President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is wildly popular among Mexicans at home and abroad. It’s not just because of his domestic policies: AMLO is also playing a key role in challenging US dominance in Latin America.
Elliott Abrams is one of America’s worst living human rights abusers. That the Biden administration would nominate him to anything other than a prison sentence is baffling.
Recently, Colombia discovered mass graves in a cemetery over 150 years old in the city of Cúcuta. The bodies, many of which were smuggled into the graveyard this century, reveal unpleasant connections between right-wing militias, business, and the state.
Colombia recently discovered mass graves in a 150-year-old cemetery in the city of Cúcuta. The bodies, many of which were smuggled in during this century, reveal connections between right-wing militias, business, and the state.
Syriza is the Left's best chance at success in a generation. But for socialists, the hard part starts after election day.
Data theft, spying, fabricated documents. The Spanish state is trying to derail Podemos and its challenge to elites.
Donald Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the course of his first term, he has come closer to starting new wars than ending the wars he inherited.
Haiti’s corrupt, US-backed president is facing massive demonstrations after refusing to step down. US intervention has stifled Haitian democracy and impoverished its people — and the protests are an effort to fight back.
The US has attempted to exclude several countries from next month’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. The move has only backfired, prompting a boycott of the summit and renewed calls for an alternative union of Latin American and Caribbean countries.
El Salvador’s far right is using Trump’s war on migrants for political gain.
In his new book, historian Greg Grandin shows why an expanding American empire has required an increasingly militarized border. And why America's founding frontier myth is finally coming to an end.
Few artists blend hip-hop and leftist politics like Rebel Diaz. We sat down with the group to talk about American imperialism, the current mass movement in Chile against neoliberalism, and the connection between hip-hop and community organizing in times of alienation and austerity.
Former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro may soon be Colombia’s first left-wing president. His candidacy has been met not only with smears, but credible threats of assassination from the Right.
For over six decades, Cuba has withstood US sanctions and pressure. Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad's latest work shows how the embargo is less a response to Cuba’s policies than a long-term effort to undermine its sovereignty and revolutionary ideals.
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (1954–2013)
Ecuador's minister of culture defends the social and political record of the Correa government.
As pressure for economic liberalization grows, what would it take to turn Cuba into a socialist democracy?
With its loss of the presidency in El Salvador’s recent elections, the gains of the revolutionary project launched by the FMLN in 1980 are in serious jeopardy.
The Mexican and international right are united in their efforts to delegitimatize the AMLO presidency.
US sanctions are killing ordinary Iranians by the thousands. Through its control over the world banking system, America’s sanctioning power flouts international human rights law and poses a threat to the world.