South and Central America
Scores of Haitian refugees killed in shark-infested waters
By Bill Van Auken, May 7, 2007
The deaths of over 75 Haitian refugees, whose boat capsized in shark-infested Caribbean waters as they sought to make their way to the United States, is one more tragic consequence of the stark povert...
Police killing of teacher provokes national strike in Argentina
By Jadir Antunes, April 11, 2007
Teachers throughout Argentina staged a nationwide strike Monday to protest the cold-blooded police murder on April 4 of one of their colleagues, Carlos Fuentealba, during a protest in the southwestern...
Brazil: Workers occupy factory where Lula once worked
By Marcela Souza, April 11, 2007
Workers at the Fris-Moldu car plant outside of Sao Paulo have occupied the factory since February 21 to press their demand for unpaid wages, and have now begun camping out in front of the facility. Fo...
CIA document links Colombian army chief to right-wing “terrorists”
By Bill Van Auken, March 27, 2007
In another blow to the Bush administration’s closest political ally in Latin America, an intelligence report obtained by the US Central Intelligence Agency has charged Colombia’s army chie...
Bush’s “aid” to Latin America mirrors national programs to mask oppression
By Vitor Hugo and R. Pichuaga in Sao Paulo, March 22, 2007
On the eve of his recent trip to Latin America, US President George W. Bush and his administration complained that Washington was not given enough credit for the economic aid that it is bestowing upon...
15,000 take to streets of Sao Paulo against Bush, as protest leaders defend Lula
By Rodrigo Brancher in Sao Paulo, March 10, 2007
Various protests erupted throughout Brazil to mark the visit of US President George W. Bush to the country on Thursday, March 8.
Allies in imposing misery and reaction
Bush and Lula meet to discuss biofuel deal
By Hector Benoit in São Paulo, March 8, 2007
US President George W. Bush is scheduled to arrive in Brazil tonight and to meet with Brazil’s President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva on the morning of March 9, when the two will visit the Transpe...
Bush mouths support for “social justice” while asserting US interests in Latin America
By Bill Van Auken, March 7, 2007
In a speech delivered on the eve of his trip to Latin America this week, US President George W. Bush cast his administration as a champion of “social justice” in the region. This hypocriti...
Hugo Chávez, Marx and the “Bolivarism” of the twenty-first century
By Jair Antunes, February 12, 2007
The beginning of the twenty-first century has witnessed a resurgence of bourgeois nationalist populism throughout much of Latin America. In some ways, this development shares common characteristics wi...
Repression in Brazil: University students sentenced for protest against Lula government
By Júlio Mariutti, January 30, 2007
The sentencing of two students from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) to prison for political activity is a stark indication of the escalation of repression on Brazil’s university campuses. Simi...
Brazil: The WTO and Lula’s “struggle” for the G-20
By Jadir Antunes, January 24, 2007
Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorin, the president of the G-20 (the group of 21 “developing” countries formed to defend their agricultural interests in international trade talks) told ...
The significance of Venezuela’s and Ecuador’s nationalizations
By Bill Van Auken, January 18, 2007
Presidential inaugurations in Venezuela and Ecuador over the past week were marked by calls for “socialism” and “revolution.”
