https://znetwork.org/category/place/latin-america/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:46:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/latin-america/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-plea-to-save-cuba/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-plea-to-save-cuba/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:46:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296814 As Cuba teeters on the brink of an escalating US assault, my thoughts drift back to a trip my wife and I took to Havana and Trinidad (the Cuban city) in 2017. Shelly and I fell madly in love with a place so strangely unique that it wrestles with your intuitive sense of possibility. Everything [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-plea-to-save-cuba/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-opening-for-a-latin-american-united-front-against-corporate-lawsuits/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-opening-for-a-latin-american-united-front-against-corporate-lawsuits/#respond Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:36:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296761 For decades now, Mexico has faced a battery of lawsuits under trade and investment treaties that allow private foreign investors to bypass domestic courts and sue governments in international arbitration tribunals. It’s high time for President Claudia Sheinbaum to join with other Latin American leaders who are rejecting this corporate-driven, anti-democratic system. One of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-opening-for-a-latin-american-united-front-against-corporate-lawsuits/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-flotillas-fight-for-life-not-empire/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-flotillas-fight-for-life-not-empire/#respond Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:53:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296703 Flotillas have historically been fleets of military vessels—tools of empire designed for swift offensive or defensive operations at sea. The images they evoke are ones of imperial power and looming violence. Just look at the massive US naval buildup that surrounded Iran as part of the recent US attacks. But peace activists have also developed [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-flotillas-fight-for-life-not-empire/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ecuador-a-quasi-dictatorship-aligned-with-the-donroe-doctrine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ecuador-a-quasi-dictatorship-aligned-with-the-donroe-doctrine/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:50:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296712 After losing the 16 November 2025 referendum—when the Ecuadorian people rejected the government’s four questions, including the one that opened the door to foreign military bases—Daniel Noboa’s regime accelerated its assault on democracy. In the weeks that followed, it launched a multi-pronged operation that, taken together, constitutes a semi-dictatorship that has surrendered the country’s sovereignty [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ecuador-a-quasi-dictatorship-aligned-with-the-donroe-doctrine/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/order-without-law/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/order-without-law/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:56:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296666 Speaking to an attentive crowd at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) —the annual gathering of America’s right-wing elite that has since gone global—Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a man who has branded himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” 1 declared that a cabal of global elites was infuriated by the spread of their shared political project. These [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/order-without-law/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-communist-cuba/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-communist-cuba/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296623 President Donald Trump said a few days ago, “Cuba is next.” By which he meant: next after Venezuela and Iran. He also recently mused, I do believe I’ll be having the honor ​of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. I ​mean, whether I free it, take it. [I] think I can do [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-communist-cuba/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-blockade-to-tutelage-sovereign-funds-financial-hegemony-and-economic-subordination-in-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-blockade-to-tutelage-sovereign-funds-financial-hegemony-and-economic-subordination-in-venezuela/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:31:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296553 “With ones’ eyes to the ground, the march resumesuntil the next stumble, just a few steps away.And history repeats itself…” Subcomandante Marcos, Instructions for falling down and getting up Six days after the United States military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela that occurred in the early morning of January 3, 2026, the White House [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-blockade-to-tutelage-sovereign-funds-financial-hegemony-and-economic-subordination-in-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/end-the-blockade-on-cuba/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/end-the-blockade-on-cuba/#respond Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:12:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296521 This past weekend, I traveled to Cuba with the Nuestra América Convoy alongside a delegation of Cuban Americans to deliver aid and stand in solidarity with our fellow Cubans as a US-driven fuel blockade pushes the island deeper into crisis. We brought critical medical supplies to Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, one of Cuba’s most important hospitals, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/end-the-blockade-on-cuba/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/guatemalas-ongoing-memory-battles/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/guatemalas-ongoing-memory-battles/#respond Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:51:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296508 As a human rights activist, Angélica Macario was used to the hubbub and noise of protests and to seeing her people take their clamor for justice from the mountains of El Quiché to the streets of Guatemala City. For the past 20 years, however, she has carried on that legacy in another way—one which began [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/guatemalas-ongoing-memory-battles/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cubas-real-threat-to-the-united-states-is-a-socialised-model-of-development/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cubas-real-threat-to-the-united-states-is-a-socialised-model-of-development/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296433 On 29 January, Donald Trump published an Executive Order in which he described Cuba as “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States and threatened tariffs on any “foreign country that directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba”.  