […]

By Drago Bosnic | April 11, 2023 The political West is always “shocked” by how deeply unpopular it is in the Global South and cannot comprehend why it “dares” to refuse to side with them against Russia and/or China. This lesson is something the political elites of the United States and its numerous satellite states […]

Rather than address the root causes of violence, President Nayib Bukele’s prolonged state of emergency militarizes Salvadoran society and exacerbates state persecution of vulnerable communities.

By Ted Snider | The Libertarian Institute | April 4, 2023 In March, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where they not only “reaffirm[ed] the special nature of the Russia-China partnership,” but “signed a statement on deepening the strategic partnership and bilateral ties which are entering a new era.” As Xi […]

BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | INDIAN PUNCHLINE | APRIL 4, 2023  The shock oil production cuts from May outlined by the OPEC+ on Sunday essentially means that eight key OPEC countries decided to join hands with Russia to reduce oil production, messaging that OPEC and OPEC+ are now back in control of the oil market. No single […]

A resurgence of mass movements in the region has returned the left to power from Mexico to Brazil—but the struggle for political hegemony is far from over.

By Andrew Korybko | March 24, 2023 Bloomberg cited an unnamed Biden Administration official on Thursday to report that “the US is worried about being backed into a corner over the Chinese proposal. Regardless of the US reservations, dismissing it outright could let China argue to other nations that are weary of the war — and […]

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network | March 18, 2023 Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses its solidarity with Dr. Ahmed Shehadeh after Panamanian immigration authorities at Tocumen International Airport detained and deported Shehadeh, the head of the Brazilian-Palestinian Institute (Ibraspal), on Thursday, March 16. The Panamanian officials confiscated and held his Brazilian passport while he […]

BY W. T. WHITNEY | COUNTERPUNCH | MARCH 10, 2023 Revived democratic struggle in Peru is well along into a second act. There was the parliamentary coup December 7 that removed democratically elected President Pedro Castillo and the “First Taking of Lima” in mid-January, embittered and excluded Peruvians occupied Lima and faced violent repression. Then […]

By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | March 9, 2023 The New York Times recently carried an interesting article about the death in 1973 of Pablo Neruda, one of the most renowned poets in the world. Neruda was a Chilean citizen. He was also a strong supporter of Chilean president Salvador Allende, who the Chilean national-security establishment, with the […]

'Out there they call us riff raff. But we are really organized. And we are able to build much more than people out there believe.'