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Alejandro Horowicz. Photo: Sergio Piemonte

Alejandro Horowicz: Milei was left with the most degraded of the caste

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CECILIA VALDEZ
Doctor in Social Sciences, teacher and journalist, Alejandro Horowicz is the author of "The Four Peronisms" (1985), his most notable work and with numerous reissues.

Critical and provocative, Horowicz has written a latest book: 'Kirchnerism unarmed, The long agony of the fourth Peronism' (2023), in which he addresses the future of this force that emerged after the 2001 crisis (explosion/corralito), and whose main references were Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

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While they tell you that in Davos they are going to fix the world

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The Oxfam organization has just published a report on inequality in the world, “Inequality SA”, which has the subtitle “A huge concentration of corporate and monopolistic power is exacerbating inequality in the global economy.” A work that brings a lot of light in these days when the media is dedicated to reporting on the World Economic Forum or Davos Forum.

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Will Machado be able to repeat the Milei phenomenon?

9 min read CLODOVALDO HERNANDEZ 0 comments

CLODOVALDO HERNANDEZ
Machado has been the protagonist in all attempts to violently take power, although now he claims to be a staunch supporter of the electoral confrontation with Chavismo. She was the standard bearer in the request for a foreign military invasion through the obsolete Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) and for years requested to radicalize the blockade and unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela, as a formula to remove Maduro from power.

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Milei's wild adjustment will have a full impact on the most affected sectors

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CECILIA VALDEZ
The measures announced by the new government imply an adjustment and a fierce devaluation, but also an unprecedented State Reform that completely deregulates the economy with measures that will fully impact the most affected sectors of the economy that already coexist with an interannual inflation of 160 %.

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COP28, a “tragedy for the planet”

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DAVID SPRATT AND IAN DUNLOP
Up to 100.000 people - most of whom derive their professional status and income from politics, defense and climate-related businesses - flew to Dubai to attend COP28, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention United Nations on Climate Change. And the result? An unmitigated disaster.

In the final session, a weak and incoherent compromise resolution between oil-producing countries and smaller states and climate advocates – which did not call for phasing out fossil fuels – was accepted without dissent.

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The infamous epilogue of the West

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JAVIER GARCIA
The genocide that we witnessed live in Gaza is the infamous epilogue of the decline of Western dominance over the world, its most illustrative image. It is the absolute collapse of all the values that the West once proclaimed.

No one who supports what is happening by action or omission, no one who, having been able to do something to prevent it, has not done so, will be able to talk about human rights again after this without their face falling with shame.

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On the “champion and commissioner” of human rights in the world

5 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
If there is any country that boasts of defending human rights around the world, it is the United States. In the name of these rights, it imposes sanctions on countries, freezes funds from other governments abroad, orders the arrest of world leaders and even their relatives, and intervenes militarily anywhere in the world.

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day this December, let's take a look at that country that takes on the role of global watchdog.

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

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

9 min read KAREN MENDEZ 0 comments

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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Death and destruction in Gaza

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JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
I don't think anything I say about what's happening in Gaza is going to affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want it on the record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.

What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose. As J-Street, a leading Israel lobby organisation, puts it: “The scope of the humanitarian disaster and civilian casualties that is taking place is almost unfathomable.”

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Two nights in Santiago with Roger Waters

7 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0 comments

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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Carbon colonialism, COP28 and climate crisis

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AMY GOODMAN AND DENIS MOYNIHAN
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While lobbyists enjoy virtually unfettered access to COP28, climate activists say they are finding it harder to secure credentials than in previous years. Add to this the UAE’s authoritarian and strict ban on protests, and the UN climate summit looks more like what climate scientist Kevin Anderson wrote on social media: “a cabal of oil producers, not a climate COP.”

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When “internationalism” becomes a dirty word

5 min read DANIEL LARISON

DANIEL LARISON
As long as the world's leading power refuses to respect the limits of international law, it will always be a destabilizing force in the world and will contribute to future conflicts. A principled, internationalist approach to the world requires that the United States not only respect the laws it expects others to respect, but also hold itself and its customers to the highest standards. Any attempt to establish exceptions or create loopholes for the US and US-aligned states will serve to undermine international law and encourage further violations.