May 14, 2021 The latest Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza and ruthless killings of Palestinians has Latin America split along ideological lines once again. OAS chief Luis Almagro expressed his vigorous support for the Israeli regime on May 11, a position typical of the region’s United States-allied right-wing. “We stand […]
Colombia’s leaders want to stain their country with the blood of the working class (From ALAINET)
In the face of a state that assassinates its own people, the Colombian people remain on the streets and continue resisting. by Laura Capote, Zoe Alexandra, May, 2021 As police and military forces in Colombia use violence to try to repress the massive mobilizations that grew out of a national […]
Entre nuevas movilizaciones y concesiones parciales de Duque: ¿hacia dónde se dirige Colombia? (Desde RT)
Nathali Gómez, Mayo 12, 2021 Luego de dos semanas de marchas, las exigencias de quienes han salido a la calle se han incrementado en medio de un panorama con hechos de violencia, denuncias de abuso policial, acciones de civiles armados y bloqueos en ciudades como Cali. Una nueva jornada de […]
Análisis crítico de la coyuntura y los desafíos del pueblo (Desde ALAINET)
Hay un agotamiento del patrón de acumulación que se instaló en Chile hace medio siglo con la contra revolución neoliberal. De Rafael Agacino, Mayo 12, 2021 Este artículo se ha redactado sobre la base de la transcripción realizada por Guillermo Correa Camiroaga de la presentación del autor el 28 de […]
Electing Chile’s Constitutional Convention: “Nothing About Us Without Us”
The rules for rewriting the Pinochet-era Constitution set new standards in creating space for women, Indigenous peoples, and people with disabilities. Over May 15 and May 16, Chileans will elect the 155 delegates charged with writing the country’s new constitution. The constitutional process is already 19 months old, launched by […]
“Convención Constitucional”: ni constituyente, ni democrática (from POLITIKA)
Escribe Felipe Portales y La próxima “Convención constitucional” no será ni constituyente, ni democrática. No será constituyente, ya que el elemento esencial de una Asamblea o Convención constituyente es la plena soberanía que esta tiene –delegada por el conjunto del pueblo– para elaborar y aprobar un nuevo texto constitucional, sujeto […]
A journey through Chile’s conflict with Mapuche rebel groups
Lucia Newman travels to the heart of a rapidly escalating conflicting, speaking to those involved, including the elusive leader of the main armed Indigenous rebel group. By Lucia Newman April, 2021 “The possibility of rebuilding the Mapuche nation is on the horizon of many in the Mapuche movement.”Hector Llaitul, leader of […]
Root Causes (Mex-US borders)
By David Brooks on April, 2021 Ever since the issue of migration flows at the U.S.-Mexico border intensified, the Biden administration has made addressing the “root causes” of migration from Central America and Mexico at the centerpiece of its response. Biden, his vice president, Kamala Harris, and America’s foreign policymakers […]
COVID-19 Vaccine Business and Regional Integration
By Javier Suazo on April, 2021 “The pharmaceutical industry has the responsibility to share intellectual property, while developed countries should be more supportive.” UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee and the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology.“Rumors are circulating about bringing salary-deductible vaccines to private company workers.” Carlos […]
…the U.S. has 600 military bases in countries outside its borders
By Elsa Claro on April, 2021 Whenever the United States accuses other countries of spying on them, they hide or justify their extensive world-wide network dedicated to finding out movements, their military installations, and their destabilizing operatives who focus on countries and entire regions. In reference to this reality, in […]
Critical Thinking: Who Will Apologize to Brazil?
By Emir Sader on April, 2021 Brazil is immersed in a humanitarian catastrophe. The country — which a little more than five years ago was an example in the fight against poverty, the fight against inequality and income distribution — has become, in just a few years, a hell, both […]
The Main Obstacle in the Fight Against COVID: Inequality
By Ariela Ruiz Caro, April 2021 A year and a month after that ill-fated March day when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 to be a pandemic, humanity now has available thirteen vaccines approved for emergency use. The pandemic, which has infected 133 million people and left 2.9 million […]
Chile: The Left that Fell Asleep is Being Carried Away By the Current
By Manuel Cabieses Donoso Another Chile is possible. Photo: Shirley Choenen The founders of the revolutionary doctrine have laid the groundwork for the objective and subjective conditions. The ideal situation for a step forward is the conjunction of both. But no revolutionary – from Lenin to Fidel Castro – waited […]
Campaign of Struggles: The MST Donates More than 100 Tons of Food in Brazil
The Landless Workers Movement (MST) is in solidarity and shares its harvest with the workers affected by the food crisis that the country is suffering, in the situation where more than half of the Brazilian population is not guaranteed that they will have food on the table. It is estimated […]
Online Action in solidarity with Colombia
Saturday, May 8th, 2021, Melbourne-Australia Time Viernes 7 de mayo, 19:30PM en Colombia Everyone with Colombia stop the repression against its people stop the criminalisation with the right to protest Duque out! (from Al Jazeera) For nearly a week, thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets across the country […]
Capitalism is an Environmental Failure, Latin American Leaders Warn
By Alejandra Garcia on April 25, 2021 (from: https://www.resumen-english.org) “Mother Earth does not belong to us, we are part of her. Savage capitalism has turned life into a big market and has destroyed the essential balance that must exist between nature and human beings,” Bolivia’s President Luis Arce said in […]
Las Luchas de los Pueblos Latinoamericanos en tiempos de Pandemia conversatorios via Zoom. Mayo 23 y 30, Junio 6 – 2020
https://www.facebook.com/events/675313866622807/ View Post LAS LUCHAS DE LOS PUEBLOS LATINOAMERICANOS EN TIEMPOS DE PANDEMIA!! 23, 30 DE MAYO Y 6 DE JUNIO, 11 AM (HORA MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA) REGISTRATE/INSCRIBETE AQUI A SERIE OF WEBINARS, DISCUSIONES EN LINEA, CONVERSATORIOS El codido y clave de ZOOM para ingresar se los enviaremos una vez se […]
Scientists Warn Worse Pandemics Are on the Way if We Don’t Protect Nature
From https://www.ecowatch.com/ A group of biodiversity experts warned that future pandemics are on the horizon if mankind does not stop its rapid destruction of nature. Writing an article published Monday by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the authors put the responsibility for COVID-19 squarely on our shoulders. “There is […]
COVID 19 and the population in a global context
The COVID 19 pandemic has spread to practically all the countries of the world, and there are already close to 2,800,000 infected and nearly 200,000 dead [1]. Currently the United States (EU) is the country with the highest number of infections (almost 900,000), with 50,000 deaths and is immersed in […]