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Mexico’s President reiterates Defense of Sovereignty, Non-Intervention amid tensions with U.S.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated on Monday that Mexico defends the principle of self-determination of peoples and their sovereignty, when questioned about the cases of Venezuela and Honduras, both currently experiencing tensions with the United States. During her daily press…

Power grab in Peru: Prosecutor Delia Espinoza disqualified

The takeover of power has been completed. Despite being protected by law, Attorney General Delia Espinoza was not reinstated as Attorney General, and the Congress of the Republic barred her from holding public office for ten years. The public is…

The rage of the emerging privileged: Horizontal resentment as a mechanism of power in neoliberal Chile

There is a historical parable, sometimes attributed to accounts of slavery on plantations, that reveals a dark core of social psychology. An enslaved man sees another enslaved man from a neighboring estate, happy, riding a horse his master has given…

Groups fighting for prosecutor Delia Espinoza

Good governance is a right. A new day of street protests was staged today by various groups from Generation Z, the Callao Bloc, the CGTP Callao (General Confederation of Peruvian Workers), the Ama sua ama quella Independent Bloc, workers, social…

Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed

US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. By Roger D. Harris Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans…

When power loses its shame, the boundary between ethics, immorality, and crime disappears

Trust is the invisible foundation of a country. It’s what sustains everything: the rule of law, the economy, democratic coexistence. When trust is broken, it’s not just a symbolic bond that is severed: the entire structure upon which communal life…

Peru: Pedro Castillo is convicted, and the right-wing strategy diversifies

Blocking Candidates. The right wing’s veto of potential electoral candidates has been completed. Yesterday, Thursday the 27th, the Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court sentenced former President Pedro Castillo Terrones to 11 years, 5 months, and 15 days in…

Germán Altamirano: “Humanism Must Reach the Government”

Peru is on the verge of the 2026 General Elections, to be held on April 12, and, as in different parts of the world, presents a bleak political landscape, with high fragmentation and corruption in all branches of government. This…

Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions

Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives. By Roger D. Harris Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the…

Chaos: The Trump Doctrine for Latin America

The US, under Trump, is unapologetically an empire operating without pretense. International law is for losers. A newly minted War Department, deploying the most lethal killing machine in world history, need not hide behind the sham of promoting democracy. By…

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