Tiempos de colapso, tiempos de posibilidades
La masiva respuesta de los pueblos es el único modo de impedir que el capital mafioso y los Estados puedan diseñar la coyuntura de la pandemia a su medida.
Latin America can only thrive with a new eco-social pact
With Covid-19 ravaging across the region and fossil fuels in free fall, Latin America needs to embrace a just transition
Choosing between life or Capital in Latin America: Interview with Jeffery R. Webber
Róbert Nárai speaks to Jeffrey R. Webber on how the unfolding health crisis in Latin America is reshaping politics across the region.
Reclaiming Populism
The view from Latin America.
Opinion | Latin Americans Are Furious
People are no longer remaining silent in the region, and continued government attempts at repression will only make matters worse.
Storm Clouds Over Latin America
November's coup in Bolivia is just the latest episode in the right-wing resurgence across Latin America. In this article, William I. Robinson looks at the deeper structural causes for the retreat in the Pink Tide, and the hopes for a socialist renewal in the region.
The Specter of Interventionism is Haunting Latin America
A series of coordinated moves are building a narrative towards intervention in Venezuela.
Latin America’s right-wing leaders are fueling underdevelopment
We need progressive industrial policy if we are to solve the region's economic woes.
América Latina: ofensivas conservadoras y vuelta a la guerra de clases
Under Left and Right-Wing Leaders, the Amazon Has Burned. Can Latin America Reject Oil, Ranching, and Mining?
The social gains of the pink tide were real, and striking. But they were ephemeral, and the cost to the environment was high.
Claudio Katz: Who’s who in Latin America’s upheaval
By Claudio Katz November 23, 2019 Latin America is experiencing an abrupt change generated by enormous confrontations between the dispossessed and the privileged. This confrontation includes both r…
Our America in the face of the onslaught of imperialism and the oligarchies
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The most recent events in the region confirm that the US government and the reactionary oligarchies bear the primary responsibility for the dangerous unrest and political and social instability that broke out in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The US Will Help the “Legitimate Governments” of Latin America to Prevent Protests “From Becoming Uprisings”
This was stated by the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, while speaking at the University of Louisville about the region. The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said on Monday that Washington will …
BIF Special Bulletin - Some first reflections on a 21st century coup
Los golpes de Estado
La actual nueva modalidad de golpes suaves no debe hacernos creer que los golpes duros desaparecieron.
Latin America’s Pink Tide Isn’t Over
In today’s Bolivian election, Evo Morales is running for a historic fourth term as president. Vice President Álvaro García Linera spoke to Jacobin about how their Movement for Socialism can make their revolution permanent — and stop the rise of the far right in Latin America.
Unequal and Irate, Latin America Is Coming Apart at the Seams
The region’s competing models of government—leftist populism and market-oriented liberalism—are both under threat.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Macho Camacho: Jeffery R. Webber (with Forrest Hylton) on the Coup in Bolivia
In office since 2006, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has been overthrown in a coup d’état. Debate on how this happened and what it all means has been proliferating on the international left. Ashley Smith talked with Jeffery R. Webber and Forrest Hylton, two long-time observers of Bolivia, to get a better sense of the issues at stake.