South America / Carribean

Articles

• Luis Sepulveda, Chilien, conteur et résistant
  17 avril 2020, par siawi3

  « Raconter, c’est résister »

• Luis Sepùlveda est mort
  20 avril 2020, par siawi3

  « il n’existe pas de répression, si dure et criminelle soit-elle, qui puisse entraver un peuple qui se lève »

• Silvia Federici : « Le fémi­nisme d’État est au service du déve­lop­pe­ment capi­ta­liste »
  20 avril 2020, par siawi3

  C’est un moment où le mou­ve­ment fémi­niste, dans toute sa diver­si­té, ren­contre les luttes popu­laires et les mou­ve­ments sociaux qui, depuis les années 1980, sont mon­tés en puis­sance contre les ajus­te­ments struc­tu­rels, la poli­tique extrac­ti­viste et le néo­li­bé­ra­lisme. Cette ren­contre sur­git d’une situa­tion concrète puisque toutes ces poli­tiques ont eu avant tout un impact sur les femmes et sur la repro­duc­tion de la vie

• How the Chilean uprising reawakened international solidarity
  20 April 2020, by siawi3

  When the state began cracking down on last year’s historic uprising, it opened deep wounds for many Chileans. After an explosion of protests brought widespread vandalism and looting, President Sebastián Piñera issued a state of emergency and brought the military out on the streets – echoing the years of life under the military junta.

• Validation as capture
  26 April 2020, by siawi3

  Idealization is the other side of the coin of disdain

• Cuba: Nuestros años verde olivo/ Our olive green years
  5 May 2020, by siawi3

  In the epilogue to the most recent edition of Nuestros años verde olivo, Roberto Ampuero meditates on what led him to write his memoirs about his time in Fidel Castro’s Cuba in the form of a novel. He concludes that only novels are able to fully capture the realities of human life, the depths of its moods and the texture of its circumstances, owing to the novelistic genre’s knowledge of the passions, cruelties and benevolence of the human soul.

• Reclaiming Populism - The view from Latin America.
  7 May 2020, by siawi3

  Who is ’ we, the people’?

• Argentina honours top official who aided Nazi war criminal
  6 June 2020, by siawi3

  Argentina is to honour a former health minister who protected a Nazi war criminal. It will put his image on the new 5,000 peso banknote, which comes into circulation this month. Move condemned by Jewish groups & Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

• « Nuestras Madres », sur les sentiers obscurs de la mémoire
  22 juin 2020, par siawi3

  Documentaire et fiction mélés pour évoquer avec justesse les effets douloureux mais vitaux d’un long passé de violence politique et de mensonges officiels.

• Brazilian Fundamentalists Blocked a 10-y.o. Rape Victim from Getting an Abortion
  19 August 2020, by siawi3

  Brazil, with it’s right-wing authoritarian government and inability to suppress COVID, has a lot of parallels with the United States. Their anti-abortion religious nuts are no different from our own. And certain parts of this story wouldn’t be out of place in parts of our country. When rescuing a fetus is more important to you than saving the life of a child rape victim, your priorities are completely distorted and no one should ever take your demands seriously.

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