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Latin America: A hostage to Trump's United States

Ana C. Carvalhaes — 2026-07-18T09:07:41Z

The largest region of the Americas is the only part of the planet where Trump has managed to make significant progress toward his national security policy goals. Trump faces significant difficulties on the domestic front, where he is trying to limit the predicted defeat for the midterm congressional elections in November.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Latin America, Bolivia

“Surprise” election result poses new challenges for the left in Colombia

Ana C. Carvalhaes — 2026-06-03T09:47:54Z

The clashes over the next 20 days on the streets, in workplaces and on social media in Colombia will determine not only the name of the country's new president – between a neo-fascist and a progressive – but also, to a large extent, the balance of power in South America. The Colombian presidential elections, with a second round on 21 June, are a precursor to the Brazilian elections in November and are of central importance to the construction of Trump's “shield” on the continent.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Colombia

Notes on the Political Situation in South America

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Israel Dutra — 2026-05-28T06:34:16Z

“In these notes, we address South America, where the complexity of societies, scandalous socioeconomic inequality, the presence of a so-called “middle” economy with its own influence in the region (Brazil), a tradition of struggle and organization on the left, and governments less subservient than the liberal right (such as those of Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay), imperialist interventionism faces more obstacles and has to moderate its attacks. In light of important electoral processes and tests in the class struggle posed by far-right and right-wing governments, such as those in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador, it is worth considering the commonalities across national contexts in the region in the coming months.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia

In defence of Cuba against the neocolonial blockade and starvation imposed by Trump

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Israel Dutra, João Machado, Manuel Rodríguez Banchs — 2026-02-13T18:09:32Z

The neo-fascist in the White House is attempting to bring the Caribbean island and its government to its knees, strangling it economically once and for all, killing its people with darkness and scarcity. But this is not “just” a war against Cuba and its revolutionary tradition. It is the continuation of the war against the sovereignty of all Latin American countries and Latino peoples within the United States. Scheinbaum, Lula, Petro, Orsi and the social democratic governments must emphatically oppose this crime in all international forums and organisations.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Cuba, Latin America

The US strategy, a threat to the peoples of the world

Ana C. Carvalhaes — 2025-12-16T11:25:19Z

Openly supremacist, colonialist and racist-xenophobic, Trump's national security strategy includes new or reformulated threats. It is old-style imperialism , adapted to deal with the current challenges to US hegemonic power.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / United States (USA), World

Hundreds of thousands protest against amnesty for Bolsonaro

Ana C. Carvalhaes — 2025-09-24T08:47:09Z

SÃO PAULO - Spring in the Southern Hemisphere began a day early in Brazil. On Sunday, 21 September, around 100 cities across the country – including the capitals São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Porto Alegre, Recife and Brasília – witnessed something unprecedented in the last three years: activism, the left and social movements took to the streets and squares, alongside a broader popular sector, equally outraged by two measures voted on by the Chamber of Deputies. The demonstrations in São Paulo and Rio were the strongest since the mobilizations for Fora Bolsonaro (Bolsonaro Out) between 2021 and 2022, and the celebration of Lula's victory on Paulista Avenue in October 2022.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Brazil, Protest movements

The pro-Maduro left abandons the workers and people of Venezuela

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2024-08-20T10:45:47Z

Unlike what had happened for the last 25 years in Venezuelan elections – and there have been dozens since Hugo Chávez's victory in 1998 – this time, after the presidential vote on 28 July, the broad Latin American left, including the entire body of supporters of ‘progressivism', has split from top to bottom.
An ever smaller, but still numerous, sector, full of intellectuals, echoes the argument of the São Paulo Forum , according to which, in order to save Venezuela and the region from US (…)

- IV595 - August 2024 / Venezuela

“For an independent PSOL”

Ana C. Carvalhaes — 2023-11-19T09:48:59Z

“But we must maintain the prospect of an independent PSOL, because this independence will be crucial in the medium term.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Brazil

Lula: from the “democratic front” to the “national unity” government

Ana C. Carvalhaes, José Correa Leite — 2023-05-25T08:56:42Z

“A systemic alternative will be organized with a program that allows the world of work to embrace all its heterogeneity and build the social and political alliances necessary to challenge for state power.”

- IV580 - May 2023 / Brazil

Region's dilemmas reflected on the streets of Colombia

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Israel Dutra — 2021-07-30T08:24:32Z

“The path will be neither linear nor easy, there will be ups and downs, defeats and victories. The big challenge is to be in the struggles, with this new combative generation fighter, to build with it (and not for it) our programme of rupture.”

- IV558 - July 2021 / Brazil, Colombia, Latin America, Ecuador, Bolivia