IN NEITHER the barrios of Latin America nor the corridors of the Pentagon have the present day parallels of Venezuela with Chile been overlooked.
In the 1970s the Chilean propertied classes colluded with the US to destabilise the emancipatory government of Salvador Allende.
Allende’s Popular Unity government gave free milk for children, nationalised the copper and coalmining industries, reformed health and education and sparked a huge renewal of popular culture.
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance


