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About Atilio Borón

Atilio A. Borón is a researcher and writer on politics, economics, international relations and imperialism, with a primary focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. He can be reached at aaboron [at] gmail.com or by visiting his website www.atilioboron.com.ar
  • Trump

    Trump and his distant forerunner

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on February 10, 2025 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    By glorifying the figure of William McKinley, president of the United States between March 4, 1897 and September 14, 1901, Donald Trump is trying to find a universally acclaimed precedent for his controversial policies in the political history of the United States.

  • President Trump Signs Executive Orders on Transparency in Federal Guidance and Enforcement

    Trump: Fast and furious

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on January 26, 2025 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    If anyone still doubts that the United States is the center of an empire, the show put on by the New York tycoon dispels all doubts.

  • President of Argentina Javier Milei. Photo: Resumen Latinoamericano/File photo.

    Democratic involution

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on July 21, 2024 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions.

  • ‘true to their ideas’ , photo: Bill Hackwell

    Leave Cuba alone

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on February 19, 2024 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    Has Cuba really failed if we do not see, as in the imperial metropolis, entire families sleeping on the streets in the middle of winter or under a scorching sun in the summer, children barefoot and dressed in rags, people rummaging through garbage bins looking for something to eat, or thousands of men and women destroyed by drugs, victims of a society possessed by a cruel individualism which condemns them to wander like zombies through the main cities to feed, with their addictions, the profits of the banking and financial corporations that are the final beneficiaries of drug trafficking, a business of close to a billion dollars annually?

  • To the Rescue of Lenin

    Atilio Borón

    The centenary of the death of Vladimir Illich Ulyanov, Lenin, is an appropriate occasion to invite the younger generations of militants to recover the formidable theoretical legacy of the great Russian revolutionary.

  • Atilio Borón | Facultad de Derecho

    Argentina: Milei’s triumph was a neatly planned media construction

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on November 20, 2023 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    CA: “How could Milei’s triumph, geopolitically speaking, affect the Region?”
    AB: “First of all, it will harm Argentina, because, in line with Washington’s demands, it will turn this country into a battering ram to reduce China’s presence in the Region, even at the cost of harming Argentina’s national interests, its exporting sectors and the labor force linked to them.”

  • Let Cuba Live, 2021.

    Cuba as a Country sponsoring international terrorism?

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on October 7, 2023 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    A few days before the end of its term in office, the Trump Administration once again included Cuba in the list of countries sponsoring international terrorism together with Iran, North Korea and Syria.

  • Atilio Borón

    Argentina: The IMF, a euphemism for politics

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on July 22, 2023 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    In recent times, any analysis on Argentine politics or the Argentine economy does not fail to mention the IMF as one of the fundamental, if not decisive, actors of national events. And its influence on the Government’s decision-making process, on what it does or does not do, more than deserves this recognition.

  • Jürgen Habermas

    Habermas and the war in Ukraine

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on June 24, 2023 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    The prevailing rarefied ideological climate that Germany and most European countries are suffering from today makes a very cautious call for prudence and negotiation a criminal offense that deserves to be punished with ostracism.

  • Cristina Fernandez

    A mass event: only an uprising will create the conditions necessary to resolve this crisis

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on December 10, 2022 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    This deplorable situation will not be resolved by relying on the self-criticism of the federal courts, on its proven (lack of) willingness to self-reform, or on an unproductive dialogue with the beneficiaries of the reactionary mafia occupying Argentinian justice and politics.

  • Simón Bolívar

    A lesson from Simón Bolívar: ‘To Hesitate is to Perish’

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on December 20, 2021 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Speech in remembrance of the One Hundred and Ninety-first Anniversary of the Liberator Simón Bolívar’s passage to immortality, on December 17, 1830, celebrated at Rivadavia Park in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, at the foot of the monument to Simón Bolívar.

  • Nicolas Maduro on Bolivia coup

    The coup in Bolivia: five lessons

    Originally published: Orinco Tribune (Translated on November 11, 2019 by JRE) (more by Orinco Tribune (Translated)  |

    The Bolivian tragedy eloquently teaches several lessons that our peoples and popular social and political forces must learn and record in their consciences forever. Here, a brief enumeration, on the fly, and as a prelude to a more detailed treatment in the future.

  • Clashes

    Agony and death of neoliberalism in Latin America

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on October 30, 2019 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    After nearly half a century of pillage, outrage and crimes of all kinds against society and the environment, we witness the downfall of the ruling model promoted enthusiastically by the governments of advanced capitalist countries; institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank; and self-righteous intellectuals and establishment politicians.

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    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

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