Workers Struggles: The Americas
Haitian police repress demonstration in Port Au Prince; Panamanians strike against Social Security ‘reform’; Wisconsin Cummins workers on strike against use of temporary workers, mandatory overtime.
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Hundreds of migrants in ICE custody go “missing” as deportees are jailed in El Salvador’s “terrorism” prison
These actions echo the crimes committed by fascist regimes in the 1930s, and the CIA’s “Operation Condor’s” cross-border repression by Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s.
•Andrea Lobo
Argentine retirees savagely assaulted for protesting benefit cuts
All the evidence points to a provocation by the Milei administration aimed at justifying an escalation of attacks on democratic rights.
•Rafael Azul
Brazilian teachers warn US counterparts: Trump is following Milei-Bolsonaro model to destroy public education and militarize schools
The following comments were made by Tomas Castanheira, a Brazilian teacher and member of the Socialist Equality Group (SEG), to the March 15 online meeting co-sponsored by the Educators Rank-and-File Committee (ERFC-US) and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE).
•Our reporters
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Police attack pensioners’ protest march in Argentina, while health workers strike throughout Chile.
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Brazilian education workers begin school year with strikes for decent working conditions
With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles have already spread to the education systems of several of Brazil’s capitals.
•Brunna Machado
Study exposes Brazilian dictatorship’s spying across Latin America
Throughout Latin America, the military and political heirs to the terror regimes of the 1960s and 1970s have once again been brought to the center of political developments.
•Tomas Castanheira
Facing record unpopularity and multiple disasters, Peru’s president turns to austerity and repression
Boluarte ranks as the most unpopular president in the world, and not a day goes by without corruption or political scandals with far-reaching effects on society.
•Francis Portocarrero
Mired in crypto scandal, Javier Milei escalates war on Argentina’s working class
The approval of an IMF package and the appointment of the two judges by executive decree, both clear authoritarian power grabs, took place amid accusations of corruption against Milei in connection with the “crypto crisis”.
•Rafael Azul
US bans Chevron from Venezuela’s oil sector amid rising military tensions
The revocation of gas and oil licenses ends a financial lifeline for Venezuela, with catastrophic consequences.
•Andrea Lobo
Lula fires health minister amid new wave of COVID-19 in Brazil
In the two years that Nísia Trindade led the ministry, her tenure was marked by the largest dengue outbreak in the country’s history and the deepening of the “herd immunity” policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
•Guilherme Ferreira
Brazil faces threat of historic dengue outbreak in 2025
Brazil faces a potentially historic dengue outbreak due to government negligence, the reintroduction of serotype 3, and climate change, exacerbating the public health crisis.
•Fátima Ferrante
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Workers in Buenos Aires occupied the Anselmo Morvillo printing plant to defend jobs, while in Mexico, thousands marched on the State Government House in Toluca to protest the social crisis.
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Enthusiasm for Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here intersects with burning political issues in Brazil
The film’s success is undoubtedly linked to a growing recognition that resolving the country’s acute political crisis is impossible without a serious reckoning with its history.
•Tomas Castanheira
On eve of Carnival, costume factory fire exposes deadly working conditions in Brazil
The frantic preparations for Carnival, driven by lucrative private investments, underly the dangerous working conditions at the factory.
•Eduardo Parati
Trump-Musk intervene against Brazil’s trial of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro for fascist coup attempt
Bolsonaro is seeking to benefit from the election of Trump, whose government has promoted fascist forces to establish governments of, by and for the oligarchy globally.
•Guilherme Ferreira
8-year-old Venezuelan boy drowns off Panama as migrants turned away by the US
This latest death, like the countless others before, is an indictment of the entire capitalist system.
•Marc Wells
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Workers protest Argentine President Milei’s cuts to pension and medical payments, while 500 contract drivers for the US Postal Service are spreading their strike across the US.
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Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro indicted for fascist coup attempt
The evidence paints a sinister portrait of the military-fascist cabal that controlled the Brazilian state under the Bolsonaro government.
•Tomas Castanheira
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Workers protest Panama pension privatization plan, while Alberta school support workers continue vote on strike mandates.
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