latin america

Hugo Chavez, undefeated! Why the rich and powerful hated Chavez

'So let the corporate media lie about Chavez in their cynical way.

`Foro Social Latinamericano', Green Left Weekly's Spanish-language supplement, March 2013 issue

March 2, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – Providi

Michael Lebowitz: Working-class response to devaluation measures in Venezuela

By Michael A. Lebowitz

Excerpt from new book, 'Race in Cuba: Essays on the revolution and racial inequality'

The following is an excerpt from Est

Venezuelan ecosocialist: Can the revolution be liberated from the oil economy?'

January 30, 2013 – Green Left TV – Part

Venezuela: Prospects for 2013

Vice-president Nicolás Maduro with Hugo Chavez.

By Steve Ellner

Venezuela: What is Chavismo?

A massive rally was held in Caracas in defence of the

Evo Morales: Ten commandments against capitalism, for life and humanity -- 'Manifesto of Isla del Sol'

Click image for the original Spanish edition of the Manifesto of Isla del Sol. The cover shows Morales arriving at the Island of the Sun in a replica of the balsa rafts that Andean peoples used for centuries on Lake Titicaca.

[For more on Evo Morales and Bolivia, click HERE.]

January 15, 2013 -- Climate and Capitalism/Life on the Left, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- On December 21, 2012, at a solstice celebration in Lake Titicaca, high in the Andes, Bolivia's president Evo Morales introduced the Manifesto of Isla del Sol. His talk, translated below, includes the full text of the manifesto.

Argentina: Kidnapping and forced prostitution verdict causes uproar

The case of Marita Veron would never have reached the courts except for the extraordinary courage, strength and persistence of Marita’s mother, Susana

Salvador Allende, Cuba and internationalism, 1970–73

Fidel Castro with Chile's President Salvador Allende upon his arrival at Pudahuel Airport in Santiago on November 10, 1971.

[For more articles by John Riddell, click HERE.]

By John Riddell

January 6, 2013 -- Johnriddell.wordpress.com, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the US-inspired rightist coup in Chile that overthrew the leftist government of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. The coup was a historic disaster for working people in Latin America and globally. Socialists worldwide saw it coming. How did they attempt to counter this danger?

Bolivia’s ‘process of change’: the balance sheet for 2012, challenges to come