Latin America

• Eric Toussaint interviewed by Sergio Ferrari

  Worrying signs from Venezuela to Ecuador – Latin America loses precious time

  by Sergio Ferrari

  10 November 2010

  In spite of a generally favourable situation given the existence of progressive governments and dynamic social movements, worrying signs can be perceived in Latin America. The recent attempted coup in Ecuador on 30 September 2010, and the election results in Venezuela four days earlier, are signals that call for a correct interpretation, as Eric Toussaint is quick to point out. An activist of social change and another world order, president of the Belgian-based Committee for the Abolition (...)

• Contradictions in the Latin American Left

  by Immanuel Wallerstein

  25 August 2010

  Latin America has been the success story of the world left in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This is true in two senses. The first and most widely-noticed way is that left or left-of-center parties have won a remarkable series of elections during the decade. And collectively, Latin American governments have taken for the first time a significant degree of distance from the United States. Latin America has become a relatively autonomous geopolitical force on the world scene. (...)

• International Court of Justice rules on Uruguayan Botnia case

  by CEDHA

  30 April 2010

  ICJ RULES ON PULP MILL CASE: World Bank’s IFC, Nordea, Calyon and Finnvera Complicit in Violations of International Law April 20, 2010 – The Hague - With nearly a 4-year road block firmly in place on the Argentine Uruguayan border in protest over a World Bank (IFC-financed) Finnish pulp mill, the long-awaited International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict came in today, clearly legitimizing local protests and indicating that Uruguay violated international law in the unilateral decision to (...)

• Latin America and the Caribbean is a peaceful region – no foreign military bases!

  9 February 2010

  Gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in the occasion of the events held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the World Social Forum and facing a new aggressive escalation of imperialism, we, members of social and popular movements, networks and organizations with varied aims, meet once more in a campaign that is similar to the one we organized against the FTAA in order to affirm that Latin America is a peaceful region and to say no to foreign military bases! For more than a decade, Latin (...)

• The U.S. and its unruly Latin American ’backyard’

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  26 January 2010

  U.S. aggressiveness towards the Venezuelan, Bolivian, and Ecuadorian governments has increased in response to diminishing U.S. influence over the Latin American and Caribbean area, which Washington has been blaming on Hugo Chávez in particular (and also on Cuba, but Cuba is a much older story). Several examples illustrate the United States’ waning control During the negotiations that followed Colombia’s attack on Ecuador on 1 March 2008, instead of appealing to the Organization of American (...)

• Venezuela, Honduras, Peru, Ecuador “small” oversights and “big” lies

  
  by Eric Toussaint

  21 October 2009

  It may be useful to assess the dangers of the systematically hostile attitude of the overwhelming majority of major European and North American media companies in relation to the current events taking place in Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. This hostility is only matched by an embarrassed, complicit silence with regard to those involved in the putsch in Honduras or the repression enacted by the Peruvian army against the indigenous populations of the Amazon. In order to demonstrate this (...)

• Conference at the Socialism 2009 organized by the Center for Economic and Social Change, Chicago, July 20th 2009.

  The impact of the world crisis in Latin America

  by Claudio Katz

  4 August 2009

  Thank you for this invitation and congratulations for this conference In my opinion, the effect of the world crisis in Latin America pose different types of discussion. The immediate economic effect, the political effect and the social measures required to confront the financial collapse. Economic arena The crisis has produced in Latin America a generalized collapse of the stock markets and capital out-flights that reduced credit. Commodities depreciation induces recession, unemployment (...)

• Criminalisation of social movements and poverty: a feminist outlook

  by Tárzia Medeiros

  21 July 2009

  The headway made by globalised capitalism, especially in Latin America, has set this region in the eye of the hurricane of social protest and the convergence of different anticapitalist struggles. A few years ago, sectors of the anticapitalist feminist movement joined in with this convergence, thereby contributing the transversal nature of feminist analysis in many debates and articles. The convergence of these forms of popular resistance has been fundamental to break through the blinders (...)

• Latin America and the Global Crisis

  by Claudio Katz

  15 July 2009

  SUMMARY: The economic impact of the crisis is visible throughout the region. The expectations of a disconnection with it have been diluted, while the monetary and tax shields are inadequate to curb the effect of the financial earthquake. It is true that the leverage of banks is smaller, but capital out-flights are more intensive. Overproduction hits the internationalized industry and cheaper commodities reverts growth. Moreover, attempts to re-launch collide with the availability of fewer (...)

• ALBA Declaration of Cumana

  28 April 2009

  Cumana, Venezuela We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of ALBA, consider that the Draft Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons: The Declaration does not provide answers to the Global Economic Crisis, even though this crisis constitutes the greatest challenge faced by humanity in the last decades and is the most serious threat of the current (...)

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