New US Strategy Threatens Latin America By: Raúl Zibechi In April, the United States government launched a potent counter-offensive to recuperate lost ground in a region that continues being vital for its global domination. No one in his right mind could imagine that the empire would let its influence in Latin America dissolve without playing [...]
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Raúl Zibechi: New US Strategy Threatens Latin America
Posted: May 26, 2012 in Raúl ZibechiTags: politics, US Defense Strategy & Trade
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Raúl Zibechi: What Comes After the Back Yard
Posted: April 21, 2012 in Raúl ZibechiTags: US influence in Latin America
What Comes After the Back Yard By: Raúl Zibechi After the recent sixth Summit of the Americas there remains little doubt that the Latin American region has changed. It stopped being the back- yard of a decadent empire that has very little to offer save military bases and threatening fleets. The double failure of the [...]
Raúl Zibechi: Local Resistances, Global Movements
Posted: March 14, 2012 in Mining, Raúl ZibechiTags: Latin America, Right to Water, Zibechi
Local Resistances, Global Movements By: Raúl Zibechi In June 2002, just 10 years ago, the first popular consulta (vote) of a communal character about mining on a large scale in the world was held in Tambogrande (northern Peru). More than 90 percent of the voters, some 25, 000 people, rejected the project to exploit gold, [...]
Raúl Zibechi: Land, Water and Resistance
Posted: February 10, 2012 in Raúl ZibechiTags: Argentina, Mining, Paraguay, Zibechi
Land, Water and Resistance By: Raúl Zibechi Para español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/02/10/opinion/024a2pol What is happening in Latin America in relation to the commons (water, land, biodiversity) is something more than a succession of local conflicts. At times the intensity of the confrontations gives the impression that we are marching toward a general conflagration, which for now has [...]
Raúl Zibechi: The Lefts and the End of Capitalism
Posted: January 25, 2012 in Raúl ZibechiTags: Capitalism, Latin America, Neoliberalism, the Left
The Lefts and the End of Capitalism By: Raúl Zibechi http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/01/13/opinion/027a2pol The current world financial crisis fragments the planet into regions in such a fashion that the world system approaches a growing disarticulation (breakup). One of the effects of this growing regionalization of the planet is that the political, social and economic processes no longer [...]
The Irresistible Advance of Militarization
Posted: October 23, 2011 in Raúl ZibechiTags: free trade agreements, militarism, militarization, Neoliberalism, Zibechi
para leer en español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/10/21/opinion/025a2pol The Irresistible Advance of Militarization By: Raúl Zibechi The recent approval of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia and the United States reaffirms the militarist policy of Barack Obama’s government towards Latin America, as the principal path for resolving the economic crisis and the decline of global and regional hegemony. [...]
