Latin America

Posted January 17, 2017 National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 577 Edited by Carlos Osorio For further information contact Carlos Osorio: cosorio@gwu.edu   A tribunal in Rome, Italy, today...

After years of protests by indigenous communities, the Spanish company Ecoener-Hidralia has finally abandoned the project to build a hydroelectric dam on the Cambalan indigenous river, in Guatemala. The company has informed this decision through a statement published in the media of the Central American country. The company had already paralyzed the work it was doing on the San Juan de Barillas indigenous territory months ago, and had dropped charges against leaders of the community that had been denounced and imprisoned for rejecting the project and protesting against it.

A catastrophic setback to environmental and indigenous protections was narrowly averted last week when quick action from two federal deputies prevented the agricultural lobby from forcing passage of bills to authorize construction of three mega-industrial waterways in the Amazon and elsewhere.

Brazil’s Dilma on being betrayed https://youtu.be/YcUQ_evqEpg Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff tells Mehdi Hasan her biggest regrets and proudest achievements. https://youtu.be/1FjU-lqxUpE      

La muerte de Fidel Castro ha dado lugar –en algunos grandes medios occidentales– a la difusión de cantidad de infamias contra el comandante cubano. Eso me ha dolido. Sabido es que lo conocí bien. Y he decidido, por tanto, aportar mi testimonio personal. Un intelectual coherente debe denunciar las injusticias. Empezando por las de su propio país.

The recent election of Donald Trump after Brexit, the rise of fascist votes in Europe, but also and much better, Syriza's electoral victory and the rise of Podemos are all manifestations of the depth of the crisis of the system of globalized neoliberalism. This system, which I have always considered unsustainable, implodes before our eyes in its very heart. All attempts to save the system - to avoid the worst - by minor adjustments are doomed to failure.

Guevara, born in Argentina, joined the movement led by Fidel Castro and other Cuban revolutionaries and became a commander in the Cuban Rebel Army. After the overthrow of the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, he became one of the central leaders of the new workers and farmers government. Guevara held a number of posts,

On Saturday, left-leaning politicians across the world remembered Fidel Castro and citizens paid tribute to one of the revolutionary icons of the 20th century.

Today, we say goodbye to one of the biggest patriots of Latin America, and why we lament his death, we evoke his example of humanity, we embrace each other and we continue walking the path of the undefeated leader of the Cuban Revolution and the unity of the peoples against colonialism and imperialism. Fidel definitively enters history with an

On Saturday at the annual Latin America conference, which took place at the TUC’s Congress House, a minute’s silence was observed. The former Respect MP George Galloway spoke of Castro’s legacy after tweeting a picture of himself with the late Cuban leader and declaring: “You were the greatest man I ever met Comandante Fidel. You were the man of the century. Hasta la Victoria Siempre. Orden. RIP.”