Kawsachun News Ivan Duque’s increasingly isolated narco-regime has expressed contempt for the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) following today’s 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government. Colombia, notably absent from Saturday’s meeting, had blocked the Summit’s declaration in the latest sign of discord with the rest of the region. A press…
Category: ORGANIZATION OF THE AMERICAS (OAS)
AMLO is Right: We Must Leave the OAS Behind
Piedad Córdova Ruíz AMLO proposes to bury the Organization of American States, which he rightly calls a lackey organization. In the framework of the bicentenary of the first independence deeds in Our America, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO, taking up the Bolivarian ideology, proposes to bury the Organization of American States, which he…
CELAC to Choose Between Dignity or OAS’ Monroe Doctrine
Kawsachun News After five years without meeting, Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will convene on Saturday for the VI Summit in Mexico City. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose late Friday arrival upstaged all other participants of the Summit, has submitted a proposal to his Mexican counterpart, Andrés…
CELAC Summit to Decide Fate of OAS
Kawsachun News Marcelo Ebrard chairs the XXI Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Mexico City. July 24, 2021. Photo: Mexico Foreign Ministry The fate of the Organization of American States (OAS) will be discussed at the upcoming summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean…
Latin America and the Caribbean Increasingly Distant from the OAS and Closer to CELAC
There is a growing number of voices agreeing on the urgent need to replace the Organization of American States (OAS) with organizations such as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), among others. This would allow for a different approach to Latin-Caribbean regional integration. One of the triggers has been the role of…
The New International Relations of Latin America: Interview with Bolivia’s Foreign Minister, Rogelio Mayta
Kawsachun News We spoke to Bolivia’s Foreign Minister, Rogelio Mayta, who is leading the charge for a more democratic process of regional integration. The country is raising its voice against Luis Almagro, head of the Organization of American States, both for his role in the 2019 coup, and his wider political actions, on behalf of…
Bolivia’s FM Rails Against Almagro’s Disastrous Leadership
Kawsachun News Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Rogelio Mayta, at today’s extraordinary session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States, with the presence of Luis Almagro. Mayta rails against OAS chief Almagro for disregard the recent report by the University of Salamanca that proves…
Interview with Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
The journalist and correspondent for teleSUR Jorge Gestoso in a special interview with the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Sanctions and Weaponized Food: The Construction of a Food Crisis in Venezuela Part I
Clara Sánchez The United States seeks a “humanitarian intervention” at all costs in Venezuela (Photo: Fernando Vergara / AP Photo) In 1985, the legendary band Queen participated in the Live Aid concert, an event held simultaneously in London, at Wembley Stadium, and Philadelphia, at John F. Kennedy Stadium, to raise funds for humanitarian aid to…
The United States: Six Decades of Criminal Policies against Cuba
Hector Bernardo The invasion of Playa Girón, the bombing of the Barbados airliner, the brutal blockade that increased in the midst of the pandemic, the assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, the hotel bombings, Operation Peter Pan, the ZunZuneo project and the disappearance of Cuban diplomats in Argentina are just some of the events that comprise…
Decolonizing Pan-Americanism
William Camacaro and Frederick Mills “The reality is that we need not only a new system of human rights, but a new Inter-American system. We must understand that the Americas to the north and south of the Río Grande are different, and we must speak as blocs.” Rafael Correa, April 12, 2015. Summary The concept…
Responsibility to Protect: Analysis of the Subject and its Objectives
Jorge Arreaza Montserrat “Our first objective is to prevent the emergence of a new rival. This is a dominant consideration which must underline the new regional defense strategy and which demands that we strive to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources could suffice, under consolidated control, to engender a global power…
