By Roger D. Harris and John Perry, Popular Resistance. The Reactionary Backwash. 2025 saw progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) delegitimized and displaced. Right-wing forces have seized on drug-related crises to attack the so-called Pink Tide governments, driving a reactionary backwash and putting new, neoliberal administrations in power. The irony is that the rise … Read More
by John Perry and Roger D. Harris “Take your money with you,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, “it’s poison.” USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion annually in Latin America, which is only 5% of its global budget. The temporarily closed-down agency’s future looks … Read More
September 23, 2024 The head of the U.S. Southern Command, Gen.Laura Richardson, announced a Marshall Plan for Latin America. photo: So. Command Laura Richardson, leader of the U.S. military’s Southern Command, recently called for the development of a new “Marshall Plan”, aimed at Latin America to counter the growing influence of Russia and China in the region. … Read More
Chiquita Brands International headquarters Europe in Étoy, Switzerland. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams In what case litigants are calling the first time an American jury has held a U.S. corporation legally liable for atrocities abroad, federal jurors in Florida on Monday found that Chiquita Brands International financed a Colombian paramilitary death squad that murdered, tortured, and … Read More
June 11, 2024 from Havana( A 8new ghost is haunting the world: that of the rise of the extreme right and the rise of a fascism that we thought was banished to the history books. Endorsed at the ballot box, as they did almost a century ago, they do not hide to show their most … Read More