This has already resulted in the collapse of the national electricity grid [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cubas-real-threat-to-the-united-states-is-a-socialised-model-of-development/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-weight-on-delcy-rodriguez/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-weight-on-delcy-rodriguez/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296429 As I was leaving the University of the Communes in Tocuyito, after a joyful and uplifting visit, an earnest young Professor came up to me and pulled me aside. Very quietly, he asked me what was going to happen. A number of the students were terrified there would be regime change and they, picked as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-weight-on-delcy-rodriguez/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-war-on-cubas-doctors/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-war-on-cubas-doctors/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296406 “Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got a botched surgery. The work they’ve done for rural and poor Jamaicans is immeasurable”, wrote a Twitter user last week after the first set of Cuban doctors and nurses left Jamaica. Two weeks ago, hundreds [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-war-on-cubas-doctors/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/angolas-debt-to-cuba-is-unfinished/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/angolas-debt-to-cuba-is-unfinished/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296411 In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid. Amongst these are the names of two thousand and seventy Cuban soldiers who died in Angola between 1975 and 1988 for the liberation of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/angolas-debt-to-cuba-is-unfinished/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/argentina-50-years-after-its-darkest-night/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/argentina-50-years-after-its-darkest-night/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296422 It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent history: a dictatorship that combined state terrorism with a structural transformation of its economy. Throughout the 20th century, the country experienced six interruptions of its democratic order—in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/argentina-50-years-after-its-darkest-night/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rats-and-bananas-western-media-violence-and-freedom-in-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rats-and-bananas-western-media-violence-and-freedom-in-venezuela/#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:17:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296375 Venezuelans in the News On the morning of 26 March 2026, two crowds gathered outside of the federal courthouse in Manhattan where President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores sat awaiting their trial, set to begin at 11AM that day. On one side was a group of protestors gathered behind a large yellow banner [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rats-and-bananas-western-media-violence-and-freedom-in-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-pressure-on-cuba-continues-despite-arrival-of-russian-oil-tanker/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-pressure-on-cuba-continues-despite-arrival-of-russian-oil-tanker/#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1296362 A Russian tanker carrying around 700,000 barrels of crude oil has arrived in the port of Matanzas, Cuba, breaking the U.S. blockade imposed by President Trump three months ago. Fuel shortages in Cuba have caused dayslong blackouts and have brought all sectors of the country to the brink of collapse. The White House is claiming [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-pressure-on-cuba-continues-despite-arrival-of-russian-oil-tanker/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelan-leftist-recuperating-sovereignty-and-control-over-our-resources-is-essential/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelan-leftist-recuperating-sovereignty-and-control-over-our-resources-is-essential/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:16:23 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296313 Confusion and concern have followed the rapid pace of events in Venezuela after the US military incursion on January 3. Since then, the Venezuelan government has started to open its oil and mineral industries to transnational corporations, while there has been a constant parade of US officials and military leaders through the country. How should [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelan-leftist-recuperating-sovereignty-and-control-over-our-resources-is-essential/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/barbecue-empire-and-haitis-child-soldiers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/barbecue-empire-and-haitis-child-soldiers/#respond Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:16:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296256 A shaky video shot in the streets of Solino in October 2024 captures the reality unfolding in Haiti. In the clip, a contingent of young men and child soldiers wave guns in the air and chant triumphantly: “Take Solino! If you are not with Viv Ansanm, we will burn you all together.” It is a brief, jolting window into [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/barbecue-empire-and-haitis-child-soldiers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds/#respond Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:13:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296254 U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused to dismiss drug trafficking charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on March 26, even though the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is blocking funds for their legal defense, in violation of the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-i-saw-in-cuba-was-resilience/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-i-saw-in-cuba-was-resilience/#respond Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:40:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296206 I traveled to Cuba this month. As a Cuban American, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I knew only through descriptions from my father. I was there as part of an international solidarity convoy; [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-i-saw-in-cuba-was-resilience/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-is-the-future-sealed/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-is-the-future-sealed/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296160 