Dear wonderful people, here an invitation to get together for change… We hope that you receive this message well and are wishing you the best in your endeavours. On December 8-10, 2023, in Melbourne-Australia, together with people around the world we are calling a Solidarity gathering with Latin America, Asia […]
Latin America, Australia & Asia Pacific Solidarity Gathering – Multinationals Out!, December 8-10
Grass-roots representatives from a range of organisations and movements from Latin America, Australia & Asia Pacific Region will share ideas, experiences, and stories of struggle inside their own countries resisting global capitalism. The abhorrent business practices of the Multinational Corporations, and the struggle against them, will be the central focus […]
Canadian mining company at centre of deadly Panama protests has no plans to scale back
Pete Evans · CBC News The Canadian mining company that controls a massive copper mine in Panama says it has no plans to alter its operations despite widespread local protests against the firm’s mining contract that have escalated and turned deadly. Last month, Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals Ltd. was awarded a contract to […]
LASNET open meeting, November 18, 2023
Inspiring… Resisting… Creating new Possibilities for Change… An invitation for all those interested in solidarity with Latin America… LASNET OPEN MEETING, Saturday November 18, 2023 (10am-12Noon Zoom AND 2:00PM to 5:00PM in person at Catalyst Social Centre) Register here: https://forms.gle/aHmwuvnyioU4P6ft7 The Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) In Australia, Asia, and the Pacific, the […]
Panamá declara moratoria minera tras dos semanas de masivas protestas
From https://www.france24.com/ Ciudad de Panamá (AFP) – El Congreso de Panamá aprobó este viernes una moratoria por tiempo indefinido de la minería metálica, exigida en las calles desde hace dos semanas por decenas de miles panameños que rechazan la operación de la mina de cobre a cielo abierto más grande de […]
Palestine: Beyond the ‘two states’ myth
Tim Anderson Source: Al Mayadeen English, 2 Nov 2023 The ‘two states’ idea remains as a barrier to building an anti-apartheid movement, as is our duty under international law to dismantle a racist regime, just as was done in South Africa. The persistent myth of a ‘two-state’ solution for Israeli-occupied […]
Honduras: Serious Threat against the Life of Garífuna Defender Miriam Miranda
September, 2023 photo: BSM San Pedro Sula, Honduras, On Tuesday four men armed with assault rifles entered the house of the leader of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (Ofraneh), Miriam Miranda. Ofraneh denounced in its social networks the attack against the privacy of the defender of the territory that took […]
Bolivia: Evo Morales Announces Candidacy for Presidency
Evo Morales, photo: Martin Silva / afp Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales confirmed his candidacy this Sunday for the 2025 presidential elections. He pointed out that he was forced to make this decision, for which he will fight, in the midst of the internal division of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS). This is […]
Mexico: Ayotzinapa – 9 Years on the Truth is still Missing
Mexico: Ayotzinapa – 9 Years on the Truth is still Missing By Magdalena Gómez photo: Bill Hackwell This is what the parents of the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, who disappeared between the night of September 26 and the early morning of […]
The Past and Future of Latin America
From: Network in Defense of Humanity Article in From the side of the heart Bulletin Year XI, Number II, Oct., 2023 By Emir Sader on August 15, 2023 Latin America has lived in the 21st century, the most important period of its history, up to the present. After having been […]
The United Nations Fails in Palestine, Again
From dialogue initiatives.org November 7, 2023 Mouin Rabbani In a November 6 press conference on the Middle East, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres characterized the situation in the Gaza Strip as “a crisis of humanity.” Gaza, he noted, “is becoming a graveyard for children.” In the space of one month, it had […]
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The rise and fall of progressivism in Latin America
(Book summary) The rise and fall of progressivism in Latin America By Anderson Bean The Impasse of the Latin American Left (book name) by Frank Gaudichaud, Massimo Modonesi, and Jeffery R. Webber Duke University Press, 2022 If you were to look at a map of South America in the mid-1990s, […]
Murió Enrique Dussel, el padre de la “Filosofía de la liberación”
From Pagina12 Por Silvina Friera 6 de noviembre de 2023 El filósofo mendocino, que se exilió en México en 1975, promovió la descolonización espistemológica. “El capitalismo no tiene freno; el aumento en la tasa de ganancia es infinito, además los que acumulan capital nunca estarán saciados”, planteó. El hombre que luchó contra […]
Bolivia cuts ties with Israel; other Latin American countries recall envoys
From AL JAZEERA Countries blame Israel’s ‘disproportionate’ attack on Gaza and reiterate calls for a humanitarian ceasefire. Bolivia has cut official ties with Israel over the war in Gaza as two other Latin American countries recalled their ambassadors in Tel Aviv for consultations. Bolivia “decided to break diplomatic relations with […]
How have Latin American countries responded to the Israel-Hamas war?
from Al Jazeera: Colombia and Israel clashed earlier in the week after President Gustavo Petro compared Israeli attacks on Gaza with the Nazi persecution of Jewish people during World War II. After the Hamas attacks on October 7 that killed more than 1,400 people, and Israel’s announcement of a retaliatory […]