South America

Interview with Juan Pablo Cárdenas (2008) In the 1990s, the right-wing Concertación governments adopted a policy of annihilating the centre-left print media that had laboriously emerged in the 1980s in opposition to the dictatorship. Basically, this was done by maintaining…

Despite a persistent rain, yesterday afternoon various social organisations grouped together in the Espacio Día a día por Julia Chuñil (Day by Day for Julia Chuñil) demonstrated outside the headquarters of four branches of the Chilean state to protest their…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced plans to sign an agreement to formally join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), signaling a deepening of ties between the South American nation and Beijing. According to government sources cited by major Colombian…

On behalf of myself and the Pressenza staff, I would like to acknowledge the recent passing of Suzanne Gepp. Suzanne was instrumental in developing and doing graphics for two of the first NYC Humanist magazines, both of which were Pressenza…

Nobody is complaining anymore about Latin America and the Caribbean being neglected by the hegemon to the north. The Trump administration is contending with it on multiple fronts: prioritizing “massive deportations,” halting the “flood of drugs,” combatting “threats to US…

In the first international translocation of wild species for release in the Southern Cone, Rewilding Argentina and Rewilding Chile, offspring organizations of Tompkins Conservation, have brought 15 Darwin’s rheas across the Andes from Patagonia Park, Argentina to Patagonia National Park,…

By Michelle Begue ]In Colombia, national reforms on healthcare and labor brought tens of thousands of citizens to the streets in support of President Gustavo Petro’s proposed changes. He proclaimed Tuesday, March 18, “Civic Day” and encouraged workers to make…

During her tenure as Commander of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) from October 2021 to her retirement in November 2024, General Laura J. Richardson oversaw a significant expansion of U.S. military presence and strategic alliances in Latin America and the…

(This is the first in a series of articles planned for this year that will explore possible links between Chile and Operativo Independencia.) By Maxine Lowy Fifty years after the introduction of the first systematic plan of extermination in Argentina,…

“Take your money with you,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, “it’s poison.” By John Perry and Roger D. Harris USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion…