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Argentina’s Fiscal Tightening Under the Milei Administration
Javier Milei, December 2025 -- Ministerio de Defensa, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Lucia Converti Javier Milei’s government took office in December 2023 with a strong rhetoric about the need to expand freedom. However, rather than expanding it, his economic policy reduces it. Neoliberal policy advocates a model of free enterprise, free trade, and free movement of capital that favors the extraction of national surplus toward core countries, limiting the possibilities fo

The Left Chapter
May 264 min read


The Mirage of Security: The Dangerous Bukele Model
The administration of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has given rise to a proposal we might call the ‘Bukele Model,’ in which, on the surface, has managed to politically seduce large majorities in our region to the point of making them prefer extreme authoritarianism in exchange for supposed public safety. Thanks to effective propaganda, this model may establish itself as a regional phenomenon in a ‘Our America’ marked by structural violence, where the promise of immedia

The Left Chapter
May 135 min read


Hondurasgate: leaked audio links Asfura, Hernández, Trump, Milei, Netanyahu in anti-left plot
The WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram audio recordings leaked by Hondurasgate reveal an alleged plot and secret agreements involving Honduran President Nasry Asfura, former President Juan Orlando Hernández (convicted of drug trafficking), Argentine President Javier Milei, and the US and Israeli governments, among others. Juan Orlando Hernández and Javier Milei By Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch In 2024, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted and sentenc

The Left Chapter
May 66 min read


Argentina, 50 Years After Its Darkest Night
Coup president Jorge Rafael Videla assuming power in 1976 -- public domain image By Julián Bokser 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 1976—but the last coup ushere

The Left Chapter
Apr 14 min read


The Cuban Revolution Holds Out Against US Imperialism
Banner and flag in Cuba -- Taymaz Valley from Ottawa, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad In January 2026, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US security—a designation that allows the United States government to use sweeping economic restrictions traditionally reserved for national security adversaries. The US blockade against Cuba began in the 1960s, right after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 but has tig

The Left Chapter
Feb 186 min read


Juan Grabois leader of Argentinian Patria Grande Front visits Cuba
Images via the PCC By Wennys Díaz Ballaga, translated from the Spanish To further develop the friendship and cooperation between the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and Argentina's Patria Grande Front, Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, a member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the PCC, welcomed Juan Grabois, the leader and founder of the Argentine political organization, at the Central Committee headquarters in Havana. Morales Ojeda expressed satisfaction that,

The Left Chapter
Feb 183 min read


The Current Situation in Venezuela: A Government in Charge, a People Resilient
Delcy Rodriquez sworn in as acting Venezuelan president with Maduro's son as part of the ceremony -- image via video screenshot on X By Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron On the early morning of January 3, the United States government launched a massive attack on Caracas, Venezuela, and three of the country’s states. Roughly 150 aircraft swarmed the skies, bombing with exceptional ferocity. Amongst these aircraft were EA-18 Growlers equipped with the most advanced electronic warfar

The Left Chapter
Jan 76 min read


The Angry Tide Has Washed Into Chile
Kast and Argentinian president Milei on December 16 -- Argentina.gob.ar , CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad On 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed over Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party of Chile by 58.16 percent to 41.84 percent. Kast ran as the candidate of the Cambio por Chile (Change for Chile) platform and was backed by all the parties of the traditional right and the cent

The Left Chapter
Dec 17, 20256 min read


Chile: Pinochetism Returns to Power
Kast campaigning in October, 2025 -- Equipo Kast, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Atilio A. Borón José A. Kast’s resounding victory in the runoff election is bound to have a profound influence on Chile. A solid, neo-fascist, extreme right-wing force consolidated as a result of the convergence of two radical variants of Pinochetism —one led by Kast and the other, even more extreme, by Johannes Kaiser— to which rushed to join the standard-bearer of a political fiction calle

The Left Chapter
Dec 16, 20254 min read


The Angry Tide of the Latin American far right
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

The Left Chapter
Nov 29, 20258 min read


A loucura não é Milei, é o projeto
Milei speaking in the US, February, 2025 -- Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia...

The Left Chapter
Sep 28, 20252 min read


Who Will Lose Out If the Rich Succeed in Helping the Right Win in Bolivia?
There is now a coordinated, well-funded network, backed by big capital, big business, and international financial institutions, working...

The Left Chapter
Aug 15, 20255 min read


The 18th Brumaire of Javier Milei
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Jorge Coulon ‘History repeats itself:...

The Left Chapter
May 6, 20257 min read


Argentina General Strike Demands End to Milei's 'Chainsaw' Austerity Policies
"The Milei government has picked a fight with workers and pensioners, and now they will feel the full force of organized labor," said one...

The Left Chapter
Apr 11, 20255 min read


Trump Ally Milei Threatened With Impeachment Over Crypto Stunt
"Look where you brought us with your madness! You turned Argentina into a casino where the croupier is the president himself," one...
Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20254 min read


Students, Professors, and Workers Call for Resistance Against Milei’s Attacks on Public Universities
By Global News Service Students, professors, and administrative workers at universities in Argentina are preparing for several weeks of...
Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20241 min read


The fascist plan against Venezuela
By Francisco Arias Fernández, via the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish If the abundant evidence of the crime, shown...
Michael Laxer
Jul 31, 20244 min read


'Argentina Stopped': Unions Hold Second General Strike Over Milei Austerity
"It is a day of resistance and demand," said trade groups that organized the action "in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the...
Michael Laxer
May 10, 20243 min read


Milei Celebrates Violent Repression of Thousands Protesting Hunger in Argentina
Image via X By Global News Service On April 10, the Federal Police and the Police of the city of Buenos Aires violently evicted and...
Michael Laxer
Apr 19, 20241 min read


5th People’s Health Assembly Begins in Mar del Plata
A panel at the assembly -- image via PHA website By Global News Service Over 600 activists from around the world have converged in Mar...
Michael Laxer
Apr 11, 20241 min read
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