Posts tagged: latin-america

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  The Social Fabric of Chavismo

  On January 23, Juan Guaidó, who had recently been installed as president of the country’s opposition-led National Assembly, declared himself interim president of Venezuela in an attempt to oust the incumbent, Nicolás Maduro. But with Venezuelan society deeply divided, and the military continuing to support Maduro, it isn't clear how Guaidó can succeed. In this article, Marco Teruggi, who has spent the last six years observing first-hand this complexity as a participant in Venezuela’s communal project, reflects on the opposition’s attempt to form a parallel government and their failure to grasp the social reality of the Chavista base.

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  The Extradition of Cesare Battisti: Bolivia’s “Gift” to Italian Neofascism and “Brother” Bolsonaro

  The extradition of Cesare Battisti, crime novelist and former Italian leftwing militant who had been living in exile in France and Brazil since the late 1970s, demonstrates a worrying new level of collusion between right-wing governments in Europe and Latin America. However, Battisti's arrest occured in Bolivia and with the approval of the country's left-wing leader Evo Morales. In this article, Pablo Stefanoni argues that Bolivia's president has found himself tangled up in an operation that goes to the heart of an emerging new extreme-right international.

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  Rodrigo Nunes on a victory for fascism in Brazil

  Rodrigo Nunes discusses Jair Bolsonaro's election victory in Brazil, Bolsonaro's background, the composition of his electoral coalition, the mistakes of the Brazilian Worker's Party, and the nature of the contemporary far right, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast

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  Jair Bolsonaro and the threat to democracy in Brazil

  Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right politician, has won the Brazilian Presidential election, beating the PT's Fernando Haddad. During the campaign, Bolsonaro repeatedly threatened not just the PT and the Brazilian left, but the foundations of Brazil's democracy. In this report from Brazil, Conor Foley asks what Bolsonaro's victory could mean for the future of the country.

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  Privilege Versus Democracy in Brazil

  The far right Jair Bolsonaro looks set to win tomorrow's election in Brazil. Alfredo Saad-Filho argues that his improbable rise represents the growth of an authoritarian neoliberalism in Brazil and across the world. If he's elected president, Brazilian democracy could collapse. 

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  The Nicaraguan Crisis and the Manicheanism of the US Left

  Washington's primary interest in Nicaragua is not getting rid of Ortega but in preserving the interests of transnational capital in the country and the hegemony of capital over any post-Ortega political project.

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  Beyond Eurocentrism: on José Carlos Mariátegui

  Aníbal Quijano, the renowned Peruvian scholar and one of the founders of Decolonial Studies, died last month at the age of 87. In this text, an introduction to José Carlos Mariátegui’s essential writings on socialist politics and culture, published in 1991 by Fondo de Cultura, Quijano underscores the powerful influence that Mariátegui held over the theoretical development of Latin American critical thought

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  Fury and Euphoria: A Declaration from Ni Una Menos to Our Feminist Comrades Around the World

  The battle for legal abortion in Argentina is the starting point of a much broader struggle.

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  The Fire is Ours: A Statement from Ni Una Menos

  If the law is not passed, we will not leave the streets, and they will not be able to leave the congress building, because in the street legal abortion is already the law.

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  The Argentine May

  As elsewhere, 1968 in Argentina was marked by increasingly militant struggles waged by workers and students, but the “Argentine 68” had its own tempo and would not explode until May 1969. 

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  Change and Continuity in Colombian Politics

  Right-wing Uribe protégé Iván Duque is the next president of Colombia, but the Colombian left also had its most impressive turnout in history.

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  The Battle For the Future of Nicaragua

  As the Ortega–Murillo government begins to fall in Nicaragua, three forces are competing for counter-hegemony.