Latin America

Sunday’s referendum could mean end for 1980 constitution that allowed privatization to flourish and led to widespread inequality

Tendrán que hilar muy fino los dirigentes del partido triunfador en las recientes elecciones para asegurar que la derecha no tenga posibilidad alguna de cambiar la Constitución boliviana.

The landslide vote for Luis Arce is reason for optimism, but Bolivia still requires major resources to contain Covid-19, says Kevin Young, a history teacher at Massachusetts University

La pandemia del COVID-19 impacta en una América Latina ya golpeada por la crisis económica y por una ofensiva conservadora casi sin precedentes. Pero los pueblos se resisten a dar la pulseada por perdida, y los ejemplos de resistencia y construcciones alternativas proliferan por toda la región.

Now that a new date for elections – 18 October – is irreversible, Bolivia has once again narrowly avoided civil war...

Martin Vizcarra, Peru’s president, has announced that “his government has taken up the challenge and has been working on the approval of a new regulation

Introduction The rising toll of diseased and deceased from the COVID-19 pandemic has hit Bolivia particularly hard, in a continent that is now in the lead

Nine months after the right-wing coup that ousted Bolivian president Evo Morales, elections still have not been held and popular discontent with the coup regime is boiling over. Democracy must be restored, no matter what the golpistas and their allies in Washington want.

With Covid-19 ravaging across the region and fossil fuels in free fall, Latin America needs to embrace a just transition

Róbert Nárai speaks to Jeffrey R. Webber on how the unfolding health crisis in Latin America is reshaping politics across the region.

The view from Latin America.

The October uprising in Chile is an example of what we would call a generalized passage from private malaise to collective revolt, a moment in which those sufferings that had been lived in domestic confinement, with guilt and loneliness, are brought out into public space, and understood as socially and politically produced, awakening a will to struggle as well as a mutual recognition between those who share experiences, feelings, fears, and common hopes.

The government of Argentina may be just weeks away from a major debt default. Its years-long gamble on fracking is not the solution.

The view from Latin America.

Venezuela is ill-equipped to support its population as it enforces social distancing rules.

Ariel Dorfman reflects ahead of Chile's April 26th constitutional referendum.

Jon Lee Anderson reports on whether the controversial socialist leader Evo Morales was deposed or escaped justice.

Medellín is a crucible of narco-paramilitarism and state-sponsored terror, and the time between death threats and...

In Peru's capital, a group dressed in biblical-style robes, veils, and sandals gathered one recent Sunday night to celebrate an unlikely victory: their congregation had overnight become a major f...

People are no longer remaining silent in the region, and continued government attempts at repression will only make matters worse.

The re-capture of power in Bolivia by traditional elites, backed by US imperialism, has legitimised racism and a wave of repression. But the MAS may be beginning a process of democratic renewal.

Ojo al Clima visitó el proyecto de “siembra y cosecha” de agua liderado por mujeres indígenas Quechua. Este disminuyó los impactos del cambio climático en la región andina de Ayacucho, Perú.

Will the people of Chile be able to shape their own destiny via a plebiscite? Two months before the scheduled vote, the answer remains uncertain.

Venezuela is undergoing a rentier-capitalist implosion, made worse by imperial intervention, violent domestic right-wing opposition, and the fusion of the interests of the state and capitalists within the Maduro regime.

By Juan Manuel Boccacci - February 3, 2020 If a Chilean was told a year ago that in a few months he would find popular assemblies in his neighborhood to give his opinion and decide on the future of hi

After the outbreak of the most intense and massive social protests ever recorded in the history of Chile, on November 16 the government and most political parties signed an agreement to restore peace and public order and initiate a process to draft a new constitution. The protests, triggered by the rise in subway fares on More

Róger Rumrrill No La elección parlamentaria extraordinaria del domingo 26 de enero del 2020 no solo ha modificado drásticamente el mapa político peruano ha descalabrando a la ultraderecha política constituida por el fujimorismo, dejando al borde de la crisis terminal al Apra y decretando la extinción de partidos como Solidaridad Nacional y otros.