Latin America
Compulsory voting: the debate
19 February 2022 Judith Brett outlines Australia’s experience with – and makes the case for – compulsory voting, whilst Daniel Chavez shows how, for the left in Uruguay, compulsory voting is an essential foundation on which more direct forms of democracy have been built
Can Boric’s government end Chile’s Mapuche conflict?
15 February 2022 The president-elect’s new cabinet lacks indigenous representation. Will his government also ignore Mapuche demands? Carole Concha Bell reports
Apathy or strategy in Chile’s decisive election
19 November 2021 The frontrunners in Chile's upcoming election pit the far-right against the nominally left, Carole Concha Bell assesses how we got here
The political battle for Peru
21 August 2021 Leftist Pedro Castillo has promised change in Peru but Keiko Fujimori remains a political force in a hostile Congress, Paulo Rosas examines the path ahead
Cuba at a crossroads?
16 August 2021 The US embargo against Cuba continues to have a devastating impact, but recent protests also highlight the need for urgent domestic reform, writes Jamie Medwell
The communal cooking pot
24 May 2021 In Chile, community food networks and mutual aid tell us that the revolution starts close to home writes Jumanah Younis
The strike won’t stop
22 May 2021 Proposed tax reforms have led to weeks of protest in Colombia. Amidst brutal state repression, and with the initial proposals defeated, Colombians are now demanding much more, Philippa de Boissière and María Mónica Acuña report
Strength in numbers
17 May 2021 In Bolsonaro's Brazil, democratic resistance has brought about a surge in 'new municipalist' political initiatives. Cintia Martins Freitas considers the potential for collective candidacies and shared mandates
In Chile, a feminist green wave rises
8 March 2021 As Chile rewrites its Pinochet-era constitution, feminists are seizing the opportunity to legally enshrine women's reproductive rights. Carole Concha Bell reports
Review – Santiago Rising
28 January 2021 Grace Livingstone reviews Santiago Rising, a new film which portrays the recent eruption of protest against inequality in Chile
In Bolivia, the truth wins out
22 January 2021 Francesca Emanuele reports on recent attacks on Bolivia’s Movement for Socialism – and how the country’s voters were ultimately undeterred by disinformation tactics
The nationalist unconscious
29 June 2020 To fully grasp the rise of the new authoritarians, we must engage with psychoanalysis as well as economics, writes Richard Seymour
Brazilian oligarchs sacrifice people for profit
23 June 2020 Business leaders are using social media and political influence to spread coronavirus disinformation – and endangering thousands of lives. Raphael Tsavkko Garcia reports
Why is mining giant BHP able to dodge its responsibilities?
21 November 2019 The British-Australian company is complicit in the harms its joint owned Cerrejón mine has wrought on people and the environment in Colombia, writes Claire Hamlett
‘We are confronted by the threat of civil war’
14 February 2019 Edgardo Lander talks to Red Pepper about the mounting tensions in Venezuela
Criminalising social movements helped Bolsonaro win power
5 February 2019 Left-wing resistance was crushed before long before Bolsonaro's infamous election, writes Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
Brazil shows us how capitalism stamps out democracy
9 January 2019 With the rise of Bolsonaro and big corporations cannibalising the countryside, Brazil is living proof of Thomas Piketty’s assertion that capitalist accumulation in the 21st century is not compatible with democracy. By Sue Branford
Brazil’s road to neo-fascism
1 January 2019 Pedro Rocha de Oliveira considers the context of Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power in Brazil
Killing of indigenous activist in Chile provokes widespread protests
27 November 2018 Rodrigo Acuña reports on the death of Camilo Catrillanca, who was gunned down during a police raid.
Escape from fear
23 November 2018 Beth Geglia explains why thousands of migrants are risking everything to flee violence, poverty and oppression in Honduras
Did fake news win the Brazilian election?
30 October 2018 Bolsonaro's rise to power came with a welter of misinformation, rumour and lies. What role did 'fake news' play in the far right leader's victory? By Sue Branford
With Lula in jail, the future of democracy in Brazil is at stake
28 April 2018 As the Brazilian Election looms, Alfredo Saad-Filho examines what Lula da Silva's prosecution means for the future of democracy.
Open Letter: Honour Marielle Franco by taking up her fight
26 March 2018 "Our grief for Marielle Franco represents our commitment to all the women who fight with courage against oppression."
