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  • Defending Venezuela from U.S. Imperialism

    Steve Ellner, one of my go-to sources on Venezuela, cautions that although the Maduro government has unquestionable shortcomings and is not above criticism, the left’s priority today shouldn’t be purity tests. It should be about the struggle against US imperialism, as it invokes the Monroe Doctrine and evidence-free, “narco-terrorist” narratives on behalf of regime change […]

  • Law, Not Crime, Has Come From South of the Border

    Not so much criminals as the foundations of the rule of law — that is what has infiltrated the United States from Latin America. That seems to be a major thread running through Greg Grandin’s wonderful new history of the hemisphere, America, América: A New History of the New World. It’s a book you can dive back […]

  • The Weakness of Progressive Latin American Governments in These Precarious Times

    The Weakness of Progressive Latin American Governments in These Precarious Times

    Andry León (Venezuela), José Gregorio Hernández, 2023. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 16 August 2024, the Organisation of American States (OAS), whose 1948 formation as a Cold War institution was instigated by the United States, voted on a resolution regarding the Venezuelan presidential elections. The nub of […]

  • DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate for Murder and Torture  

    There are three sources of power in Chile: Pinochet, God and DINA. — Chilean intelligence officer, remarks to a US military attaché, 1974 Decree 521 of the Chilean government of June 18, 1974, was a chilling moment in the country’s convulsed history.  With the state now in the pathologically disturbed hands of a military dictatorship […]

  • Transnational Corporations Provoke a Single Scream of Horror that Runs through the Vertebrae of the World

    Quentin Matsys (The Netherlands), The Tax Collectors, c. 1525–1530. Within the United Nations, there is a little-known debate about the status of global tax regulation. In August 2023, UN Secretary-General António Guterres released a draft document called ‘Promotion of Inclusive and Effective International Tax Cooperation at the United Nations’. This document comes out of a […]

  • Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On

    During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause.  In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to the Marxist tic, or at the very least the tic in waiting.  Any government deemed by Washington to be remotely progressive would become ripe targets […]

  • What if There Had Been No Coup in Chile in 1973?

    What if There Had Been No Coup in Chile in 1973?

    Gracia Barrios (Chile), Multitud III (‘Multitude III’), 1972. Imagine this scenario. On 11 September 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given a green light by the US government, did not leave their barracks. President Salvador Allende, who led the Popular Unity government, went to his office in […]

  • The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973

    The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973

    In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the 11 September coup against Chile’s Popular Unity government, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and the Instituto de Ciencias Alejandro Lipschutz Centro de Pensamiento e Investigación Social y Política release a new dossier analysing the coup and its effects on the Third World and non-aligned countries. On 11 […]

  • Build the Unity of the Youth of the World

    Build the Unity of the Youth of the World

    Angela Davis with DDR Minister of Education Margot Honecker and Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, East Berlin, 1973. Credit: ADN-Bildarchiv. From 28 July to 5 August 1973, eight million people, including 25,600 guests from 140 countries, participated in the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin (German Democratic Republic or DDR). The festival […]

  • Henry Kissinger Turns 100

    Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. — Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour (2002) If a heavy resume of crimes is a guarantee of longevity, then surely Henry A. Kissinger (HAK, for short), must count as a good specimen. The list of butcheries […]

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