Recent Latin America

• Sankey: What Happened to the Pink Tide?

  Latin America’s “pink tide” governments challenge neoliberalism and US hegemony, but leave the basic structures of capitalism intact
• Yepe: The Southern Giant Will Have to Fight

  The first three governments of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) –two with Lula and one with Dilma Rousseff– represent the best in the republican history of the South American giant
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  Wallerstein: Behind Brazil’s Crisis

  The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has been suspended from her office while she goes on trial by the Senate. If convicted, she would be removed from office, which is what is meant in Brazil by “impeachment.” Anyone, even Brazilians, who have been trying to follow the last several months of political maneuvering may be excused if they are somewhat confused by the many turns this process has taken
• Abbott: Honduran Indigenous Activist Wins Human Rights Award for Struggle Against Corporate Destruction of Land

  In 2015, Romero and her community were able to successfully stop the construction of the hydroelectric dam
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  Ellner: Beyond the Boliburguesía Thesis

  Why critics of Chavismo are wrong to suggest that socialism is to blame for corruption in Venezuela
• Sullivan: Calling ALL Venezuelans to the Table

  The solidarity and natural bartering system that has unfolded in our Venezuela-in-crisis is beautiful, and it is what has allowed us to survive until now
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  Wilpert: Country profile: Ecuador

  In the days following the catastrophic earthquake that struck Ecuador...
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  Zirin: The 2016 Rio Olympics & Brazil’s Collapsing Political System

  AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and...
• Alvarez: OAS Threatens to Suspend Venezuela While Ignoring Recent Ouster of Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff

  Interview on the situation in Venezuela and the actions of the OAS
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  Hallinan: A Very Brazilian Coup

  On one level, the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff...
• Branford: Brazil: Recolonising a continent

  Examining the past failures and future prospects of the left in Brazil in the face of a concerted US-backed right-wing offensive
• Gutiérrez D.: Insurgency, conflict and communalism in Colombia

  For decades, the FARC has led the revolutionary struggle in Colombia, but now farmers are taking over control by means of communal assemblies.
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  Greenwald: New Political Earthquake in Brazil: Is It Now Time for Media Outlets to Call This a “Coup”?

  The conversations include discussions of the important role played in Dilma’s removal by the most powerful national institutions, including — most importantly — Brazil’s military leaders
• Fernandes: The Right Marches on Brazil

  Brazil’s interim government is orchestrating a stunning transfer of power to the country’s elites
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  Pearson: Media Wars: The Role of the Left When Venezuela’s Imperfect Revolution is Under Attack

  The best way to counter the media war on Venezuela is to do what they don't do: offer in depth, contextualised, critical coverage
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  Lebowitz: Building alternatives to neoliberalism in Latin America

  Interview on the opposition to neoliberalism and the prospects for a socialist alternative in Latin America today
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  Dangl: Openings and Labyrinths of Latin America’s Left

  The leftist wave wasn't without its grave pitfalls and perhaps structural flaws. Maybe it will take this crisis to build an even more enduring political front and movement alternative
• Da silva: Lula: Media, US-Friendly Elites Responsible for Brazil’s Coup

  Lula told teleSUR that new Senate-imposed interim President Michel Temer...
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  Wallerstein: The Politics Behind Brazil’s Crisis

  The struggle is worldwide and the Brazilian left can either play a major role in it or slip into global irrelevance and national misery
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  Boron: Taking power by storm in Brazil

  The PT’s tendency to slow down the mobilizations and de-organize the popular movement that had begun in the first stage of Lula’s administration, would leave Dilma unprotected against the attacks of the right
• Safatle: We Accuse

  Brazil’s new government is the product of a parliamentary coup and a bankrupt political class
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  Stedile: “Now it’s time for permanent mobilization”

  We have to gather all the energy we can because a period of struggle and political, social and environmental crisis is coming
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  Telesur English: In Just One Day, Brazil’s Post-Coup President Sent the Country Back Decades

  Michel Temer has waged an all out attack on the country's most progressive social and political achievements
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  Weisbrot: Economic policy could determine the political results in Venezuela

  The Venezuelan government faces many challenges, but none so important or urgent as economic recovery
• Aznárez: Now, in Brazil, the Battle for Democracy is Fought on the Streets

  That’s the real Brazil, with its Landless and its Homeless, with its metal workers from the ABC union or the combative Mercedes Benz workers, who cried out loud that “there will be no coup”