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The presidents of Venezuela and Guyana, Nicolás Maduro and Irfaan Ali, during their meeting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Celac silenced the drums of war that the US wanted to sound between Guyana and Venezuela

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KAREN MENDEZ
Peace won, at least for now, the commitment to dialogue won, Latin America and the Caribbean won, our people won, and today they can sleep in peace and hug their families without the fear of being overwhelmed by a war that they tried to impose. from outside.

The meeting served so that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean could learn more closely and in detail about Venezuela's position, so distorted and demonized by media corporations and spokespersons for hostile governments.

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Two nights in Santiago with Roger Waters

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VIJAY PRASHAD
"Stop the Genocide" in white letters on a red background appears on the screens above the band's heads, while guitars rip through the night.

Nobody puts on a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so are the soundscape, the images, the giant sheep and pig, the lasers, the movies, the energy of the fans who - despite linguistic differences - chant...

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Guyana, the spearhead of the US to expand militarily in Latin America

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KAREN MENDEZ
The United States intends to use a historic territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo to promote an armed conflict in Latin America, justify military expansion in the region and thus take control of the continent's immense wealth, as confessed by the head of the Southern Command, Laura Richardson.

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Earthquake announced

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LUIS BILBAO
It's not lightning in a clear sky. The collapse of the institutions of capital, the decay of the system and the stench of decomposition from its leadership, comes from afar. And in the last two decades it accelerated to a paroxysm. It is not a turn to the extreme right of society that caused the collapse, but the other way around: it is the collapse of capitalist democracy that caused a social spasm and this circumstantial electoral result.

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About Milei, the form and the substance

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PASCUAL SERRANO
My personal opinion is that Milei will simply be another neoliberal government, nothing out of the ordinary. Their shouts and radicalisms are just the new method, now dominant, of managing to raise illusions of rupture in outraged populations (we will see this in the analysis of the form, later), but without any ideological definition.

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In Argentina, the 'everyone leave' of 2001 is the 'don't fuck with me anymore' of now

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CECILIA VALDEZ
The surprise caused by Milei's emergence speaks, without going any further, of tired silent majorities and a profound indifference with a politics that does not challenge them, something that the sociologist Leandro Barttolotta has been mentioning in his studies for some time and that, In his own words, it requires in-depth investigation rather than quick diagnoses.

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A report from the US Congress recognizes the success of Russian media in Latin America

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PASCUAL SERRANO
Under the title “Russian influence campaigns in Latin America,” the so-called United States Institute for Peace (USIP) released a report a few days ago on the importance of Russian communications policy in Latin America, and especially its international media such as the Sputnik agency and Russia Today television. The USIP is a nonpartisan public institute, founded by Congress, as they say "with the mission of helping to prevent, mitigate and resolve violent conflicts abroad."

Among other things, the report highlights that Russia's communications policies have found fertile ground in Latin America" to "counteract the Western liberal order led by the United States."

José Manuel Martín Medem in Madrid. Photo: Paola Gómez

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Martín Medem: the idea of public service that governed the media has been adulterated

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
José Manuel Martín Medem is a veteran Spanish journalist specialized in Latin American information. He was a correspondent for RTVE in Mexico, Colombia and Cuba for a decade and is now a member of its Board of Directors. In 1982, he was awarded the National Human Rights Journalism Award.

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Milei, the lonely and violent boy who is presented as the new thing but is not

12 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
The journalist Juan Luis González has been investigating Milei and, through his figure, the so-called new Argentine right, since 2021. Milei represents and encompasses a phenomenon that came to kick the Argentine political board and question many of its most basic precepts regarding the consensus of democracy.

In a scenario of deep discontent due to a serious economic crisis that only deepens, the self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist presents himself as new and different, in relation to what he himself calls the “caste”, in reference to traditional politicians. and its privileges, but, as González's research demonstrates, it is neither new nor different.

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Genoud: “Massa is the price that must be paid to avoid Milei's rise”

9 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ

Almost 10 years ago, journalist and political analyst Diego Genoud decided to dedicate hours of his life to investigating and trying to elucidate Sergio Massa, the ruling party's candidate for president in the elections this Sunday, October 22. The result of that work was titled: “Massa, the unauthorized biography” (2015), but as he himself says: “Massa seduces”, and Genoud allowed himself to be tempted again by the figure of the now presidential candidate, and this year he published a second biography: “The careerist of power. The non-advertising story of Sergio Massa” (2023).

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Ecuador elects a new president between Correista González and businessman Noboa

8 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
Ecuador elects today, in the second electoral round, a new president between the Correista candidate, Luisa González, and the businessman Daniel Noboa. The call for early elections occurred on May 18, when Guillermo Lasso, the current president, decided to dissolve the National Assembly using a constitutional mechanism called “crossed death,” to avoid his impeachment.

Although González, the candidate of Revolución Ciudadana (RC), was emerging as the favorite for the first round, the latest polls indicate a slight increase in her voting intention that would not be enough to surpass Noboa.

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The two receptions of the BRI

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XULIO RIOS
The Belt and Road Initiative (IFR) celebrates its first decade of implementation in 2023. The time elapsed supports it as a long-term project. Two attitudes have marked the global reaction to it. On the one hand, developing countries have celebrated being able to have an alternative proposal that focuses on their most pressing needs, especially in terms of infrastructure.

China's plan provides specific support in areas poorly served by traditional available financing, filling a gap of singular importance. On the other hand, developed countries have evolved from initial ambiguity and reservation to a certain competitive hostility.