Regarding the ongoing situation on the Caribbean island, we interviewed Roberto Livi, correspondent for the newspaper Il Manifesto, who has a deep understanding of the country’s social and political dynamics, having lived there for several decades. Can you give us a picture of the ongoing crisis? The situation has long been dramatic, exacerbated by the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-is-the-future-sealed/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/colombias-left-has-a-strong-showing-in-the-legislative-elections/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/colombias-left-has-a-strong-showing-in-the-legislative-elections/#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296112 In March 2022, the coalition of left-wing parties known as the Pacto Histórico (Historic Pact) changed the face of Colombian politics by securing the highest voter participation of any internal primary and an unprecedented amount of congressional seats for a progressive political movement. For the first time, the Colombian left had consolidated itself as the strongest force [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/colombias-left-has-a-strong-showing-in-the-legislative-elections/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-is-trumps-next-imperial-project/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-is-trumps-next-imperial-project/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:39:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296071 Another Nonexistent Threat Regime change in Cuba may be the next stop for the Trump war machine. Here’s what he told CNN in an interview March 6:  “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon . . . They want to make a deal, and so I’m going to put Marco ]Rubio] over there and we’ll see [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-is-trumps-next-imperial-project/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boomerangs-of-empire-latin-america-as-colonial-laboratory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boomerangs-of-empire-latin-america-as-colonial-laboratory/#respond Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:51:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296006 Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned on the sidewalk, its vendor disappeared. A young man is arrested at his job and secretly transported to a terrorism confinement prison in another country. These stories are not from Cold War Latin [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boomerangs-of-empire-latin-america-as-colonial-laboratory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-21-march-hit-the-streets-for-cuba/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-21-march-hit-the-streets-for-cuba/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:00:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295993 Donald Trump is plotting a “takeover” of Cuba. Washington’s lethal siege has already brought life on the island to a standstill. Millions have been plunged into darkness amidst rolling blackouts. Public transportation cannot operate without fuel. Shelves are empty of food. In 1962, the US State Department designed the Cuban embargo to “bring about hunger, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-21-march-hit-the-streets-for-cuba/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/open-letter-to-president-lula-mr-president-disobey/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/open-letter-to-president-lula-mr-president-disobey/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295951 I write to you with a heavy heart and a free mind. We cannot allow the Cuban people to die and the memory of the Revolution to be cast into the dustbin of history. This is not the time to assess the Revolution’s past or present. Mr. President, you know that over the years I [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/open-letter-to-president-lula-mr-president-disobey/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-cant-blockade-love-why-im-going-to-cuba/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-cant-blockade-love-why-im-going-to-cuba/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:20:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295900 I’m traveling to Cuba for the first time on March 21 to be in Havana with the Nuestra América Convoy, in which people from dozens of countries representing a variety of organizations will break the blockade, bringing much-needed supplies to the island. CODEPINK is bringing 6,300 pounds of medical equipment and medicine with help from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-cant-blockade-love-why-im-going-to-cuba/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/donald-trumps-whenever-wars/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/donald-trumps-whenever-wars/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:19:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295894 Donald Trump’s eagerness to use military violence, both in deploying armed forces to U.S. cities and in using them overseas, has become a defining feature of his increasingly authoritarian rule. His 2024 campaign posturing against U.S. “forever wars” aimed at regime change seems like a distant memoryafter the January operation to abduct Venezuela’s president, Nicolás [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/donald-trumps-whenever-wars/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-shield-of-monroism-the-angry-tide-and-the-neo-colonial-order-in-latin-america/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-shield-of-monroism-the-angry-tide-and-the-neo-colonial-order-in-latin-america/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295874 On 7 March 2026, at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Donald Trump inaugurated the “Shield of the Americas” summit, convening right-wing leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean’s “Angry Tide” around what he called a ‘counter-cartel coalition’. Washington’s recipe was stated plainly: “The only way to defeat these enemies is by unleashing [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-shield-of-monroism-the-angry-tide-and-the-neo-colonial-order-in-latin-america/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/years-of-meddling-in-cuba-and-nicaragua/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/years-of-meddling-in-cuba-and-nicaragua/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:21:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295839 The head of a prominent U.S.-funded nongovernmental organization has recently acknowledged years of involvement in subversive operations in Cuba and Nicaragua, some in defiance of executive policies. Damon Wilson, president of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), confirmed in testimony before Congress last month that his organization has spent years supporting dissidents who are seeking regime change in Cuba [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/years-of-meddling-in-cuba-and-nicaragua/feed/ 0