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Project 2025 Takes Shape In Latin America’s Far-Right Governments

October 1, 2026 Daniela Pastrana, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
The expansion of the far right in Latin America is giving continental form to Project 2025—the anti-democratic Republican plan drafted by the Heritage Foundation with the support of more than 100 Christian nationalist organizations in the United States and various officials close to Donald Trump. Although Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 before the 2024 elections, in the first year alone of his administration, he approved close to half of its policies, and they are now being implemented by the governments of Javier Milei in Argentina, José Antonio Kast in Chile, Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia, Laura Fernández in Costa Rica, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, Nasry Asfura in Honduras, and Keiko Fujimori in Peru.

Women In Power Or Power-Hungry Women?

September 23, 2026 Roger D. Harris and John Perry, Popular Resistance. , , , , ,
Women who attain political power are often judged by the US-aligned corporate press not simply by what they do but by how politically acceptable they are. This is evident in the strikingly different media treatment of three Latin American leaders, all lifelong leftists, raising the question of how relations with the US shape media judgments of political legitimacy. The Guardian’s profile of Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez acknowledges that she is a “pragmatic, witty and intelligent workaholic” who worked her way up the ranks. But the take-home message of the hatchet-job by author Tom Phillips is that she is a “belligerent, power-hungry chameleon…responsible for Venezuela’s slide into poverty and dictatorship.”

The Far Right Is Waging A ‘Holy War’ In Latin America

September 23, 2026 Álvaro García Linera, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
A reactionary wave is sweeping across the Latin American continent. With the exception of Mexico and Brazil—the region’s two powers—as well as Uruguay and Guatemala, the remaining countries have seen authoritarian far-right governments claim electoral victories. They have done so by narrow margins, yet they hold power and give voice to a mood of resentment and anti-egalitarian political aggression among a segment of the population. We are not dealing with the traditional liberal right that characterized the triumphant neoliberalism of the 1980s.

Protests Erupt In Lima Over Marco Rubio’s Visit

September 12, 2026 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
On Thursday, progressive social and political organizations called on Peruvians to protest against the presence in Lima of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In the center of the capital, people held sit-ins and marches rejecting the Trump administration official. “Marco Rubio, get out of Peru!” was one of the chants shouted through megaphones and highlighted on signs carried by citizens who also shouted slogans in support of Palestine and Cuba. “Our security depends on us, not Washington! Keiko is incapable of doing her job!” journalist and social activist Lia Valderrama posted on social media.

Plaguing The Americas With Misery In The Name Of Liberty

September 1, 2026 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Counter Punch. , , , ,
Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For 200 years, US leaders have never proved him wrong. In the early 1800s, Bolivar led what is now Venezuela and five other countries to independence from the Spanish Empire. But the United States still refuses to recognize the independence of other countries in the region. Wannabe emperor Donald Trump even refers to Canadian prime minister Mark Carney as a “governor,” as if Canada was merely another US state.

How USA Uses Criminals To Manipulate Elections In Latin America

August 28, 2026 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , ,
Latin America has been rocked by a major scandal that says everything about how politics works in the 21st century. It demonstrates how some powerful right-wing groups, with wealthy corporate backers and close links to the US government, have created a sophisticated machine of election manipulation. They weaponize social media, with armies of bots that spread nonstop disinformation, deceiving voters to put in power ultra-conservative leaders who will promote the interests of Washington and US corporations.

US SOUTHCOM Resumes Extrajudicial Killings After 63-Day Pause

August 25, 2026 Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
The US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has resumed its lethal attacks against small boats in Latin American and Caribbean waters. It killed two unidentified people in the Eastern Pacific this Sunday, August 23, after a 63-day pause that had raised hopes among human rights advocates that the extrajudicial killing campaign had ended. SOUTHCOM announced the attack through social media, claiming that its forces targeted a “low-profile vessel” allegedly traveling along a drug-trafficking route. It provided no names, nationalities, precise location, independently verifiable evidence of drugs, or indication that the people aboard presented an imminent threat.

Declaration Of A Zone Of Peace In Our Americas

August 24, 2026 Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, Black Alliance for Peace. , , ,
The organizations, social movements, and grassroots networks gathered here in Havana, Cuba, from August 15 to 17, 2026, as part of the “Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas,” commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, adopted at the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in 2014, as well as Maurice Bishop’s earlier concept of the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace in 1980. We reaffirm the full validity of that declaration and the unrestricted commitment of our peoples to ensure respect for this fundamental principle.

