Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro traded accusations of lying and corruption in their first presidential run-off debate on Sunday, exposing the bitter divisions shaping the
When Argentine President Javier Milei bounded onto a stage in Santiago back in 2019 to greet Rolf Lüders — one of the last surviving “Chicago Boys” — he was paying homage to
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“The military operates behind our backs,” says Pedro Uc Be. “We know they will start mining, but they work in darkness, and for that precise reason we haven’t been able to say
More Argentinian President Javier Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, pulled off a surprising triumph in Sunday’s legislative elections, winning 40.84 percent of votes for Congress compared with 31.64 percent for the opposition Peronist
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Venezuela on Sunday condemned what it described as a military provocation by neighboring Trinidad and Tobago, coordinated with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, aimed at sparking a full-scale confrontation with the Latin
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Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa revealed on Thursday that an unknown assailant had allegedly tried to poison him with chocolate and jam laced with toxic chemicals, gifts he received at a public event.
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The Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, denounced today the coercive measures being exerted by the United States ahead of the upcoming United Nations vote on the resolution calling for the
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From the moment of his victory in Sunday’s presidential elections, Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz set the tone. “They squandered our gas, the lithium never appeared, and now we’re in crisis!” The centre-right
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Rodrigo Paz, 58, will officially take office as Bolivia’s new president on November 8, after winning a decisive victory in Sunday’s second-round elections with 54.6% of the vote, nine points ahead of
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A series of corporate bond blow-ups in Brazil has raised alarms about the stability of Latin America’s largest economy, with parallels being drawn to recent jitters in the US credit market following
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The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the “war on drugs,” the United States is actively executing a
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From Monroe to Trump, Unilateralism The famous Monroe Doctrine (MD) of 1823, which the peoples of the South know very well, is the first major unilateral declaration by the United States: “America for Americans.” Under
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Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls
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As tropical rain drenched his orange groves in Chapare, former Bolivian president Evo Morales planted a spade into the ground and stamped it hard, a symbolic gesture in the stronghold where he
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her long-standing efforts to promote democracy and human rights in her country, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced
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Spoiler alert – it already has. This is not a glib answer but a comment on the nature of the conflict. The US mission to wrench Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution out from its
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