Two brothers detained after the disappearance of the English journalist Dom Phillips and the indigenous expert Bruno Araujo in the Amazon have confessed to murdering them both. According to news reports, Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, known as ‘Pelado’, and Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, known as ‘Dos Santos’, admitted […]
Latin America
Media hegemony does not allow a left-wing point of view
Bolsonaro’s neoliberal agenda -that mirrors the far right’s- worsens Brazil’s economic problems. There will come a time of general disillusionment, and the Left has to be intelligent enough, to galvanise all that anger, all that frustration y and build something. Nathan Raia The scenario is not very optimistic: […]
Boric’s eroding popularity
Even though they are problems that his predecessors left him (inflation, increasing violence and conflict in the Araucania region), they have put his government into a very sensitive and highly problematic situation that is generating a lot of tension. However, his plans to make Chile a better country are going […]
Governing is not enough, power must be exercised
If the candidate Gustavo Petro wins the presidential election in Colombia, he will be in government, but he will be far from having reached power, especially in the most decisive aspects of the term. Juan Diego Garcia This difference between governing from the presidency and really exercising power […]
Bolivia and its fight against drugs without the DEA
The decision has cost the South American country a defamatory campaign and efforts by the United States to weaken the coca growers’ movement. The US does not want to accept that the Bolivian model has produced unparalleled results in terms of transparency, sovereign policy and investment of its own resources […]