Here we present the first contribution in a series of articles that we will publish on common goods, capitalist extraction and dependence in the Global South, with a special focus on Latin America. A few days ago the discussion about Bolivia and the overthrow of Evo Morales circulated in the media once again. Rivers of ink flowed over the link ...
For many years, speeches have been given at various international meetings to release or reduce the debts of some of the world’s poorest countries. These demands are highly expressed at every related or unrelated meeting of the United Nations. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, calls for a reduction in debt by poor African countries have increased. In a statement issued ...
The coronavirus crisis in Ibero-America has brought to light numerous problems across the entire continent. All models of governance and international disposition have suffered attacks to different degrees, revealing internal problems linked to the economy, health and the subsistence of citizens. In all of Latin America the number of cases amounts to 200,000, with a total of 10,000 deaths (officially) ...
Europe Germany: Hezbollah ban On April 30, the German Interior Ministry officially included the Shiite movement “Hezbollah” in its list of terrorist organizations. The decision was justified by the fact that Hezbollah calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and “opposes the establishment of understanding between peoples”. The US, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan and the UK banned the ...
Alberto Fernandez’s government has been safeguarding a successful response to the crisis unleashed by the pandemic. While certainly not without difficulties, he is showing the capacity for resolution, elasticity and adaptability. The historic Peronist party in power has found itself at a critical moment. Successfully emerging from the crisis would be a huge political victory, and would undoubtedly have serious ...
Recently, the President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, traveled to the United States to meet with political and economic figures who will in some way demarcate the future of the country. The objective is to sign a military agreement between Brazil and the United States that seeks to strengthen ties between the two countries and join forces, among other things, against ...
The number of coronavirus cases in Latin America on Friday exceeded 11,000 – and that’s only according to official estimates. The region’s richest, yet most internationally and globally oriented country, Brazil, was the epicenter of the pandemic with nearly 4256 cases and 77 deaths. It was there, in São Paulo, that the first confirmed case of Covid-19 was diagnosed. Many ...
(see part 1 – The saga of Colombia: tragedy and rebellion in Latin America, XX-XXI century) The Colombian government’s corrosive stance towards Venezuela is well known. Duque has made his position very clear, maintaining a full diplomatic blockade. He considers Venezuelan President Nicolars Maduro a dictator who violates human rights of his own population in order to maintain power over ...
The history of the United States (US) strategic deployment in Latin America is extensive. Since the so-called Monroe Doctrine (1823, there has been no cessation in Washington’s interference throughout the southern half of the hemisphere in various ways. By the end of World War II, a global liberal order began to form and the world was divided into two poles ...
There are numerous international organizations today that aim to integrate, facilita trade and generally bring together countries throughout the Ibero-American region. The most promising among them for a long time was the Organization of American States (the OAS). However, this organization has proven unable to resolve some of the critical conflicts in the region and has repeatedly shown a preference ...