Nearly 50 protesters have been killed by police in Peru following the removal from office of President Pedro Castillo six weeks ago.…
Gregory Wilpert
Gregory Wilpert is a German-American sociologist, journalist, and activist who has covered Venezuela extensively for a wide variety of publications. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology (Brandeis University, 1994) and is author of the book, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chávez Government (Verso Books, 2007). He is co-founder of the website Venezuelanalysis.com, was director of the teleSUR English website, and host and managing editor for The Real News Network. Currently he works as deputy editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Lula da Silva was inaugurated for a third non-consecutive term as president of Brazil, dramatically reversing the country’s trajectory of the past…
The arrest of Peru’s leftist President Pedro Castillo represents the latest and most serious twist in the country’s on-going systemic political crisis,…
The election of the leftist Xiomara Castro as Honduras’s first female president means a significant rupture with the country’s recent right-wing – even fascist – past,
Interview on the origins of Venezuelanalysis and reflects on the relationship between commitment and objectivity in news reporting
With the left’s recent electoral successes in Peru and Bolivia, and previously in Mexico and Argentina, does this mean that there is a second so-called “Pink Tide” in Latin America?
Pedro Castillo, a leftist, unexpectedly won first place in Peru’s first-round presidential election last Sunday
Interview on the role of Norway in U.S. military policy
Nicole Fabricant says Bolivia’s new president Luis Arce faces a neo-fascistic right while negotiating a new relationship with the country’s social movements that fragmented under his mentor, Evo Morales
Spain faced the second worst infection rate in Europe, and took control of the country’s private health care companies to improve its response. What does this mean for Spain’s public health care system going forward?
