Universal Basic Income: Why is its Implementation Urgent?

Oto Higuita Medellin, Colombia The debate on Universal Basic Income (UBRI) has gained a prominent place in public discussion. Increasingly more people, intellectuals, artists, politicians and opinion leaders are making contributions to the issue. In Colombia, nothing is politically and economically more urgent, apart from stopping the extermination of citizens. The debate coincides with a…

Fascism: How the Pandemic Has Been Used Against Democracy in Latin America

Tatiana Perez The unknown journey that humanity is facing on account of the Covid-19 pandemic continues unabated. This invisible enemy that has modified the current course of history appeared in Latin America between February and March of 2020 and since then we have seen how the most perverse capitalist model, Neoliberalism, has been gradually laid…

Chile: “There Is No Possibility of Ending Piñera’s Dictatorship Except on the Street”

Carlos Aznarez Marcelo Oses is an intelligent popular communicator, he knows how to speak in simple language to those who have been rebelling against the fascist government of Sebastián Piñera. Not surprisingly, Marcelo is one of the founders of that extraordinary medium known as Radio Plaza de la Dignidad, which has accompanied the most intense…

Uruguay: “The Pandemic is Misery for the Poor, More Wealth for the Rich”

Talking to Jorge Zabalza serves to renew the idea that all those who are fighting in different parts of the Third World are not wrong, but are part of an ideological reserve that does not conform to the brutal onslaught of capitalism. Zabalza was, is and will continue to be a revolutionary. He speaks as…

Bolivia Begins the Week with an Indefinite General Strike and Roadblocks

In the early hours of this Monday morning, the indefinite general strike and roadblocks began throughout Bolivia, called by the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and the organizations that constitute the Unity Pact, which demand that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal respect the election date established by law for September 6. These pressure measures were approved in…

The Mapuche People are a Target Where All the Bullets of the States are Fired

We talked to Moira Millán about the serious situation brought about by the viral outbreak, but not only because it is a contagious disease suffered on a global scale, but also because the action of the powerful, whether it is the big mining companies that destroy the land or the serial deforestation that abounds in…

While Bolivia’s Coup Regime Lets its Citizens Die, Cuba Has Nearly Defeated Covid-19

Ollie Vargas Cochabamba, Bolivia – As Latin America becomes the new focal point for the devastating spread of Covid-19, Cuba stands virtually alone in having saved its population from the dramatic health and societal collapse seen across most of the region. At the other extreme is Bolivia, where the coup regime is using the trauma…

Rushed School Reopenings Endanger Students, Workers

Ripley Butterfield Teachers, students and parents in Pinellas County, Fla., protest unsafe school reopenings, July 14. Despite the soaring rate of new coronavirus infections in the United States, a high percentage of students in grades K-12 will be returning to school in the fall. Nearly every state ordered public schools to close in March or…

Media Cover for US Clients’ Covid Catastrophes in Peru, Ecuador and Chile

Lucas Koerner Back in March, when coronavirus cases were beginning to surge in the US and in South American allies such as Brazil and Ecuador, Washington was busy raising the alarm about the “expansion of Covid-19 pandemic in the region, if not globally, if Venezuela… fails to address it.” Venezuela was reporting under 150 cases…

Bolivia’s Ongoing Coup

Oliver Vargas Faced with a victory for Evo Morales’ MAS party, the Bolivian government has postponed elections once again – the latest attack on democracy by a coup regime which Western powers supported in its name. When the Bolivian government’s electoral authorities nervously announced to the nation that elections were to be suspended for the…

Cuban Medical Internationalism Has Been a Core Component of the Revolution

Alejandro Pedregal and Don Fitz A delegation of Cuban doctors arrives in Angola on April 10 to help the African country fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographer: Ampe Rogerio/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Don Fitz has taught Environmental Psychology in multiple universities around the US, especially in the St. Louis area, Missouri, where he lives and was the candidate for…

Bolivia: “Beyond the Elections We Must Recover the State”

Carlos Aznarez The situation in Bolivia is still hot, especially after the decision of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to postpone the elections announced for early September until October 18. It is within this context that we interviewed Antonio Abal, who was a consul in Argentina and an astute analyst from the revolutionary left of his…