Geography Archives: Americas

For the Caracas-based La Minka collective, culture and bread-baking go hand in hand with the project of making a socialist commune.

Thousands of Chileans were beaten and sprayed with high-pressure water guns while marching to pay tribute to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.

The federal trial of the Uhuru 3 has begun. The egregious charges of being foreign agents don’t bode well for the future of free speech and the radical Black movement. However, the movement will continue to struggle and resist these attacks on human rights.

Daniel Jadue, a member of the Communist Party of Chile and the former mayor of Recoleta, was released after being held in preventative detention for 91 days.

Are you worried about food prices? If so, you are not alone. Some 70% of consumers are “extremely” or “very concerned” about the cost of food at grocery stores.

You never see the dehumanization of Palestinians in western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the genocidal assault on Gaza.

Establishment journalists have often worked closely with intelligence, military officials.

The policies favoured by the ruling class in other words are being pursued despite public opinion being palpably and systematically opposed to them.

How an evidence-free smear is being used to suppress those fighting for justice in Palestine.

Vice President Kamala Harris promises to build three million affordable houses if elected president.

Owen Schalk details how Canada’s policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.

The Venezuelan government said the seizure was “not an isolated action” and that it reserved the right to take legal action in response.

A DUTCH data protection watchdog has issued facial recognition tech Clearview AI with a €30.5 million (£25.7m) fine for creating an “illegal database” of billions of faces.

Cuba and Cuban science gained acclaim worldwide for producing very effective COVID-19 vaccines.

THE impact of the West’s encounter with the Americas was devastating for its people.

ON Independence Day–August 15th–we generally take stock of the path we have travelled since 1947. Today, I will take a different tack and focus on how or why a handful of European countries end up controlling major parts of the world.

Honduran President Xiomara Castro announced on August 28 that she ordered the suspension of the extradition agreement between her country and the United States.

Reginald D Hunter is the latest target of pro-Israel provocateurs feigning victimhood. Time to bring down the curtain on this pantomime, says Rivkah Brown.

Every day it is proven that some characters who have come to power in Latin America under the propagandistic cloak of projecting leftist positions have only been disguised, or rather infiltrated, to favor the United States in its goal of maintaining political and economic control in the region.

Studying capitalism, Karl Marx examined the Industrial Revolution in Europe. He explored conflict between worker and employer.