On the eve of Venezuela’s presidential election on 29th July 2024, Guardian correspondents, Tiago Rogero (based in Rio de Janeiro) and Sam Jones (based in Madrid) predicted the vote “could…
by Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris Admiral Alvin Holsey demonstrated selective outrage over the fear of multipolarity in the Western Hemisphere. The Southcom commander confirmed the official US military…
The people of the United States and most of the rest of the world woke up this week to the last news they wanted to hear. Not only had Donald…
Preparations for the US-led coup attemptThe people of Venezuela have defeated a high-tech US-led coup. The nation’s electoral authority was able not only to hold election 31st but, despite facing a…
Despite a monstrous internationally-coordinated, and grotesquely false media campaign of fake news that repeatedly quoted CIA-linked “pollsters” giving extreme right-wing candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, percentages of up to 80 percent of…
If there were any misgivings about the actions undertaken by the government of Venezuela around the territorial dispute with Guyana, the joint military exercises between Guyana Defence Forces (GDF) and the US…
Latin America and the world were stunned to learn that on November 19 2023, Argentina’s most extreme right-wing politician, Javier Milei, had been elected president with a hefty 56 per…
In a blow to US hegemony, the revival of Unasur at a summit of 13 Latin American leaders demonstrates the region’s shift back to the left and the rehabilitation of…
It finally occurred. On December 7th 2022 Peru’s ruling parliamentary dictatorship managed to bring to fruition their top priority, to oust democratically elected president Pedro Castillo Terrones. Castillo, a rural primary…
Today's presidential run-off in Brazil leaves voters a stark choice: continue the destructive nightmare of Bolsonaro's presidency – or choose Lula to fight poverty and rebuild. Moisés Mendes, a Brazilian…
In the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections, Lula triumphed. But the threat of a Bolsonaro victory to the world is clear – and must be passionately fought in the…
Ahead of October's election, with leftist Lula leading the polls, fears are rising of a Bolsonaro coup – meaning it's the entirety of Brazil's democracy at stake. After four years…
After years of calling Venezuela's economy a dismal failure that demonstrates the dangers of socialism, Western media is now lauding its recovery for 'embracing capitalism' — but this is not…
The world has been stunned by a double wonder: Bolivarian Venezuela’s political survival and its miraculous economic recovery: the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has reported that…
Men [and women]make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and…
Since a US-backed coup toppled Mel Zelaya in 2009, Honduras has faced a clampdown on democracy and serious human rights abuses. But the election of socialist Xiomara Castro is a…
Francisco Dominguez writes: After a full year of racist and repressive horror perpetrated by a de facto government resulting from a coup, the people of Bolivia went to the polls on October…
When in 1868, Cuban slave-owner Manuel de Céspedes embarked on a 10-year nationalist uprising against Spain, the colonial master, he did not imagine he would be building not only the…
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