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Towards an integral framework for debt management: Lessons from Latin America to Europe (Part I)

1 April 2016 - by Daniel Munevar

Part II A brief survey of the history of South America would reveal that one of the landmark spots of historical traditions is reserved, besides soccer and corruption, to debt crisis. As such the region has one or two words of wisdom it could (...)
For Indigenous Peoples, Megadams Are ‘Worse than Colonization’

16 March 2016 - by Philippa de Boissière , Sian Cowman

These mega-projects expropriate land, spoil environments, and pollute democracies. Berta Cáceres gave her life resisting them. Early in the morning of March 3, Berta Cáceres was assassinated. They can displace communities, destroy the local (...)
Franck Gaudichaud: “Reality can’t be radically transformed only through institutions”

26 February 2016 - by Franck Gaudichaud

Source Resumen Latinoamericano / The Dawn / February 7, 2016.- Interview with Franck Gaudichaud, researcher and teacher, editor of the book “Latin America. Liberation in progress”. By the end of 2015, researcher and teacher [Franck Gaudichaud (...)
World Bank safeguards review: “human rights-free zone”

16 February 2016 - by Bretton Woods Project

As the third and final consultation phase on the second draft of the World Bank’s proposed new environmental and social framework (ESF), replacing the current safeguards, progresses, civil society organisations (CSOs), the UN and certain member (...)
The Challenges for Regional Integration - Bolivia joining Mercosur and Cuba – US relations

5 February 2016 - by Julio C. Gambina

Latin American Integration continues to be discussed as a way of addressing the repercussions of capitalism’s global crisis and aspiring to a different development of the global order. In recent days, a Mercosur meeting was held in Paraná, (...)
An interview with Claudio Katz

A new political situation in Latin America: What lies ahead?

5 January 2016 - by Claudio Katz

Two recent events — the second-round victory on November 22 of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina’s presidential election, and the December 6 victory of the right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable, winning two thirds of the seats in (...)
South America: end of a cycle? Popular movements, “progressive” governments and eco-socialist alternatives

22 December 2015 - by Franck Gaudichaud

More than 40 years after the coup d’état that defeated the Chilean road to socialism and 30 years since the foundation of the largest social movement on the continent, the Movimiento de trabajadores rurales sin tierra (MST - Movement of Landless (...)
Open letter to the governments of EU-CELAC

11 June 2015 - by Collective

We, members and representatives of diverse collectives and organizations from Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, meeting in Brussels around the Days of Mobilization for Peoples Sovereignty against TNC Corporate power and the (...)
“She’s on the horizon...” Eduardo Galeano’s Words Walk the Streets of a Continent

21 April 2015 - by Benjamin Dangl

Tribute to the famous writer died on April 13th 2015 The world lost one of its great writers yesterday. Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano died at age 74 in Montevideo. He left a magical body of work behind him, and his reach is as wide as his (...)
FTA EU-MERCOSUR: Why do only the negotiators want to sign it?

15 January 2014 - by Aram Aharonian

A Free Trade Agreement (FTA), under the conditions posed by the European Union (EU) for other countries (such as Colombia and Peru), is totally in contradiction with the goal of independent economic development that governments of Mercosur (the (...)
Haïti

CADTM Latin America and Caribbean continental assembly was held in Port-au-Prince

4 November 2013 - by CADTM AYNA

A CADTM Latin America and Caribbean continental assembly was held in Port-au-Prince from 31 October to 2 November 2013. Before the assembly, on 29 October, Eric Toussaint gave a conference at Port-au-Prince University on the subject of the (...)
Haiti

Press Conference CADTM Abya Yala Nuestra America in Port-au-Prince (Haití)

3 November 2013 - by CADTM AYNA

This press conference took place on 31 October 2013, at the head office of the PAPDA (in English: Haitian platform calling for an alternative development), during the second day of the CADTM AYNA network gathering, in the presence of various (...)
ICSID and Latin America : criticisms. Withdrawals and regional alternatives

4 July 2013 - by Nicolas Boeglin

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) between investors and states was established in 1965 with the adoption of the Washington Convention, establishing a specific arbitration mechanism under the auspices of World (...)
Chávez, internationalism and socialism

17 April 2013 - by Camille Chalmers, Beverley Bell

Since the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez on March 5, thousands of memorials have transpired across the Americas, from national ceremonies to village wakes. They have been organized by those inspired by the new models of economic, (...)
Eric Toussaint interviewed by Sergio Ferrari

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

10 November 2010 - by Sergio Ferrari

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 (...)
Contradictions in the Latin American Left

25 August 2010 - by Immanuel Wallerstein

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 (...)
International Court of Justice rules on Uruguayan Botnia case

30 April 2010 - by CEDHA

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 (...)
Latin America and the Caribbean is a peaceful region – no foreign military bases!

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 (...)
The U.S. and its unruly Latin American ’backyard’

26 January 2010 - by Eric Toussaint

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 (...)
Venezuela, Honduras, Peru, Ecuador “small” oversights and “big” lies

21 October 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

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

The impact of the world crisis in Latin America

4 August 2009 - by Claudio Katz

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 (...)
Criminalisation of social movements and poverty: a feminist outlook

21 July 2009 - by Tárzia Medeiros

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 (...)
Latin America and the Global Crisis

15 July 2009 - by Claudio Katz

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 (...)
ALBA Declaration of Cumana

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 (...)
Economists’ conference in Havana

Global crisis: the main protagonist

4 March 2009 - by Deisy Francis, Susana Lee

José Ramón Machado Ventura, Leonel Fernández y Esteban Lazo. Th global economic crisis was the main protagonist on the first day of Globalización 2009, the 9th International Conference of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems, (...)