Venezuela can solve its own problems – the US only cares about oil
8 August 2017 The people could reach a democratic and non-violent solution if they were freed from US meddling, argues Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Civic strike paralyses Colombia’s principle pacific port
28 May 2017 An alliance of community organisations are fighting ’to live with dignity’ in the face of military repression. Patrick Kane and Seb Ordoñez report.
Introducing Trump’s Inner Circle
24 March 2017 Donald Trump’s key allies are as alarming as the man himself
We need popular participation, not populism
27 February 2017 Hilary Wainwright argues against reclaiming populism for the left and for a leadership that supports people’s capacity for self-government
A Cuban view on Fidel Castro’s legacy
28 November 2016 Musician Eliane Correa reflects on the fading revolution
Brazil’s Olympic Flames
4 August 2016 A bitter and chaotic political crisis threatens to take the shine off the Rio Olympics this summer, writes Tom Gatehouse
Public event: Brazil’s crisis – what does it mean for the global left?
5 June 2016 Red Pepper, the Latin American Bureau and Practical Action Publishing host an evening of discussion on the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and the future of the left in Brazil
Brazil: Recolonising a continent
30 May 2016 Sue Branford examines the past failures and future prospects of the left in Brazil in the face of a concerted US-backed right-wing offensive
Colombia: millions to take to the streets for peace
26 May 2016 Millions of Colombians will take to the streets this month to demand a different kind of peace with social and environmental justice at its heart. Seb Munoz writes
The Zika virus: government responses add to women’s burden
22 March 2016 The Zika virus is shining a light on the inadequacies of abortion and family planning laws in Latin America, writes Maisie Davies
London event: Festival of Choice 2015
21 September 2015 A week of events looking at threats to reproductive rights and the plight of women and girls who do not have access to safe and legal abortion in countries around the world
From Greece to Brazil: the challenge of forging a socialist alternative
17 August 2015 Sue Branford introduces a debate on the fate of Brazil’s Workers’ Party by drawing some parallels with today's Syriza
Maduro and the market
8 June 2015 With the recent plunge in oil prices and radicalised opposition forces, can President Maduro keep the Bolivarian revolution on track? Steve Ellner writes
From Ireland to Bolivia, there’s something in the water
8 June 2015 Fifteen years on from Bolivia’s ‘water war’, Thomas McDonagh looks at the developing parallels between those dramatic events and the current Irish battle over domestic water charges
Clandestine no more
1 June 2015 Right-to-choose campaigners Patsili Toledo and Lieta Vivaldi report on the struggle to legalise abortion in Chile
Pinochet’s press gang
1 April 2015 Want to know how much media ownership matters? Just look at Chile. Nick MacWilliam reports on a probing documentary into the El Mercurio media group
Smoke, mirrors and murder in Mexico
1 March 2015 The disappearance and killing of student protesters, with the involvement of federal police, has brought human rights to the fore in Mexico, write Ella McPherson and Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Vulture court
1 October 2014 Tim Jones explains why a US court ruling has forced Argentina into a debt default
A strong challenge for Brazil’s upcoming presidential elections?
18 September 2014 Tom Gatehouse offers a realistic assessment of environmentalist Marina Silva’s policies and ambition
Bolivia shows us that another world is possible
15 August 2014 After centuries of subjugation, Bolivia's indigenous peoples are leading the way on sustainability and equality, writes Joe Turnball
El Salvador pregnancy laws protested in London
18 June 2014 With some of the strictest anti-abortion legislation in the world, Salvadoran women face prison even for pregnancy complications.
Belo Horizonte: Culture brews from below
16 June 2014 A thriving alternative scene occupies buildings and streets in one of Brazil’s largest cities. Tom Gatehouse takes us on a tour
Is Venezuela burning? A debate
27 February 2014 As anti-government protests continue in Venezuela, Mike Gonzalez argues that only a deepening of the Bolivarian revolution can save it. Below, Federico Fuentes responds
Honduras: Force and fraud
17 February 2014 Social movements have denounced as fraudulent the election of Juan Orlando Hernández as president amid the murders of leftist party activists and the persecution of journalists. Roos Saalbrink reports
Chile’s fractured social movement
22 November 2013 Protests for better healthcare on an archipelago off the coast of Chile demonstrate the successes of local mobilisations, but also the failures of the larger social movement, write Rosalind Adams and Charlotte Sexauer
Allende’s socialist internet
11 September 2013 Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup
Chile: The first dictatorship of globalisation
9 September 2013 When General Pinochet overthrew Salvador Allende’s left-wing government in Chile, Mike Gatehouse was among the thousands of activists arrested. On the 40th anniversary of the coup he describes the hope and then the horror of the time
