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New popular resistance in Latin America

Claudio Katz — 2023-02-07T12:02:14Z

Latin America continues to be an area convulsed by popular rebellions and transformative political processes.

- IV577 - February 2023 / Brazil, Haiti, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Honduras

Gustavo Petro tested in power in Colombia

Patrick Guillaudat — 2022-11-04T06:51:16Z

“Yet, very recently, the victories of Boric in Chile, Castillo in Peru and Petro in Colombia have shown that we are still in the same sequence... but with strong nuances. The anti-imperialist discourse of the first wave has largely faded and these three new presidents are much more inclined to expand their majority towards a part of the right.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / Colombia

Petro's Triumph and the limitations of “late progressivism”

Daniel Libreros C — 2022-08-05T08:26:59Z

“As soon as the electoral result was known, popular jubilation exploded. Thousands of people poured into the streets and squares of all cities to celebrate victory, while videos of people sharing that same euphoria for the "historic change" circulated in the most remote places in the country.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Colombia

Can Colombia's Left Survive the Persistent Logics of Armed Conflict?

Ben Gilvar-Parke — 2022-01-26T08:54:03Z

“The Pacto Historico, as a political movement, hopes to tie messages of national unity to social spending and poverty reduction, in what Villanuevas describes as not just a rejection of militarism, “but a social pact with Colombia's citizens.””

- IV564 - January 2022 / Colombia

A Multitude in Precarious Conditions - On the Colombian Strikes

Leopoldo Múnera Ruiz — 2021-08-06T10:26:40Z

“Authoritarian rule threatens to truncate once again the invention of forms of life that go beyond mere survival. […] If the protests are forced under a single political and programmatic logic, all of this could result in a new collective frustration.”

- IV559 - August 2021 / Colombia

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

The popular uprising is bringing down the neoliberal and militarist regime

Movimiento Ecosocialista de Colombia — 2021-05-25T09:44:46Z

“Neoliberalism does not die without killing, but the more it kills, the more it dies. What is happening in Colombia is not a Colombian problem, it is our problem, that of the democrats of the world,” Boaventura Dos Santos.

- IV556 - May 2021 / Colombia

Our solidarity with the Colombian people!

Fourth International Bureau — 2021-05-05T08:03:45Z

The Duque government massacre against the Colombian people must be stopped!

- IV556 - May 2021 / Fourth International, Colombia

“Latin America has once again entered a period of strong social and political turbulence”

Franck Gaudichaud — 2021-04-13T07:35:14Z

In this interview, Franck Gaudichaud considers the social and political dynamics of the recent period, and also current issues in the region.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia

From the crisis of progressivism to the progress of the crisis

Luis Rangel — 2020-03-01T06:45:21Z

In recent years, debates in the international Left on Latin America have tended to focus on countries with governments that, in different ways and at different tempos, separated themselves somewhat from their nations' traditional oligarchies (sometimes more discursively than really): Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador. In general, without downplaying their political and economic importance, but as the situation dictated, the emphasis has been on Venezuela, Brazil, or Argentina. Even Ecuador seemed to be an add-on to the “progressive axis” in international analyses. Then we saw, one-by-one, the progressive experiments fall, wear out, and enter into crisis. Debates revolved around the “end of the cycle” and the menacing Right coming for revenge. There were urgent calls to stop the enemy, and for unity.

- IV542 - March 2020 / Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Nicaragua