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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 14 May 2017
False Beliefs and the War on Venezuela
Western media coverage of this latest coup attempt by Venezuela’s right-wing opposition has tried to establish false beliefs. A basic reality underlies the self-evident role of Western media as […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 13 May 2017
Constituent Assembly, an opportunity for peace and the revolution
These are turbulent times in Venezuela. The opposition has gone all-in on their soft coup attempts, whose main ingredient is violence and death in the streets. Chavismo, despite the crisis […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 11 May 2017
Soft Coups in Latin America: the cases of Ecuador and Bolivia
The US now engineers “regime change” not so much by using the military, in part because of their military quagmires in the Middle East, in part because Obama has sought […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 06 May 2017
Over 2,000 Honduran Campesinos Occupy Former United Fruit Farms
The campesinos are demanding better working conditions and health care from their employer. Over 2,000 Honduran campesinos have taken over ten farms in La Lima belonging to the Tela […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America / Media Watch
- 01 May 2017
Make No Mistake: There is a media blockade against Venezuela
Venezuela is in flames. Or at least part of it is. Since April 4th, opposition militants have been carrying out targeted acts of violence, vandalism and arson, as well as […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 23 Apr 2017
Guarimbas 2.0 – murder and terror brought to you by the Empire and the local oligarchy
The episodes in recent days, featuring the erection of barricades, destruction of public property and widespread violence by opposition groups bring back memories of the 2014 guarimbas (1). After months […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America / North-South relations
- 13 Apr 2017
Odebrecht, or the Moral Bias of Corruption
The investigations conducted by the United States Department of Justice on the payment of bribes to Latin American politicians by the Brazilian transnational Odebrecht, have had an over-dramatic and sensationalist […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 03 Apr 2017
Hands off Venezuela!
Under our very eyes, the same plan for a coup d’Etat that happened in Chile is being organized by neoliberalism in Venezuela. Chile is always presented as an ‘economic […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America
- 02 Apr 2017
Luis Almagro: Regime Change Apostle?
With a brutality that would make even Cambodia’s Pol Pot blush, Venezuela’s dictator-in-chief, Nicolas Maduro, continues his onslaught against the Venezuelan people, enforcing mass starvation on the defenseless population. Or […]
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- Analysis and testimonies / Latin America / North-South relations
- 31 Mar 2017
French candidate Macron wants destructive gold mining in French Guiana
This 2016 video is called Wildlife of French Guiana. As this blog reported, there are grave economic and social problems in the French colony ‘Overseas Department‘ French Guiana, and workers have […]