Thousands of young people took to the streets across Peru in nationwide marches protesting government corruption and economic insecurity, just five days after former President Dina Boluarte was impeached, reports Ben Radford.
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During its first nine months, United States President Donald Trump's administration has been practising a more violent and bullying posture in the Americas, write Ana Cristina Carvalhaes and Luís Bonilla-Molina.
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CODEPINK’s Michelle Ellner responds to the announcement that Venezuelan right-wing opposition figure María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Bolivia suffered its worst-ever bushfire season last year. Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide, a new short documentary, focuses on the worst-affected Santa Cruz department, the heart of Bolivia’s agro-industrial frontier. Ben Radford reviews the film.
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Federico Fuentes joins the Green Left Show to discuss the role of Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in Venezuelan politics.
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Women and the LGBTIQ community have become the faces of resistance against the far-right Salvadoran government, writes Suchit Chávez.
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Mexico Solidarity Project spoke with unionist and Palestine solidarity activist José Luis Hernandez Ayala about the country’s foreign policy regarding Israel and Palestine and the country’s history of pro-Palestinian solidarity.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York, on September 23, calling for an international intervention to stop the genocide in Palestine and slamming the actions of the Donald Trump administration, reports Pablo Meriguet.
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Ecuadorians are resoundingly resisting the Daniel Noboa government’s neoliberal policies, despite heavy police and military repression, reports Ben Radford.
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A preparatory meeting for the First International Antifascist Conference, which will take place in Brazil next March, was hosted in Porto Alegre, reports Tatiana Py Dutra.
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United States forces launched strikes on two small vessels in the Caribbean, claiming they were transporting drugs. US officials have warned more strikes could come, including possibly on foreign soil. In the second of our two-part series, Green Left’s Kerry Smith speaks to Federico Fuentes about the US threat in the Caribbean and how the solidarity movement should respond.
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Against the United States government’s attacks on immigrants and countries in the region, representatives of Latin America’s trade unions, social movements and progressive parties will meet in Mexico City this month. Federico Fuentes spoke to conference organisers.