Crossing the Storm: EZLN Marks 30 Years with a 120-Year Plan
The Zapatista liberation movement gathered in Chiapas to honor three decades of struggle and prepare for an uncertain future.
Communication By and For the People: A Conversation with Thierry Deronne
Thierry Deronne is a Belgian-born filmmaker who has long accompanied working-class and campesino struggles in Latin America. He talks about the philosophy driving the community media movement and the future of popular communication, and specifically his current project: Hugo Chávez Popular Cinema and Theatre School.
ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in Latin America
In a referendum on December 3, 2023, the Venezuelan people voted to affirm the sovereignty of their country over Essequibo. While doing so, they saw this less as a conflict between Venezuela and Guyana and more as a conflict between ExxonMobil and the people of these two countries.
The Prioritization of Human Health, Development and Self-Activity in Chavez-era Venezuela
The beginnings of two important programs of the Bolivarian Revolution, led by Hugo Chávez, are discussed: one, the missions, a new form of social services created to bypass recalcitrant bureaucrats and enable people’s participation; and two, the commune, to enable people to organize at the grassroots level.
Pinochet Killed Democracy, But Not Poetry in Chile
This year’s September 23 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whom Gabriel Garcia Marquez called “the greatest poet of the 20th century — in any language.”
AMLO Government Cancels Extortionate Public-Private Partnerships for 9 Public Hospitals
AMLO government has cancelled public-private partnerships for nine public hospitals by simply offering to pay just over 5% of the outstanding debt and fees owed to the companies involved. This is in sharp contrast to Europe – where many governments are gutting their public healthcare services.
Indigenous Voices Bring a Reality Check at the Assembly of the People of the Earth for the Amazon
Peoples’ movements from the pan-Amazon countries published a collective letter with a series of demands in defense of the biome and delivered it to the heads of state meeting at the Amazon Summit on August 8. The movements met in a parallel summit in Belém that emphasized indigenous unity and leadership in the face of the crisis facing the region.
Cuba and Africa: An Endearing Solidarity
In a continent so besieged – trafficking of millions of human beings as slaves, the distribution of territory by Europeans at the end of the 19th century, U.S. intervention against national liberation movements – Cuba’s actions in Africa stand out for their humanism and solidarity.
Venezuela, the Decolonial Alternative: A Conversation with Ramón Grosfoguel
Grosfoguel talks about the living links between the colonial and the neocolonial systems, the problematic legacy of the colonial past in Venezuela’s present, and US imperialism’s neocolonialism in relation to Venezuela
Mexico’s Supreme Court Decriminalises Abortion Nationally in Landmark Ruling
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the sections of the Federal Penal Code that criminalize women, pregnant persons, and healthcare professionals for abortion are unconstitutional, thereby decriminalising abortion at the national level.