Opinions
By John Curiel and Jack R. Williams As Bolivia gears up for a do-over election on May 3, the country remains in unrest following the Nov. 10 military-backed coup against incumbent […]
By Victor Davis Hanson An ancient habit of Western elites is a certain selectivity in condemnation. Sometimes Westerners apply critical standards to the West that they would never apply to […]
By Sharon Lerner Last August, during the second-hottest year on record, while the fires in the Amazon rainforest were raging, the ice sheet in Greenland was melting, and Greta Thunberg […]
By Peter Kirsanow As the country commemorates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this weekend, it’s worthwhile to revisit the 1619 Project. Never content to leave unwoke history […]
By Keith Spencer Only three months ago, social media megalith Facebook made the universally-reviled announcement that they would not be fact-checking, censoring, or otherwise banning political ads that deceive or […]
By Jeffrey D. Pugh, Luis F. Jiménez, and Bettina Latuff As a result of its decades-long international conflict, Colombia produced more than seven million displaced persons, a large portion of […]
By David Wallace-Wells For once, the climate news might be better than you thought. It’s certainly better than I’ve thought. You may not have noticed it, amid the flood of […]
By Joe Emersberger Organization of American States (OAS) election monitors published a “final report” on December 4 on Bolivia’s October 20 presidential election, won by President Evo Morales — 22 […]
By Dinorah Azpuru In the past few weeks, violent protests in Latin America have resulted in destroyed property, thousands of arrests and dozens of deaths. Observers, including scholars of the […]
By Rafael Romo “What’s happening in Latin America?” That’s the question I’ve been getting in recent weeks from those who may not necessarily be familiar with the region but have […]
By Nick Estes Evo Morales is more than Bolivia’s first indigenous president — he is our president, too. The rise of a humble Aymara coca farmer to the nation’s highest […]
By Caitlin Johnstone There has been a military coup in Bolivia backed by violent right-wing rioters and the U.S. government, but you’d hardly know this from any of the mainstream […]
By Lev Golinkin Thirty years ago, on November 9, the world was stunned to see ordinary Germans tear down the Berlin Wall, the dreaded symbol of totalitarianism. Seemingly overnight, Communist […]
By Jorge Ramos There is a rage brewing in Latin America. Aware that they don’t live in real democracies, the people of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia are taking to the […]
By Mitch Anderson In July, a court in Ecuador issued a ruling with profound implications for the urgent fight to save the imperiled Amazon rainforest. The decision effectively blocked a […]
By C.N.V. and L.E.S. On October 2, Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno announced an economic decree that brought the country to a social and economic crisis. In March of this year, […]
By Mark Bradbury My beautiful country of Ecuador is in turmoil, not in shambles as some would have you believe, but we are definitely going through some very trying times […]
By Mark Weisbrot When people think of the damage that wealthy countries – typically led by the US and its allies – cause to people in the rest of the […]
By Chunka Mui I want to scream “You’re not helping!” every time I read a story like this one, which recently ran in USA Today: “End of civilization: climate change apocalypse could […]
By Andrew Russell and Lee Vinsel Innovation is a dominant ideology of our era, embraced in America by Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Washington DC political elite. As the […]
























