Global South

Joint communiqué to the Ninth WTO ministerial conference from the members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America. Also excerpts from statement by Cuba's Vice Minister…
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How do protest activists elected to public office avoid being drawn into politics as usual? The dilemma faced by Chilean leftists may be recognizable to some in U.S. social movements,…
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Everything in the Honduran government is decided with the blessing of the U.S Embassy. And the Honduran elections of Nov. 24 – like those in Mexico in 1988, 2006 and 2012 – were a…
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Predicting a Venezuelan apocalypse won't make it happen: in this oil-rich country the only thing imploding is poverty.
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November's presidential vote is a key test of whether Honduras can return to democracy after the U.S.-supported 2009 coup.
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No one connected with Dominican society as ancestral or native land could remain psychologically unscathed by a decision that drags the country into the gutter of moral turpitude.
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Enrique Kiki Camarena was not murdered by Rafael Caro Quintero — the capo that served a sentence for that crime — but by an agent of the CIA. Former federal U.S. agents point to a…
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President Dilma Rousseff’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly chastising the U.S. for spying on Brazilian citizens, including Rousseff herself, was a nice example of what…
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During a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff accused the United States of violating human rights and international law by spying on…
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Leftists in the region are now more aggressive and right-wingers have been pressured to speak out. American experts may insist their focus is on Syria, but the backyard is rising in…
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