Latin America

The Good I wrote six articles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) about the Bernie Sanders campaign during the 2016 primary. As everyone keeps saying, Bernie is a paragon of consistency, so my understanding of him stands unchanged. The political situation in 2020 is, however, significantly different, and has opened up new possibilities for the More

“El éxito del FREPAP, la organización política creada por el mesías de Occidente, Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal, obliga a revisar cuánto conocemos realmente del Perú”

Nicolás Lynch Las elecciones del 26 de enero han sido un fracaso para el Perú y, en especial, para la izquierda. Por los resultados electorales, tendremos un Congreso conformado mayoritariamente por partidos que no tienen propuesta política y que suelen moverse de acuerdo al dictado de los medios que expresan el ánimo conservador de las élites o peor todavía, de las ambiciones personales de sus integrantes.

Brújula digital|21|01|20| Varios sectores pertenecientes al Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) expresaron su descontento por la determinación del ex presidente Evo Morales que decidió que el binomio presidencial que represente al MAS en las próximas elecciones generales est

Sebastián Piñera, quien de alguna manera sigue coordinando acciones para salir de este atolladero, se sumergió en el más bajo nivel de apoyo público a un presidente en el continente: sólo el 6% de …

Bolivia vive un profundo giro conservador, promovido por un nuevo bloque político y social

Bolivia vive un profundo giro conservador, promovido por un nuevo bloque político y social

A Peruvian judge ruled that the government exclude an indigenous region of the Amazon near the border with Brazil from any oil exploration and exploitation, a legal group said on Wednesday, in a win f...

El expresidente ha impuesto su criterio eligiendo a Luis Arce y David Choquehuanca en la reunión extraordinaria que sostuvo el domingo en Buenos Aires

Zuleta put on hold a deal with a Chinese company to extract lithium, and said another deal with a German company that previously had been scrapped would remain so.

The new chief of Bolivia's state-owned lithium company YLB plans strict limits on foreign investment in extraction and processing of the white metal key to electric vehicle batteries, he told Reu...

El Congreso de Unidad de la Federación Regional Única de Trabajadores Campesinos del Altiplano Sud (FRUTCAS) realizado en la ciudad de Uyuni el pasado 21 y 22 de diciembre del 2019 resolvió exigir …

Venezuela’s cities have given birth to a powerful social movement aiming at urban reorganization through self-governed assembly processes.

Note from LeftEast editors: This text, composed cooperatively by four Chilean academics, was read during the opening ceremony of the Sixth International Days of Latin American Problems (VI Jornadas…

By comparison with the scale of the upheaval through which Brazil has lived in the last five years, and the gravity of...

Last year something wonderful and unexpected happened in Argentina that filled us with hope and put some on alert: the...Read More

El gobierno de facto boliviano estrecha las relaciones con Israel, un Estado denunciado internacionalmente por cometer masivamente violaciones de DD.HH.

It is easy to wax apocalyptic about Argentina. The country may indeed be a very “unfinished utopia,” as the political commentator Ignacio Zuleta once called it, but it’s hardly on the brink of collapse—as much as alarmism is a national neurosis in Argentina. Let’s assume the new president, Alberto Fernández, with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as his vice-president, successfully renegotiates the IMF loan. The four major trade union federations—which are Peronist, after all—as well the social movements led by people like the activist Juan Grabois will surely give Fernández some months’ grace...

The resistance to the right-wing coup in Bolivia has developed under the banners of the indigenous peoples. The working class needs to take up these demands as its own. We publish here the prologue to the third edition of Javo Ferreira’s book Comunidad, indigenismo y marxismo (Community, Indigenism, and Marxism).

A selection of NACLA’s recent coverage of the deep inequality, human rights abuses, and government failures to adequately deliver on the promise of peace undergirding recent protests in Colombia.

Colombia’s national civic strike is paving the way for a rural-urban coalition of protesters and movements that together can take on President Duque’s right-wing government.

Chile has a long history of radical neighborhood organizing — a tradition that is now put at the service of drafting a new constitution for a country in turmoil.

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 20/32 Movement promises to end the decades-long reign of corrupt union bosses.

With its recent general strike and continued mobilizations, Colombia has joined the global wave of unrest. If the movement can resist right-wing president Iván Duque’s attempts at co-optation, it could lay the groundwork for the transformation of a society long characterized by inequality and militarized brutality.