The Ugliness Of Latin America’s Angry Tide

August 23, 2026 Vijay Prashad, BreakThrough News. , , , ,
In August, right-wing billionaire Abelardo de la Espriella took office as Colombia’s president and vowed to move an agenda of the far right even though he won by less than a percentage point over the left-wing candidate Iván Cepeda. It is characteristic of the far right of a special type to adopt any mandate and pretend that they have the authority to transform their society into their toxic swamp. Of the twenty states generally thought of as being part of Latin America, eleven now have governments of the far right: Argentina (Javier Milei since 2023), Bolivia (Rodrigo Paz since 2025), Chile (José Antonio Kast since 2026), Colombia (de la Espriella since 2026), Costa Rica (Laura Fernández since 2026), Ecuador (Daniel Noboa since 2023), El Salvador (Nayib Bukele since 2019), Honduras (Nasry Asfura since 2026), Panama (José Raúl Mulino since 2024), Paraguay (Santiago Peña since 2023), and Peru (Keiko Fujimori since 2026).

Antiwar Mothers Resist Reactivation Of US Military Bases In Puerto Rico

August 19, 2026 Beth Geglia, Truthout. , , , ,
When Sonia Santiago Hernández learned in 2003 that one of her four sons would be deployed to Iraq by the U.S. military, she made a lifelong commitment: to help Puerto Rican youth stay out of the U.S. military machine. Over 20 years later, her organization Madres Contra la Guerra (Mothers Against War) continues to educate youth about alternatives to military service and to fight the many manifestations of U.S. militarism on the island. Victories led by coalitions of fishers, community members, and pro-independence activists like Rubén Berríos Martínez in the early 2000s managed to reduce the military’s footprint and environmental impacts in Puerto Rico.

Hegseth Announces Expansion Of US Military Sphere Of Operations

August 16, 2026 BreakThrough News. , , , ,
On August 12, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth visited Panama, where he attended the Coalition of the Americas Against Cartels (A3C). There, he met with ministers, deputy ministers, security and defense chiefs, and several high-ranking military officers from the Shield of the Americas, the new Washington-led regional coalition focused on “combating narcotrafficking”. In addition to the United States, member countries include Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, and the Dominican Republic (and, more recently, Colombia, following the change in government), all of which have declared their political and economic alignment with Washington.

SOUTHCOM Announces New Military Campaign

August 8, 2026 Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. , , , ,
The United States is once again escalating its presence in Latin America. On August 4, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) published a video announcing that it is transitioning from Joint Task Force-Southern Spear to Joint Task Force-Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM). Beyond the jargon and aggrandizement typical of U.S. military announcements, what this essentially means is that the United States is going from violating Latin American sovereignty in the waters of the Caribbean to violating sovereignty by carrying out operations inland.

The Changing Face Of Fascism In Latin America

August 7, 2026 Nel Bonilla, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
I’ve been watching two extraordinary analyses from Mexican historians and Latin American specialists—Christian Nader on Retrovisor and the panel on Contralínea’s América Insumisa—and I wanted to share some reflections on what they reveal about the evolving nature of right-wing politics in the region, and how it connects to the broader strategic logic of the US-led empire that I have been mapping under the concept of the Bunker State, the Fragmentationist Grand Strategy and the Multi-Layered Cage. The recent electoral shifts in South America—the razor-thin victories of the right in Peru, the rise of figures like Javier Milei in Argentina, the persistent strength of Bolsonarismo in Brazil—are often read as national phenomena.

Spy Networks And Hybrid Warfare By United States And Israel

July 24, 2026 Valeria Duarte Galleguillos, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
Continental intervention by the United States and Israel is intensifying at an accelerating pace. The sequence of events described in the audio recordings leaked three months ago in the Hondurasgate scandal has materialized rapidly. In less than 90 days, Mexico, Colombia, and Honduras faced media attack campaigns, disinformation operations, social media account hackings, and targeted attacks against electoral systems. The actions described in the recordings coincide with public statements and accusations subsequently made by the affected governments themselves.

Nicaragua’s Revolution Pulled Off The Upset Of The Century

July 20, 2026 Becca Renk Foster, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
Watching the 2026 World Cup matches has been excruciating for me. I always root for the underdogs: the teams from countries with few resources to dedicate to sport, who have made it there against all odds to play their hearts out for their country. As the game progresses, I watch my teams dance as they pass the ball up the field, run around defenders and set up a gorgeous shot on goal. I feel a wild hope – justice will be done!  Inevitably, my team loses. Sometimes to a better opponent, other times the outcome is more questionable.
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