On 11 April 2021, Guillermo Lasso (52,4%), the right-wing candidate, defeated Andres Arauz, the candidate supported by Rafael Correa and part of the Left, by 52.4% vs 47.6% in the second round of ballots for the presidential election.
In the Notes from the Editors to the March 2021 issue of Monthly Review, the MR editors questioned some of the arguments in Richard Smith’s book, China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse, as well as replied to Simon Pirani’s related criticisms (writing under his pseudonym of Gabriel Levy) of MR editor John Bellamy Foster on China and the environment. Both Smith and Pirani have written replies to our March editorial, which we are publishing here, along with our own rejoinder.
As tensions heat up on the Ukraine-Russia border, Vijay Prashad takes a look at the factors and interests behind what is happening.
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I entered my country’s House of Justice and found a snake charmer’s temple
April 16, 2021
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Facebooking While Brown: Indigenous man in Arizona imprisoned for Social Media “shock-talk” about #BLM protest
April 16, 2021
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Murder of Daunte Wright ruined Derek Chauvin show trial
April 16, 2021
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Truck drivers strike at Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
April 16, 2021
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Ramsey Clark dies: an Attorney General who turned against imperialism
April 15, 2021
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Grave concerns raised as Japan announces release of radioactive water into the sea
April 15, 2021
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In prison, today’s pandemic and shades of yesterday’s: What the fight against COVID can learn from the one against AIDS
April 15, 2021
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Support the Tropes
April 15, 2021
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From Rafael Correa to Guillermo Lasso via Lenin Moreno
April 14, 2021
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What about China?
April 14, 2021
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Sports, whatever the cost!
April 14, 2021
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Canada’s new Democratic Party passes motion to sanction Israel
April 14, 2021
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Judge Preska terminates all Zoom access to Donziger trial in effort to limit public access, say lawyers
April 14, 2021
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Dossier No. 39: Pity the Nation: Honduras is being eaten from within and without
April 13, 2021
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Samir Amin – a Marxist with blood in his veins
April 13, 2021
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COVID-19 – A socialist response
April 13, 2021
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Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History
April 13, 2021
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Chinese woman fights back against sexual harassment—with a mop
April 13, 2021
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American interregnum
April 13, 2021
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China and climate change: an exchange
April 12, 2021
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Rosa Luxemburg and postcolonial criticism
April 12, 2021
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Heterodox economics and crypto-Marxism
April 12, 2021
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Cold War on Trial: Truth Commission details horrible crimes akin to Native American genocide and slavery
April 12, 2021
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How Bellingcat launders National Security State talking points into the press
April 12, 2021

Dossier No. 39: Pity the Nation: Honduras is being eaten from within and without
On 28 June 2009, President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a coup d’état engineered by the Honduran oligarchy and the United States government. The reverberations of the coup extend into present-day Honduras, which continues to struggle to maintain its political sovereignty.