South America
US Media Promotes Military Intervention in Venezuela
The New York Times, the so-called US “newspaper of record,” carried an opinion piece by one of its columnists promoting “military intervention” to promote “democracy” by overturning the democratically elected government of Venezuela. By Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris…
Venezuelan President Maduro Assumes a Third Term – Prospects and Problematics
The first thing greeting me as I disembarked from my flight in Caracas was a wanted poster for one Edmundo González Urrutia. The reward was $100,000. Not to be outdone, the US had slapped a $25 million bounty on the…
Ecuador’s Coastal Ecosystems Have Rights, Constitutional Court Rules
The Constitutional Court of Ecuador has determined that coastal marine ecosystems have rights of nature, including the right to “integral respect for its existence and for the maintenance and regeneration of its life cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes,” per Chapter…
Film ‘Igualada’. History of struggles of Francia Márquez, Vice President of Colombia
IGUALADA: An “igualada”, a derogatory term (based on class, race, and gender) used to designate someone who acts as if they deserve rights and privileges that supposedly don’t correspond to them. Pressenza presents an interview with Juan Mejía Botero, director…
What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review
The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then,…
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and the National University Mothers of Plaza de Mayo received the Base Team of the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence.
The base team of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence visited the headquarters of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo University (UNMA) and the headquarters of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association and was received by its rector…
Premiere of the Italian documentary ‘The Cannon of Peace’ marks the imminent arrival in Chile of the 3WM
On the occasion of the arrival of the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence in Chile, Teatro Comunitario Novedades, the organisation World without Wars and the news agency Pressenza invite you to the South American premiere of ‘The Cannon…
The carousel of nonviolent journalism
On 22 November 2024, the international news agency pressenza was invited to present the different challenges it faces in its efforts to produce journalism for peace and nonviolence worldwide. The invitation came from the University of San Marcos in Lima,…
The Enduring Legacy of EPES Concepción: The transformation of women and their communities
By Maxine Lowy Along the north shore of the Biobío River, in the Chilean southcentral city of Concepción, illegal waste dumps and overgrown bushes proliferated. A short distance from there were modest neighborhoods where families crowded in flimsy houses. Rodents,…
US-backed Venezuelan Opposition Never Tried to Win the Presidency – Now, a New York Times Hagiography of its Leader
“On the campaign trail, she [María Corina Machado] was received almost as a religious figure, often wearing white, promising to restore democracy and reunite families torn apart by an economic crisis and mass migration. ‘María!’ her followers shouted, before falling…
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