Evo Morales Urges Bolivia to Withdraw from OAS as More Presidents Look to Skip Latin American Summit

Wyatt Reed The Organization of American States (OAS) is looking increasingly marginalized as Bolivia’s former president calls for the country to become the latest to leave and more presidents ponder missing Biden’s Summit Of the Americas Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales suggested Sunday that his country should leave the Organization of American States, the international organization…

CIA, NATO and the Great Heroin Coup

Cynthia Chung How Miami Became the Center of International Fascism and the Murder of President Kennedy We should be seeing a picture that has painted NATO/CIA/Italian-American Mafia/Cuban exiles/and fascists including Nazis all working for the same apparatus and essentially the same goal: to overthrow democratically elected leaders and replace them with dictators and fascist right-wing…

The Black Alliance for Peace Calls on Latin American and Caribbean Nations to Boycott the Summit of the Americas

The failure of the U.S. to respect the sovereignty of nations in the region and its decision to exclude states from the Summit disqualifies it from being a credible host For Immediate Release Media Contact press@blackallianceforpeace.com 202 643-1136 MAY 12, 2022—The arbitrary decision by the government of the United States to exclude Nicaragua, Cuba, and…

Damage Control: CIA Told Bolsonaro “Not to Mess” with Brazil Election

BRASILWIRE Through a series of coordinated, limited statements, the United States appears to be distancing itself from Brazilian neofascist president Bolsonaro, the coup-threatened coming election, and its own involvement in the disgraced anti-corruption operation which brought Bolsonaro to power in the first place. This article was updated on 10/5/22 with new relevant information. As then reported…

Why Latin America Needs a New World Order

Marco Fernandes Latin American leaders at the 20th Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America–Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), among a list of progressive continental alliances (Image via: Bruno Rodríguez on Twitter) The world wants to see an end to the conflict in Ukraine. The NATO countries, however, want to prolong the conflict by increasing…

Dominica PM Roosevelt Skerrit Receives Order of José Martí

Kawsachun News Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit arrives in Cuba. April 25, 2022. Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit has expressed feeling “a deep sense of honor and pride and a profound sense of humility” having received the Order of José Martí by the government and people of Cuba. Skerrit spoke upon his return to Dominica…

Why Non-Alignment is Urgent for the Global South

Nontobeko Hlela 29 September 1960: From left, at the end of a non-aligned conference, are Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia and Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia (Photograph supplied by Getty Images) “We have been outside looking in for too long to believe the West…

Why Does a Right Wing Government, Such as Bolsonaro’s in Brazil, Support Vladimir Putin?

Yoselina Guevara The answer to this question seems to lie in one product: fertilizers. Siding with the United States and its allies against Russia would mean bringing Brazilian agribusiness to its knees, dependent on the tons of fertilizers provided by the Russian Federation, an industry of which it is the world’s leading producer. Brazil competes…

Folha de S.Paulo: Bolsonaro Has Coup Planned with Support From Military and Centrão

BRASILWIRE In August 2021 we reported how Brazil’s US-backed military regime (yes, regime) cast a shadow over hopes for the next presidential election. There was clearly a doubt whether it would go ahead peacefully, and if it did, if the Military government, fronted by Bolsonaro and backed by the United States, would accept the result and…

Lula Launches Presidential Pre-candidacy

Kawsachun News In São Paulo, Lula da Silva launches his pre-candidacy for the presidency of Brazil. May 7, 2022. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert “Defending our sovereignty is defending the integration of South America, Latin America and the Caribbean. It is to strengthen Mercosur, UNASUR, CELAC and the BRICS again.” “Defending our sovereignty is defending Petrobras, Eletrobrás…

The Pseudo-Left, Defenders of NATO, and the Clarity of Indefinition

Oleg Yasinsky Thus, for about 30 years, a hologram of democracy was destroying our so imperfect, so bureaucratic and so human socialism. I believe that therein lies the main reason why our democratic anti-authoritarian left today is so undemocratic, so authoritarian and has so little left, left. Several militants of the contemporary Russian left have…

Cubans Pull Together after Enormous Blast Rocks Old Havana

Gustavo A. Maranges and Bill Hackwell, Havana on May 7, 2022 For any Havana resident, the Paseo del Prado is part of his or her identity. Walking along this immense avenue and enjoying the architecture and cultural diversity of this area is a pleasure that many of us enjoy, while for others, it is so…