Peoples Dispatch Units of the Gladiators of the Altar have been set up in churches in many countries in Latin America. A three-year-old video of the Gladiators of the Altar,’ a project of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, has once again highlighted the role of the religious group which has been accused…
Category: ARGENTINA
Interview With Indigenous Social Leader Milagro Sala
teleSUR “The big powers come to govern the country (…) they want to take away our Argentine flag and they want to impose on us a colonization flag”. Milagro Sala On the 1,000th day of Milagro Sala’s detention, unions, political parties and social organizations marched to demand her freedom. To understand her situation on an…
The Feminist Struggle Has No Boundaries
Marcha Noticias | Peoples Dispatch ‘Not one more woman dead due to clandestine abortion’ In the aftermath of one of the biggest feminist mobilizations in history for the access to safe abortion in Argentina, Celeste Mac Dougall of the campaign reflects on the way ahead Following the rejection by the Argentine Senate of the Voluntary…
V Ernesto Che Guevara Medical-Cultural Brigade: In Santos Lugares… Looking for Haiti
Ricardo Vaz The fifth Ernesto Che Guevara Medical-Cultural Brigade took place on August 18 and 19, in the village of Santos Lugares, in the province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Having been present in the brigade, in this article we report on the activities that took place, both in terms of healthcare and education. During…
Latin America: The Judicial War Against Democracy
Enrique Santiago Romero Translated by Internationalist 360° On September 1, 2016, the Brazilian Senate dismissed Dilma Rousseff from the country’s presidency in a “political trial” in which she was convicted for allegedly manipulating the public budget. Between the 2 of November of 2017 and the 6 of March of 2018, the Argentine president Cristina Fernández…
Evo Morales Rejects Militarization of Bolivia-Argentina Border
On Thursday, Bolivian President Evo Morales rejected the militarization of the Bolivia-Argentina border that President Mauricio Macri has ordered. The Bolivian president said that the Argentine Government seeks to intimidate and frighten the Bolivian people, but noted that this action does not scare them. Morales said that Argentina’s move aims to rattle Bolivia. “They will try…
Argentina’s Inquisition: The Repentant Industry and the Heart of Lawfare
Claudio Fabian Guevara Translated by Internationalist 360° The colonial administration of Mauricio Macri in Argentina has unleashed a new wave of arrests based on another judicial mega-case specially designed for its media impact: the notebooks of the chauffeur Oscar Centeno. The story argues that the driver of a Kirchner second-line official patiently recorded for ten…
‘Bread and Work’: Argentine Workers March Against Macri and IMF
Workers demand the approval of five laws and the reject the IMF US$50 billion deal with Argentina. In Argentina, social organizations and thousands of workers marched Tuesday to reject the government of Mauricio Macri, its agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and to demand the approval of five laws: food emergency, urbanization of working-class…
US, Israeli Inteligence Involved in ‘Anti-Kirchner’ Campaign in 2015 Election
A report by the United Kingdom House of Commons has revealed that the company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) Group, a parent company of Cambridge Analytica led an anti-Kirchner campaign during the 2015 presidential elections in Argentina, which businessman Mauricio Macri, of the Cambiemos coalition, won with a margin of less than 4 percent. The report…
Argentina: Over 60 Social Movements Protest US ‘Military Base’
In Argentina, political parties, social organizations, human rights groups, workers’ unions and Mapuches held a caravan to protest the installation of a United States “humanitarian” base in western city of Neuquen. Under the banner “no to the yankee base in Neuquen” representatives of over 60 organizations travelled Tuesday to the site where the base will…
The Left is Alive in Latin America
Sergio Alejandro Gómez The result of the Mexican elections gives a broad mandate to the progressive candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador to fulfill his agenda for change and confront corruption, violence and inequality with a strong state and effective social policies. More than half of the electorate turned their backs on traditional parties and chose…
Cristina Kirchner’s Conversation with Rafael Correa
Cristina Kirchner to Correa: Neoliberalism “is going to fail irremediably” In this new edition of ‘Conversando con Correa’, the former president of Ecuador talks with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, former president and current senator of Argentina. In their dialogue, they address the characteristics of neoliberalism in Latin America and analyze what brought these ideas back…
