South America

What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Latin America, Multipolar World, New Pink Tide, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, South America, US Foreign Policy, US Intervention, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Roger D. Harris and John Perry, published on Internationalist 360º, December 26, 2024 The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power[…]

The Pink Tide Surges in Latin America

July 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Latin America, Regional Solutions, Socialism, South America

by Roger D. Harris, published on Resumen English, July 13, 2022 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 meeting in Los Angeles a flop. Most recently, Colombia elected its first left-leaning president, following similar victories in[…]

The 12 Victories of Venezuelan President Maduro in 2017

March 6, 2018 UNAC Editor South America, Venezuela

By Ignacio Ramonet , from Fire This Time, originally published on TeleSUR. Maduro has confirmed – with his twelve brilliant victories of 2017- that he continues to be “indestructible.” To begin with, we must remember that President Nicolás Maduro is the most unjustly harassed, slandered and assaulted president in the history of Venezuela. Even more than Hugo Chávez himself, founder[…]