José Antonio Kast campaigning in Chile in October -- Equipo Kast, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a toxic sweat that has spread across the region. It would be easy to say that this is the impact of Donald Trump’s own brand of neo-fascism, but this is not true. Th

Lands managed by Afro-descendant peoples in the Amazon experience dramatically lower deforestation and house some of the planet’s richest ecosystems—showing how centuries-old stewardship can guide global conservation. A view of part of the Brazilian Amazon -- Marinha do Brasil, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Reynard Loki Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers —roughly the size of the continental United States—the Amazon is the world

Image via X Various Sources Trump ally former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was arrested and placed in preventative detention on Saturday months after his conviction for attempting a coup, ahead of serving a 27-year prison sentence. Bolsonaro was sentenced in September to 27 years and three months in prison for orchestrating an attempted coup after losing the 2022 presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The Supreme Court convicted him of trying to undermine B

The Master Bank Scandal: FOR THE NATIONALIZATION OF BANKS UNDER POPULAR CONTROL! Political Statement from the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) This Tuesday, November 18, the Brazilian people learned of a police operation against a criminal organization that embezzled billions of reais from the Bank of Brasília and compromised additional billions in resources from pension funds of municipalities and the State of Rio de Janeiro. Since the headquarters of this criminal organizati

The end of the first week of COP30 saw a protest organized by social and environmental movements, bringing together Indigenous groups, youth, NGOs, and activists demanding climate justice, an end to fossil fuels, and real participation in negotiations. Image from the march via X By Manish Chandra Mishra, Mongabay Family farmers, traditional communities and Indigenous peoples led the People’s Summit Unified March, a climate justice protest, on November 15, bringing colour and

People march in Belem, Brazil on November 15 as part of the popular protests outside of COP30 -- news screenshot via X By Cade Dunbar On Friday, 17 October 2025, the UN Development Programme released the 2025 edition of its Multidimensional Poverty Index Report . For the first time, the report directly evaluates their multidimensional poverty data against climate hazards, exposing the extent to which the world’s poor are threatened by the environmental crisis. According to th

Washington’s unease is rising as Brazil’s Pix bypasses U.S.-dominated payment networks. The country’s digital payment revolution may soon be impossible to contain as other countries adapt their own models. By John P. Ruehl The Trump administration’s July 2025 decision to have the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) investigate Brazil’s “ attacks on American social media companies as well as other unfair trading practices ,” followed by the launch of 50 percent tari

Image via the PCC Via the PCC, translated from the Spanish The head of the Departamento de Atención al Sector Social of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Rolando Yero Travieso, held discussions with Ana Prestes, Secretary of International Relations of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) and Ricardo Alemão Abreu, Director of Cooperation at the Mauricio Grabois Foundation. Yero Travieso emphasized that this visit confirms the strong state of relation

Image via the PCC Via the PCC, translated from the Spanish The head of the Departamento de Atención al Sector Social of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Rolando Yero Travieso, held discussions with Senator Humberto Sérgio Costa Lima, Secretary of International Relations of the Workers' Party of Brazil (PT). Yero Travieso extended congratulations to the senator on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba for his recent appointme

In this special issue of the NACLA Report, we critically examine the rise of green capitalism in the region in the lead-up to COP30 in...

Bolsonaro testifying during his trial -- image via news video screenshot Various Sources UPDATE: After the fourth of five judges of the...

Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Marcelo Depieri Starting in the 1990s, a new form of...

The Trump agenda in Latin America is about protecting US economic and financial interests, just as it was under Kirkpatrick’s reign of...

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By Leticia Martínez & Alina Perera, translated from the Spanish RIO DE JANEIRO.- "Let us unite to promote the new international order we...

Latin American leaders from Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil have traveled to Moscow for the 80th anniversary of the Victory against the...