Latin America

A pedestrian walks past a mural featuring oil wells in Caracas, Venezuela on August 29, 2026, a day after US President Donald Trump announced a deal giving the United States a stake in Venezuela’s oil reserves

The Trump–Rodríguez pact and Venezuela’s neocolonial subordination

The US-Venezuela oil deal, a product of the pact between “brutalist” imperialism and an authoritarian regime, represents the exercise of arbitrary power through neocolonial subordination, writes Emiliano Teran Mantovani.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright meets with Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodriguez at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, September 2, 2026.

Does Delcy Rodríguez have any options?

Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through the barrel of a gun, writes Steve Ellner.
Insurgents somewhere south of Mexico City, likely the state of Morelos, accompanied by their wives: Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

The Mexican left’s debates on race and nation

Tony Wood reminds us that one nation’s left cannot insist they have the answers for every other nation. Understanding different frames that arise out of local conditions can help us achieve the unity sorely needs.
Imagen: Fernando Salazar Acha/Getty images.

The left and ecology: An increasingly necessary relationship

Historically, the left relegated environmental demands, prioritising the capital-labour conflict over the capital-nature conflict. Today this is unsustainable: class struggles can no longer be separated from ecological struggles, contends Maristella Svampa.
Evo Morales ceremony

The irresistible rise and fall of Evo Morales

Against all the odds, Evo Morales built a political career that led to the pinnacle of power. Pablo Stefanoni looks at how did he did it, and the nature of his legacy.
Foto: Triada Colectivo. @colectivo.triada

Defeating Milei: Left strategy in times of reaction

A socialist policy that merely defines or denounces the far right falls short of the task, writes Martín Mosquera.

The ecosocialist alternative: An interview with Sabrina Fernandes

Sabrina Fernandes puts the case for ecosocialism, notes some of its important contributions to modern Marxist theory, and explains why we need an eco-territorial internationalism.
Russian oil tanker

Cuba: Where is the Russian oil? The truth that Moscow silences

Russia says it is Cuba’s strategic ally. But Russian oil is not arriving. Eduardo Miguel Álvarez Estévez looks at why.
Milei and Trump

The new frontyard: Why Latin America has become the playground for imperial and fascist experiments

William Callison and Verónica Gago unpacking Trump's end game in Latin America.
Cuban market

Cuba: Who will govern the market?

The crucial question is not how much market an economy can accommodate, but who governs that market and how wealth is concentrated, argues Wilder Pérez Varona.
Washington has escalated its neocolonial stranglehold on Venezuela after the June 24 earthquakes. (Jesús Vargas)

Venezuela: The urgency of shedding illusions

Elías Jaua calls for national unity to reclaim Venezuela's sovereignty and right to self-determination.
Shield of the Americas

The dark shadow spreading across Latin America

Trump and the global far right have made serious progress in Latin America. The next big battle against this neofascist wave has already begun in Brazil, writes Ana Cristina Carvalhaes.