Category: Democracies

Milei’s Fire Sale of the Patagonia and the Mapuche people’s fight for life

April 4, 2025

By Laura Carlsen Some 40 people form a circle on the dusty, late-summer grass. Following days of uncertainty and fear, cut off from most […]

Milei’s Government Faces the Winds of Failure in Argentina

April 1, 2025

By Ariela Ruiz Caro Last November, Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the IMF, met with President Javier Milei during the Summit of the […]

Back to the Future: Milei’s Argentina again seeks IMF debt to stabilize currency

April 1, 2025

By Tony Phillips In 2019 Argentina’s future tweeter-in-chief, Javier Milei, was a mere deputy in Congress when he tweeted: Fast-forward less than half a […]

Highway Heist in Honduras: How Corporations Fleece Regular People in Impoverished Countries

March 31, 2025

Extraordinary corporate privileges in U.S. foreign and trade policy are designed to help companies win even when their investments fail By Marcia Perdomo A […]

Can Mexico’s new President resist mounting pressure to nuke the climate?

March 30, 2025

By Talli Nauman The anniversary of a fire inside a reactor building at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant (CNLV) set off the first […]

“Free, powerful and fearless”: International Women’s Day 2025 in Mexico

March 17, 2025

By Laura Carlsen It’s impossible to say how many of us there are. The International Women”s Day march in Mexico City isn”t a congregation, […]

‘I’m Still Here’ reminds the world that the pain wrought by the Brazilian dictatorship and its U.S. allies still hurts

March 6, 2025

The thick, dirty walls of the dim-lighted cell can’t block the sounds of pain and despair from the torture taking place in an unknown […]

Argentines March Against Fascism

February 17, 2025

More than one million people protested and marched against President Javier Milei’s racist, anti-feminist and particularly anti-LGBTQI+ rhetoric on Feb. 1.