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Elections in Central, South America Show a New “Pink Tide”

by   Michael Novick As Change-Links was going to press, voters in Honduras appeared to have elected the left candidate for president, ending 12-years of a coup-based conservative government (installed after Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed off on the overthrow of the elected president, Manuel Zelaya). According to Reuters, "Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro raced to an early lead in the Honduran presidential election on Sunday, November 28, partial election [...]

By |2021-12-02T01:34:19-05:00December 2nd, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Brazil, Honduras, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Politics, Poverty, Venezuela|0 Comments
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NATO in “Latin” America

by Rick Rozoff https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/natos-800-mile-border-with-south-america/#comments The website of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium featured a story on Bastille Day in which it interviewed a French officer with the SHAPE military police.  SHAPE had been based in France until Charles de Gaulle evicted it in 1967 when he withdrew from NATO’s integrated military structure. The interview was unremarkable until the Frenchman was asked what were some aspects of France [...]

By |2021-08-01T02:33:42-05:00August 1st, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Big Business, Brazil, Canada, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Columbia, Cuba, Donald Trump, Economy, Haiti, Historical, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Puerto Rico, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, War|0 Comments
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Stop Blaming Cows and Start Targeting the Corporations that are Destroying the Amazon

Stop Blaming Cows and Start Targeting the Corporations that are Destroying the Amazon by Anthony Pahnke httpss://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/Stop-Blaming-Cows-and-Start-Targeting-the-Corporations-that-are-Destroying-the-Amazon-20190827-0025.html Most of the reporting on the fires raging in the Amazon try to identify the guilty parties.  Some of those that have been identified include ranchers and loggers, as well as the rightwing government of Jair Bolsonaro for its lack of enforcing environmental regulations.  Yet, what we need to consider is that no single actor [...]

By |2019-10-02T05:31:28-05:00October 2nd, 2019|Anti-capitalism, Brazil, Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Movements, Politics|0 Comments
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