Tag: SOUTH AMERICA

Irrelevance and clashes at the Summit of the Americas

August 10, 2022

The IX Summit of the Americas was on the wrong path from the very beginning. For the first time since its creation in 1994, this meeting in which all the leaders of the Americas meet triennially, was held a year late.

Senate Investigation on COVID handling bad news for Bolsonaro re-election bid

January 12, 2022

The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) that investigated president Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the Covid 19 pandemic presented its report in October 2021. The conclusions of the investigation are bad news for the Brazilian president. The Covid CPI calls for the indictment of the president for at least nine crimes, among them crimes against humanity.

The Mexico Dialogue on Venezuela and the End of the Lima Group

September 16, 2021

The conversations in Mexico between the opposition Unitary Plataform of Venezuela and the Maduro government, with the intermediation of Norway, represent the failure of the US interventionist strategy and the end of the Lima Group.

Tiempos de diálogo en Venezuela y el fin del Grupo de Lima

September 15, 2021

Las conversaciones realizadas entre la opositora Plataforma Unitaria de Venezuela y el gobierno presidido por Maduro con la intermediación de Noruega, en territorio mexicano representan el fracaso de la estrategia injerencista estadounidense en ese país, así como también el fin del Grupo de Lima.

A Trarilongko Mapuche in Cuba

July 23, 2021

My ñuke, mother, taught us to bring out the best in ourselves in our fight against hunger: creativity, imagination, solidarity and persistence. These attributes I found in the Cuban people.

Colombia, Between Extermination and Emancipation

June 8, 2021

his phase of resistance began with a shout of protest against a new policy that would levy taxes on basic products and services, raising the cost of living in a country where unemployment, poverty and inequality are at  unprecedented levels. It has now become a struggle between extermination and emancipation. 

Chile: the end of Neoliberalism and the start of a new chapter in its history

June 1, 2021

The May 15th and 16th elections in Chile, which encompassed concurrently the vote for the 155 delegates to the Constituent Assembly as well as the vote for municipal officials and regional governors, has exposed the dismal failure of the government and rightwing parties while sanctioning the triumph of the independent candidates.