BY DANNY SHAW & WILLIAM CAMACARO On November 25, 2020, the fighting peoples of the world lost a humble legend: Diego Armando Maradona. He was 60 years old at...
Tag: Latin America
BY BRUNO FUENTES In Chile, we use the word luma to describe what most people around the world know as a police baton. They are wielded by tens of...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Many in the Latin American diaspora view Marxism as an irrelevant Eurocentric theory and therefore an ineffective ideological tool for social change. Many diasporic Latin...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA In recent decades, Latin American and Caribbean states have started a process of formal inclusion of marginalized groups, such as Indigenous and African-descent communities, women,...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA There are countless historical narratives about the conquest of Latin America and the Caribbean. The dominant narrative claims that it was a spectacular victory by...
BY DANNY SHAW Since 1998, the year anti-imperialist military leader Hugo Chávez was popularly elected, when have we heard one positive word in U.S. media about Venezuela? Washington —...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA With the recent celebration of International Quds Day — a day of support for Palestine and opposition to the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, Gaza and...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Con la reciente celebración del Día Internacional de Quds — un día de apoyo a Palestina y oposición a la ocupación israelí de Jerusalén Este, Gaza...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Those of us who are fortunate enough to have been exposed to liberation ideologies sometimes go through an initial holier-than-thou phase. We go on to...
BY ANTICONQUISTA Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, once said: “There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.” In 2018, the...