How can a country with a degree of democracy put sanctions on various countries resulting in wide impoverishment while it brags that it is spreading democracy and freedom worldwide? A country that has the rule of capital as its main objective. True, there are other systems with negative characteristics. But capitalism...

"What we are witnessing here today is a practical demonstration of Lawfare in Argentina, carried out by the members of the court," announced Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as she was about to be convicted in the first instance. Now, the Federal Criminal Court of Cassation—the highest criminal court in the country—has...

Yamandú Orsi, from the Broad Front (Frente Amplio—FA), is the president-elect of Uruguay. He will take office on March 1, 2025, and lead the country until 2030. This marks a consolidation of progressive forces as the majority in Latin America, including notable popular governments in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and...

Private interests and foreign influence helped to pave the path toward Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-1985). The armed forces is not an institution separate from society...It’s a reflection of that violent and authoritarian society. However, they are more dangerous because they have the prerogative to legally use firearms. —Priscila Brandão An...

Rather than growing wealth, conservative economic policies have led to a lack of money in the country The country has changed in the last eight months; it is different. Since Javier Milei took office on December 10, 2023, Argentinians have only heard austerity, devaluation, recession, layoffs, poverty, repression, privatizations and...

Fifty-one years ago, a bloody coup in Chile overthrew the democratically-elected president Salvadore Allende, leaving him dead. Sometimes now called “the other 9/11,” it ushered in the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which lasted for 17 years...

“This pact exists throughout Brazil. It’s not privileged to Rio de Janeiro. Truth be said, it’s a very organic, structured relationship between Rio de Janeiro politicians, militia groups and the police. How does it function? Militias control growing amounts of territory. Approximately one million to 1.9 million people (in Rio...

Venezuela’s elections took place on July 28th. Nicolás Maudro defeated the right-wing candidate Edmundo González Urrutia by over a million votes. The imperialist machine immediately jumped into action to denounce the elections, condemning Maduro as a dictator and calling the results undemocratic...

The United States is at it AGAIN!! The current social unrest in Venezuela aided and abetted by the United States is not the first time, and undoubtedly not the last time, it will interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries. On December 22, 2016, Ari Shapiro, the NPR Host...

Sanctions are a misnomer when it comes to Venezuela. Here, the U.S. isn’t “just” illegally punishing a nation-state to effect regime change by withholding necessary resources and key inputs that cause food shortages, grave illness, death and economic instability. In Venezuela, the United States is also committing racketeer-level crimes against...