Latin America

Bolivia: Evo Morales Warns of Right-Wing Maneuvers

August 16, 2021 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Hybrid Warfare, Resistance

Translated by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews and edited by Workers World, August 13, 2021 Former president Evo Morales, leader of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party, denounced, this Aug. 4, the Bolivian political right for promoting destabilizing maneuvers disguised as political activism. “Once again, the coup plotters announce antidemocratic mobilizations against the legitimate, legal and constitutional government of our brother[…]

Workers Take Over a Kellogg Factory

August 10, 2021 UNAC Editor Paths to Emancipation, Venezuela

by Staff, published on Fightback News! August 8, 2021 Maracay City, Venezuela – In the worker-controlled Venezuelan Kellogg factory, you see the workers working diligently to make corn flake and sugary cereals in a new package displaying the Venezuelan flag and the words “Together for Venezuela.” They are wearing black caps with red letters that say, “Kellogg made in socialism.”[…]

Sandinista Nicaragua, More Dignified and Victorious Than Ever

August 9, 2021 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Revolution, Socialism

by Carlos Fonseca Terán, published on LA Progressive, July 25, 2021 Nicaragua is in the news again. But not for being one of the countries with the greatest reduction in poverty and social inequality worldwide since 2007 (poverty by half, extreme poverty by a third, and going from being the fourth most unequal country to being the fourth least unequal[…]

In Nobody’s Backyard: Rejecting Geo-Political and Historical Fatalism

August 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Cuba, Latin America

By Gerard Perierra, published on Tortilla Con Sal, July 29, 2021 Except for the hum of US helicopters flying overhead, there was a deafening silence throughout the Caribbean region, during the recent Operation Tradewinds, Progressive and Pan-African forces did not utter a word, as soldiers from Guyana, Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago participated[…]

Why Do The Media Hate Daniel Ortega?

June 30, 2021 UNAC Editor Nicaragua

by Gerry Condon, published on Popular Resistance, June 29, 2021 Is the U.S. meddling in the Nicaraguan election? When Kamala Harris finally traveled to the U.S./Mexico border last week, she met several young women asylum seekers. The vice president likely saw Hondurans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans who were fleeing from violence and extreme poverty. But she probably did not see any[…]

Nicaragua: Pandemic Recovery, New Elections Follow Defeat of U.S. Coup Attempt

June 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Interview, Nicaragua

Fightback News, June 16, 2021 Interview with Nicaraguan Sandanista Fight Back!: What organization are you a member of? Rosalía Bohórquez: Sandinista Youth Fight Back!: How has the experience with COVID-19 been in Nicaragua? Bohórquez: Nicaragua took a preventive attitude since the very beginning of the global pandemic. Thanks to the public health system, a community model, we succeeded in an[…]

Castillo’s Victory Unleashes Political Earthquake

June 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Democracy, Paths to Emancipation, Peru, Socio-Economic Struggles

by Jorge Martín, published on Workers World, June 14, 2021 The victory of Pedro Castillo in the Peruvian presidential elections unleashed a political earthquake, reflecting the enormous social and political polarization in the Andean country. The masses have inflicted a resounding defeat upon the ruling class, thanks to the militant teachers’ union leader at the head of Peru Libre, a[…]

Maduro: COVAX ‘Owes a Debt’ to Venezuela

June 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Public Health, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

by Ricardo Vaz, published on Venezuelanalysis, June 9, 2021 Mexico City, Mexico, June 9, 2021 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro lashed out at efforts to deny the country access to vaccines. In a televised address on Sunday, the Venezuelan president accused the opposition and “organizations of US imperialism” of engaging in a lobbying campaign to stop vaccine producers from[…]

Pedro Castillo’s Presidential Win: A Peruvian Trade Unionist Perspective

June 17, 2021 Judith Bello Peru

by Fightback News Staff, June 12, 2021 A brief introduction to Pedro Castillo and the transformational election in Peru. Since this article was written, Castillo was confirmed as the President of Peru. The Pink Tide lives on. [jb] Fight Back! interviewed Cristiano Mayta, a trade unionist in Peru on June 10 as the country awaited the official results of the[…]

The Case of Alex Saab – US abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge

June 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

by Sara Flouders and Roger D. Harris, June 12, 2021 With the possible extradition of a Venezuelan diplomat to the US on bogus charges, an emergency human rights delegation organized by the International Campaign to Free Alex Saab was quickly dispatched to Cabo Verde, where he is imprisoned. This island archipelago nation off the west coast of Africa is one[…]