Category: <span>South America</span>

We need a reset by Barbados PM Mia Mottley

The Power-Shift to the Global South

The Global South is coming, with or–hopefully without–a vengeance. Look at the basic facts in the power distribution. The abrahamic Occident expanded three times: islam 622-1492 from Iberia to the Philippines; christianity…

Why Children’s Rights Are Critical for Climate Policy and Environmental Activism

The actual cause of the climate crisis is the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution. But the proximate cause—the underlying activity that sparked the climate crisis and…

Argentina: Social Pain as Therapy By Marcos Roitman Rosenmann

When social pain is an escape valve to feel pleasure, we are in the presence of a broken society. Politically administered with a language of hate and pointing blames, social pain is…

From Port-aux-Prince to Africa: Unveiling the Haitian Crisis

22 Mar 2024 – In recent past weeks, the situation in Haiti has drawn international attention due to reports of escalating violence. Various media outlets have brought to light the alarming uprising…

Haiti on the Brink By Kim Ives

Demonstrators demanding that Ariel Henry step down skirmished with cops on Jan. 30 in Petit Goâve. Never have revolutionary conditions in Haiti been so favorable. The government of de facto Prime Minister…

How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions from Developing Countries

Anival Tanguila, a Quichua leader from the Corazón del Oriente Community, stands next to decommissioned Perenco oil infrastructure in the Ecuadorian Amazon on 22 Mar 2023. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News A…

Venezuela and Guyana to Maintain Direct Dialogue Amid Essequibo Dispute

By Jose Luis Granados Ceja on December 14, 2023 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart Irfaan Ali meet to ease tensions Venezuela and Guyana agreed Thursday to an ongoing direct…

Thumos, Fire in the Belly and a Taste of Salt

By Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service Frequently articulated expressions derive from the Greek terms logos and eros, but who has heard of thumos?  Why are the root words of logical reasoning…

Kenyan High Court Blocks Parliamentary Authorization of Police Mission to Haiti

A High Court in Nairobi has extended its orders blocking the deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti. The ruling was issued on November 16, shortly after the parliament approved a request…

“Oh freedom– what crimes have been committed in your name!”

  Speech made by Bassolma Bazie, Foreign Minister of the Transitional Government of Burkina Faso, at the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations, 23 September 2023, much acclaimed by the whole…

Social Activists Demand Real Equality for Chilean Women

Women social activists recognize that gender equality is gaining ground in Chile, but maintain that there is still a long way to go to turn into reality the promises to “level the…

Young People from the U.S. Travel to Cuba and Break the Siege

It’s a hot and crowded Tuesday morning in the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana, and the air sticks to the skin. You can hear the fluttering of paper as people fan themselves,…

Colombia: Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez have achieved a historic victory for the left – so who are they?

It was, said Francia Márquez Mina, a victory for “the nobodies”. Speaking in Bogota on June 19 after the results of the Colombian presidential election were announced, the newly elected vice-president struck a…

Chile Turns to the Left: The Daunting Challenges Ahead By Alejandra Garcia

Leftist Gabriel Boric became Chile’s president-elect this week, the man who will run the politics of one of the continent’s largest economies. The youngest president in Chile’s history represents the millions of…

COLOMBIAN MERCENARIES AND THE ASSASSINATION OF HAITIAN PRESIDENT JOVENEL MOÏSE

THE MEN SAT on a tile floor, many wearing tan combat boots, most with their hands cuffed behind their backs. The table before them was piled with weapons, passports, and bulletproof vests. Soldiers…

Haiti Revolution, sparks for freedom

by Ustadi Kadiri, Haiti Action Committee In 1789, French Haiti – St. Domingue at the time – was receiving 40,000 enslaved Afrikans a year, the result of working many to death. Enslaved…

Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse’s shameful assault on democracy by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters: | Miami Herald Opinio

The Biden administration’s response to Haiti’s spiraling political crisis may be motivated by wariness of entangling the U.S. in a neighbor’s affairs, or adding another challenge to the Administration’s extremely full plate.…

Farmers block roads across India in protest against farm laws

This was part of their continuing struggle against the three farm laws that were passed by the Narendra Modi led govt in September last year. Appeared on February 07, 2021 by Peoples Dispatch On…

Haitians intensify struggle against president Jovenel Moïse

Haitian citizens, social movements, trade unions and opposition political parties are demanding the resignation of president Jovenel Moïse, who seeks to extend his term of office until February 2022, which according to…

‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia by Vijay Prashad, Alejandro Bejarano

What role did billionaire Elon Musk and his thirst for lithium play in the coup in Bolivia? Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano discuss. Elon Musk with Vice President Mike Pence on May…

A Message from the Peasant Organizations in Haiti

Haiti Action Committee | Malaika H Kambon 31 May 2020, Port-au-Prince – Haiti Action Committee is honored to distribute this message of solidarity  from peasant organization in Haiti. It was translated from the…

The Final Chapter Has Still Not Been Written: Remembering The 2004 Coup in Haiti By Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee

On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was overthrown by a violent coup.  This was the second U.S.-sponsored coup against a popularly elected Aristide government,…

The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation by Seth Donnelly

$17.00 – $89.00 “We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. And “How did the global poverty rate halve in 20…

On January 1st, 1959, the Rebel army led by Fidel Castro overthrew Batista's dictatorship.