Latin America
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun US threats can’t stop our growing relations with Central America: China reacts to visa restrictions

The US has imposed visa restrictions on Central American nationals for their links with China in its latest move to pressure countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to break ties with the Asian powerhouse.

Guo Jiakun, spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, standing in front of blue MFA background China rejects US accusations of “incursion” in Latin America, citing Washington’s own military interference

China claims that unlike the US, which has tried to hegemonize their politics and economic decision making for decades, Beijing enjoys friendly and mutually respectful relations with the countries in the South American region.

Trump and his impossible return to the past

In an act of desperation, Trump is trying to stop the clock to revive the ‘golden age’ of imperialism

Latin America’s IWD mobilizations challenge neoliberalism and patriarchy

Mobilizations demanded respect for women’s lives in the face of gender violence, as well as the end of the neoliberal advance in the region.

Chris Hazzard: “Now is the time to build socialist alternatives”

The annual Latin America Conference in London brought together voices from various struggles for national liberation and against imperialism.

Assembly of the Peoples of the Earth for the Amazon: movements launch collective letter with demands for heads of state

The document calls for concrete actions for the recovery of the Amazon biome and land titling for Indigenous and quilombola communities

Evo Morales: “If lithium were in the hands of the states, we would be a world power”

The pre-candidate for president of Unión por la Patria, Juan Grabois, and the former president of Bolivia call for the nationalization of natural resource

Desperation at the US border

Thousands of migrants, driven by economic warfare waged by the US, find themselves in conditions of despair at the southern US border

UN IPCC report details accelerating, irreversible climate impacts and other stories

Today we look at the IPCC report on adaptation and vulnerability, the killing of 5 civilians by the Philippines army in a supposed “encounter”, and more

Venezuela launches Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples

The Institute has been created to strengthen global solidarity for all revolutions and social struggles of the people of the world

US blocks export of crucial N95 masks to Canada and Latin America

At a time when countries like Cuba and China are offering assistance and providing doctors and medical supplies to others, the US move is being criticized as self-centered

Antonio García: “The government forgets that the conflict in Colombia has social, political and economic causes”

Commander of the ELN, Antonio García, reflects on the mobilizations that have shaken the continent in the last couple of months and the response of the Colombian government to the mobilizations