Argentina

Fact-checking the Heralded “End of the Latin American Left”

By Peter Bolton | Council on Hemispheric Affairs | May 27, 2016 Recent political developments across the region have prompted celebratory proclamations in the mainstream Western press that Latin America’s decades-long dominance by left-leaning governments is reaching its terminal stages. The landslide victory of the Venezuelan opposition in last December’s legislative elections, the impeachment of […]

Macri Gives Go Ahead to US Military Installations in Argentina

teleSUR – May 18, 2016 According to a report among the plans is also the negotiation of another military base in the border with Paraguay and Brazil. A military delegation sent by Argentine President Mauricio Macri on Wednesday signed an agreement on military cooperation with the United States, which entails the establishment of a U.S. […]

The ROUSSEFF IMPEACHMENT: What’s Really Going On in Brazil & Latin America…?

Brazil is in a crisis, that’s for sure. But general Western media portryal of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff seems only to have presented a simplified, one-sided picture of events. Dilma Rousseff’s supporters call the impeachment process nothing less than a coup. The impeachment effort against Rousseff has been mostly orchestrated by the political, media, […]

President Obama: The Race for the Imperial Legacy

By James Petras :: 04.29.2016 President Obama is racing forward to establish his imperial legacy throughout Russia, Asia and Latin America. In the last two years he has accelerated the buildup of his military nuclear arsenal on the frontiers of Russia. The Pentagon has designed a high tech anti-missile system to undermine Russian defenses. In […]

Argentina Forks Over $6.2 Billion to Vulture Funds

teleSUR – April 23, 2016 Former economy minister Axel Kicillof warned Friday that the decision would lead to harsh austerity in the country. Argentina repaid its holdout creditors on Friday, ending a 15-year dispute with vulture fund holders who rejected debt restructuring that followed Argentina’s US$100 billion debt default in 2001. “The republic has made […]

Brazil cannot be allowed to fall

Enough weeping! Latin America has wept incessantly, continuously, for years, decades and centuries. Its people robbed of everything since the days of Columbus, since Potosi. Tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions have been slaughtered here, in the last five centuries; first by the conquerors, then by their descendants and serfs, and finally by the Empire of Lies as well as the treasonous local ‘elites’.
Enough weeping, comrades! It is time to use force.

The US Media War against the Leaders of Latin America (II)

By Nil NIKANDROV – Strategic Culture Foundation – 05.04.2016 See Part I The defeat of the Kirchnerists in the recent presidential elections in Argentina was largely due to the publicity and propaganda advantages held by Mauricio Macri, the leader of the Republican Proposal party. Those advantages were provided by the Clarín media group that dominates […]

UN says disputed Falkland Islands are in Argentina territorial waters

RT | March 29, 2016 Argentina has officially expanded the outer limits of its continental shelf beyond the UK-claimed Falkland Islands, following a UN commission ruling which increased its maritime territory by 35 percent to include the waters around the disputed islands. According to the Argentinian Foreign Ministry, the newly introduced continental shelf borders are […]