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The IMF Does Not Fight Financial Fires but Douses Them with Gasoline
Quito’s streets tremble between aspiration and repression; the smell of tear gas and the shouts for freedom reverberating in equal measure from one part of the city to another. President Lenín...
View ArticleChile and Her History of Western Interference
Chile is experiencing the largest and most serious political crisis and public unrest throughout Santiago and the country’s major cities since the return to ‘democracy’ in 1990. A week long of fire,...
View ArticleChina Breaks the Western Debt Stranglehold on the World
The west has colonized, exploited, ravaged and assassinated the people of the Global South for hundreds of years. Up to the mid-20th Century Europe has occupied Africa, and large parts of Asia. In...
View ArticleOperation Condor 2.0 Expanded
According to US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, the US will help “legitimate governments” in Latin America, in order to prevent protests from “morphing into riots”. From what we are seeing this...
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2019 Latin America in Review: Year of the Revolt of the Dispossessed
A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio Grande...
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Biden Urged to Adopt a Good Neighbor Policy Toward Latin America
Election season is a difficult time to develop good policies towards Latin America, since both Democrats and Republicans cater to the small, but organized, conservative factions of the Latinx...
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Why the Cosmic Kite Never Fell: Football and Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona of Argentina holds the World Cup trophy after defeating West Germany 3-2 during the 1986 FIFA World Cup Final match at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, Mexico on June 29, 1986. (Photo...
View Article2020 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide May Rise Again
The balance between the US drive to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, tipped portside by year end 2020 with...
View Article2021 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again
US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean continued in a seamless transition from Trump to Biden, but the terrain over which it operated shifted left. The balance between the US drive to...
View Article21st Century US Coups and Attempted Coups in Latin America
During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place...
View ArticleDangerous Heat Across the Globe
The planet is heating up like never before, as “ground temperatures” hit all-time records in the Northern Hemisphere as well as the Southern Hemisphere, and ocean temperatures threaten the world’s...
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Anti-China Canadian MPs claim Sovereignty over Argentine Mine
The anti-China panic sweeping Canadian politics has descended from tragedy into farce. A month ago I mocked Globe and Mail Report on Business columnist Eric Reguly for complaining about China-based...
View ArticleNews on China | No. 86
China and Argentina move closer together as Argentina joins the BRI and they reach agreements on investments. Russia and China signed a joint declaration opposing Taiwan independence and NATO...
View ArticleNews on China | No. 88
This episode looks at the historic rapprochement between China and the United States when president Richard Nixon met Chairman Mao Zedong, the growing need for lithium, technological cooperation and...
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These Dark Times Are Also Filled with Light
Shengtian Zheng and Jinbo Sun, Winds of Fusang, 2017. ‘Fusang’ is an ancient Chinese word referring to what some believe to be the shores of Mexico. The work is an homage to Latin America’s influence...
View ArticleThe Pink Tide Surges in Latin America
While the political balance between progressive and reactionary states south of the Rio Grande continues to tip to the left, even the corporate press pronounced Biden’s June Summit of the Americas...
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The Rise of BRICS: The Economic Giant that is Taking on the West
The G7 summit in Elmau, Germany, June 26-28, and the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, two days later, were practically useless in terms of providing actual solutions to ongoing global crises – the war in...
View ArticleA New World Order is Emerging and Not Before Time
The recent meeting in Samarkand of the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, both actual and prospective, received little coverage in the Western media. This was a great pity because this...
View ArticleThe Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part 1)
Latin America and the Caribbean have again began to take on a becoming pink complexion, all the more so with June’s historic electoral victory in Colombia over the country’s long-dominant US-backed...
View ArticleThe Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America (Part III)
A surging Pink Tide has brought left electoral victories in Latin America and the Caribbean protesting the neoliberal model imposed by the US and its collaborators. Neoliberalism has failed to meet the...
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