Como parte del trabajo del Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina (OCMAL), compartimos el Video «Minería: (De)construyendo el futuro de todos», que agrupa todos los capítulos de la campaña que lleva el mismo nombre. El trabajo audiovisual fue realizado por el siguiente equipo:Guion: Tania Muñoz y César PadillaDibujos: MicoRealización […]
The Movement of Refusal
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, 2023 Other languages: Deutsch, Français, Español The last decade and a half has been a time of unrest. As the French political anthropologist Alain Bertho has described in his book Le temps des émeutes, the early 2010s saw a sharp increase in the number of protests.1 Strikes and demonstrations […]
Multinationals Out! Solidarity Gathering/Encuentro Call
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Latin America’s Authoritarians Back Israel (From Resumen)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Colombia on the Brink
May 7, 2021 by Alejandra Marín Buitrago (from https://www.counterpunch.org/) Photograph Source: Humano Salvaje – CC BY-SA 2.0 In the last week, Colombia has experienced the most widespread civil unrest of its modern history. Since Wednesday, April 28th, millions of people have taken to the streets to fight back against a […]
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 […]
An Unstoppable Wave against the Blockade of Cuba
By Pedro Martínez Pírez on April 26, 2021 This past Sunday, and in spite of the COVID pandemic, many people around the world once again came out against the U.S. blockade of Cuba. And for the first time, a regatta was held in front of the Havana seawall with the […]
The Network in Defense of Humanity Rejects the Aggressions by Armed Groups against Venezuela near the Border with Colombia
April 5, 2021 The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity, in view of the confrontations that began on March 21 between the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and irregular armed groups in La Victoria, Apure State, near the Colombian border, declares: -It is an insistently repeated […]
Colombia-Venezuela Border: The Truth about the Conflict
By Yoselina Guevara L. on April 19, 2021 Venezuela shares with Colombia not only 2,219 km of borders, but also a history that unites them. A union that emerged solidly under the command of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, against a common enemy such as the Spanish Empire, and that was […]
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 […]
Militarization of Colombia is a Key Aspect of U.S. Hemispheric Control
By Vicente Guevara on April, 2021 Colombia has historically been of great importance as an ally of the United States. It could perhaps even be said that it has been the empire’s most constant and unfaltering ally in the region since at least World War II. Today, under President Biden, […]
LASNET ORGANISING MEETING
An invitation to everyone interested in starting a conversation on how to motivate people to get involve and improve our solidarity actions.
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 […]
Colombians are in the streets against a violent neoliberal order (from ALAINET)
What began as a massive general strike on April 28 is quickly becoming an open challenge to Colombia’s authoritarian neoliberal order. May 7th, 2021 by Stefania Martinéz In Colombia, a proposed deeply regressive tax reform bill was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Thousands of Colombians have joined protests […]
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 […]
Pandemic People Power! (Online 3-Part Conference)
Pandemic People Power! (Online 3-Part Conference):Stories of community power, resistance and resilience in times of COVID-19 in so called Australia, Latin America and beyond This will be a series of interactive 3 online mini-conferences with panels, group discussions and music! – lifting up examples of organizing, resistance and action both […]