Nicaragua: Of “Guarangos” Popes, Decrepit Churches, Small and Large Homelands

Jorge Capelán On Friday there was a scandal that is still reverberating around the world. In a interview with the right-wing and anti-popular media par excellence, Infobae, sworn enemy of everything that smells of Patria Grande, Mr. Jorge Bergoglio, that for about 10 years has held the religious name of Francis, delivered an outburst of,…

Lidia Patty Mullisaca: Taking Down a Fascist

Cindy Forster Over two years ago, Lidia Patty Mullisaca of the indigenous Kallawaya nation, in rural La Paz, formally accused the leaders of Bolivia’s 2019 coup for terrorism. This lawsuit led to the recent arrest of far-right leader Fernando Camacho. No one coached her. Her decisions hold a mirror to the thinking of Bolivia’s masses….

Peru: “Our Demands Are Now Political”

Elisa Fuenzalida An Interview with Lourdes Huanca Atencio The peasant uprising in Peru has achieved what seemed impossible: the left and academia have been left speechless. Or at least it seems so, since their analyses have been silenced under the popular Indigenous clamor, which has organized delegations from the four “suyos” (1) of Peru in…

Chile: Mapuche Hurt by Rejection of a Plurinational Constitution

Orlando Milesi Mapuche activist Maria Hueichaqeo stands in front of the ruca (traditional Mapuche circular house) built on the Antu Mapu campus, which serves as the headquarters for the work of the Tain Adkimn Mapuche Indigenous Association, aimed at raising awareness in Chilean society of the situation of indigenous peoples and of how the Chilean…

A Bolivian Hell on Earth: Balkanization in the Name of God

Rafael Bautista S. If hell is a Christian invention, its own history – which is the history of the West – is proof of it, shedding as much blood as possible “in the name of love”. But the religion of Hebrew-Semitic origin (not Western), which announced the “good news” to the poor, that we are…

Tectonic Plates Move in the Peruvian Andes

Ollantay Itzamná The simultaneous, spontaneous and multitudinous social mobilization is not only against a usurper ruler such as Dina Boluarte, nor only against political corruption, but also against the neoliberal system that impoverishes the great majorities. In the end, these streets full of polychromatic wills express the dream or intuition of new horizons beyond impoverishing…

Fidel’s Emancipatory Manifesto

José Galindo It is ironic that he who said that men do not make history, but are made by it, has ended up being remembered as the sculptor of a watershed moment in the history of the 20th century. I am referring to Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, which was both the culmination of…

Democracy Forever! President Lula’s Inaugural Address to Parliament and the National Congress

The complete speech made in the parliament hall after the presidential sash was conferred by the Brazilian people. I want to begin by giving a special greeting to each and every one of you. A way to remember and to repay the affection and the strength that I received every day from the Brazilian people…

Guatemala: Peasants, Indigenous and Popular Sectors Elect their Presidential Binomial for 2023

Ollantay Itzamná Thelma Cabrera and Jordán Rodas. Candidates for MLP presidential binomial, 2023 Nearly 700 spokespersons from different territories of the country, members (affiliates) of the political organization Movimiento para la Liberación de los Pueblos (MLP), on December 28, 2022, complying with all the requirements and electoral rules established by the Guatemalan legal system, held…

What Lessons Can We Learn from the Coup d’Etat in Peru?

Ollantay Itzamná What is happening in Peru, with an undetermined number of assassinations, is evidence that the indigenous, peasant, native, or alimeñado are not, never were, citizens. They are “internal enemies” according to the Peruvian Creole State. The bloody disorder that occurred in Peru in recent days, as a result of the political chaos generated…

Furious Oligarchic Revenge Against All the Bloods of Peru

Ollantay Itzamná Pedro Castillo in front of crowds of all Peruvian bloodlines On October 7, in a matter of 90 minutes, the world could see the level of the liberal political culture of the Peruvian elite, in force for more than two centuries. A president (harassed and lonely) who decrees the dissolution of the Congress…

Returning to the Path of UNASUR: Proposal for a Transition Agenda

Pedro Sassone The UNASUR headquarters in Quito, Ecuador This proposal responds to the call made by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros to “retake UNASUR”, as he stated in declarations to the press; it is also part of the development of a research work on the geopolitical vision of Commander…

NATO Threats to the Heart of Abya Yala

Jorge Capelán Hydrographic basins of South America: In green, the Amazon basin,and in purple, the Rio de la Plata basin. In the face of a new wave of governments of self-defined progressive orientation in recent years in several countries of the region, there are alarming maneuvers by the United States and NATO to prevent a…

The Lula-López Obrador and Petro-Maduro Impact

Eduardo Paz Rada It has not only been the poor, marginalized, women, workers, Indians, peasants or students of Brazil who have celebrated the difficult electoral triumph of Lula da Silva on October 30, it has been all the Latin American and Caribbean people who have seen themselves represented in the figure of the metal worker…

Decolonizing RUNASUR: Trade Unions Challenged by Plurinationality

Ollantay Itzamná Mirada Abya Yala Plurinationality is related to political cultural identity, territoriality, Mother Earth. Trade unionism, to a large extent, are modern actors (associated individuals) who seek to improve their working life conditions, and to a large extent assume that this welfare is achieved within the framework of the nation state (lethal with the…

Buenos Aires Declaration of RUNASUR: Integration of the Peoples for the Peoples

At a press conference held this noon at the Hotel Quagliaro of ATE, the documents prepared at the Plurinational Assembly constitutive of RUNASUR were presented. The General Secretary of the CTA, Hugo “Cachorro” Godoy opened the conference recalling that the Quagliaro hotel sheltered Evo and other Bolivian referents after the coup d’état of 2019, as…

RUNASUR Officially Established in Buenos Aires to Manifest a Plurinational America

A massive delegation of comrades of the CTA Autónoma, headed by its General Secretary, participated this weekend in the Plurinational Constitutive Assembly of RUNASUR towards a Plurinational America. With a Jallalla RUNASUR!, an ancestral ceremony and spiritual authorities summoning the ancestors and fighters of the people to guide all participants, and the delivery of welcome…

It is Necessary to Defy the Unlimited Colonialist Cynicism of the United States against Cuba

Jorge Capelan The demand for an end to the U.S. policy of blockade against Cuba should be a priority of the struggles of the peoples of Abya Yala. As if the now sixty-year old U.S. blockade against the Cuban people were not enough, the Biden administration in practice has continued the policy of his predecessor…