Americas
United States warns Spain over Cuba policy
By Vicky Short, July 30, 2007
The United States has warned Spain about its policy towards Cuba as the imperialist countries seek power and influence there as Fidel Castro’s decades in power come to an end.
200 dead in Brazil air disaster: Lula government shows gross indifference
By M. Ybarra, July 26, 2007
The following article was sent in Portuguese by a Brazilian correspondent for the WSWS on July 22. In the meantime, the crisis of the Brazilian government has deepened, with President Luiz Inacio Lula...
Peru’s President Garcia faces nationwide protests
By Cesar Uco, July 20, 2007
Three weeks shy of his first anniversary in power, Peruvian President, Alan Garcia is facing nationwide mass protests against his political and economic program. Culminating in a two-day protest on Ju...
The assault on Rio’s favelas and the growth of state repression in Brazil
By V. Hugo, July 5, 2007
The confrontation between police and drug traffickers that broke out last week in the favelas, or shantytowns,of Rio de Janeiro reached a shocking level of violence. With the support of the national g...
Statement of the International Students for Social Equality to the students of the University of Sao Paulo
June 15, 2007
The following is a statement issued by the International Students for Social Equality to the students of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil’s largest university, who have been engaged in ...
Brazil’s social and political crisis deepens in Lula’s second term
By M. Ybarra, June 12, 2007
Barely six months have passed since Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began his second term in office in January 2007. As was to be expected, the political crisis that has beset the ...
Argentina: 13 years of pension “reform” boosts profits, impoverishes older workers
By Renato Santos, June 8, 2007
At the beginning of the 1990s, following the dictates of the international financial agencies, principally the World Bank and the IMF, some Latin American countries began an overhaul of their social s...
US attacks Venezuela: “press freedom” as a pretext for intervention
By Bill Van Auken, June 6, 2007
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday used the opening of the general assembly of the Organization of American States in Panama City to launch another US propaganda attack against the left nat...
Brazilian cane cutter died from working 70 days without break
By V. Hugo in São Paulo, June 2, 2007
After analyzing the working conditions of sugar-cane cutter Juraci Barbosa, 39, who died on June 29, 2006, the Brazilian government’s Public Ministry of Labor concluded that before dropping dead...
Evo Morales and the fraud of “nationalization” in Bolivia
By Jair Antunes, May 22, 2007
In a bombastic statement to the media earlier this month Bolivian President Evo Morales announced the concretization of his planned nationalization of the country’s oil and natural gas industrie...
Behind Negroponte’s trip to Latin America
Mounting crisis in Yankee imperialism’s ‘back yard’
By Patrick Martin, May 16, 2007
The week-long trip to Latin America by US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte signals a turn by the Bush administration to addressing the mounting challenges facing American imperialism in a reg...
Brazil: Bush-Lula biofuel plans based on conditions worse than slavery
By V. Hugo in Sao Paulo, May 14, 2007
The recent proclamation of an “ethanol alliance” between US President George W. Bush and Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva has been hailed by apologists for ...
