Chavismo From Below

Why some Venezuelan socialists have broken with President Nicolás Maduro.

What’s Next for Nuit Debout?

Ortega’s Next Term

Daniel Ortega is still despised by the Right. But that doesn't mean Nicaraguans have much to look forward to in his next term.

El Salvador’s New Battlefield

Twenty-five years after laying down their arms, the FMLN continues its struggle.

Assessing the Pink Tide

Pink Tide governments delivered much-needed reforms. But they also defanged the movements that brought them to power.

Unfinished Business

The Bolivarian Revolution went too far for capitalism but not far enough for socialism.

Lessons Earned

What have we learned from the Pink Tide’s years in power?

From the Underground to the Mainstream

Feminists in Argentina have achieved an unprecedented breakthrough on abortion rights.

Gustavo Petro’s Dream

Leftist candidate Gustavo Petro's success shows that whatever happens in Colombia's elections today, change has come to the country.

Attacking Antisemitism

The Left must be clear that there is a small minority of elites who control the world, enrich themselves, and immiserate the many. But it’s not Jews — it’s the rich.

The Guardian’s Populism Panic

Britain’s leading liberal newspaper has set out on a mission to define and defeat “populism.” It has not gone well.

Mexico in the Era of AMLO

In an inauguration ceremony unlike any other in Mexican history, Andrés Manuel López Obrador called neoliberalism a disaster. Now he must dismantle it.

ICE’s Vendetta Against Migrant Organizers

ICE is increasingly targeting migrant labor leaders for arrest and deportation. Their intent is to spread terror and discourage organization.

El Salvador’s Backslide

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 Worst Diplomat in the World

Jair Bolsonaro’s chief foreign policy architect is combining rabid nationalist rhetoric with pathetic submissiveness to the United States.

Honduras Is a Mirror for All of Latin America

Honduras has been under a decade of dictatorship, its 2009 coup heralding a reactionary tide throughout Latin America. Internationalist, anti-imperialist solidarity is desperately needed.

It’s About More Than Ricky

The toppling of Puerto Rico's centrist governor is a beautiful display of people power. The next target: La Junta, the Washington-imposed board pushing austerity and privatization.

Latin America’s Bitter Stalemate

The Pink Tide governments failed because they couldn't transform the region's economy. But the resurgent right doesn't have a solution to the economic crisis either — and the impasse is deepening the basis for violent, reactionary politics.

Building a New Chile Requires a New Social Contract

Frustration over life under neoliberalism has created mass revolt in the streets of Chile. But unless we build an alternative to failed neoliberal policies, a historic opportunity will be lost.

Chile Can Be a Laboratory of Popular Democracy

The social upheaval in Chile has made it clear that the country’s Pinochet-era, neoliberal constitution must go. But the process of replacing it cannot be a top-down affair. Like the popular assemblies that have carried the rebellion forward, it must be based on democratic mass participation.