The prohibition of immediate presidential re-election is now the backbone of El Salvador’s Constitution. It is one of the few clauses which cannot be amended, and the only one which, if violated, compels the people to insurrection. Luis Beatón When the Constitution of the Republic was approved in […]
Latin America
Ecuador and the United States strengthen relations
The visit of Samantha Power, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to Quito accentuates the presence and activities of her institution in the South American country, from where they were expelled in 2014 by the government of then-President Rafael Correa. The former president decided […]
In search of a healthy and undeniable nationalism
Since its embryonic beginnings as mercantile capitalism, two of the noteworthy characteristics of the capitalist system have been a marked tendency towards the concentration of wealth and a dynamic of territorial expansion. Juan Diego García The concentration of wealth does not mean that only large companies survive but […]
A new attorney general in Colombia: right-wing fear
The capture of the Colombian state by clans and wealthy families is the most valuable asset that those who form part of what they are calling the “Colombian establishment” are willing to defend. Germán Ayala Osorio* To this effect, they always need “pet” prosecutors, those who are friends […]
Capitulation after weeks of social mobilisations
In Guatemala, President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, besieged by the justice of the side of those ‘disobedient’ to Washington, signed a document of “capitulation” with the oligarchic side of those obedient to Washington. Most uncomfortable of all, he dragged into the capitulation the indigenous organisations that were already beginning to emerge as […]