Tag: Latin America
Even the Opposition Believes Venezuela’s Election Was Legitimate
US Hits “Search and Destroy” Against China’s New Silk Roads
The relentless paranoia about the Chinese “threat” has much to do with the exit ramp offered by Beijing to a Global South permanently indebted to IMF/World Bank exploitation.
US Hits “Search and Destroy” Against China’s New Silk Roads
The top 1% of households own 43% of global wealth, 10% owns 81%, while the bottom 50% have just 1%
The top 1% of households globally own 43% of all personal wealth while the bottom 50% have only 1%. The 1% are all millionaires in net wealth (after debt) and there are 52m of them. Within this 1%, there are 175,000 ultra-wealthy people with over $50m in net wealth – that’s a miniscule number of people (less than 0.1%) owning 25% of the world’s wealth!
The top 1% of households own 43% of global wealth, 10% owns 81%, while the bottom 50% have just 1%
$427 billion lost each year to tax dodging by corporations and the rich: landmark study
$427 billion lost each year to tax dodging by corporations and the rich: landmark study
To ensure countries around the world don’t continue to lose hundreds of billions of dollars each year which could go to strengthening their public health, infrastructure, and education systems, the Tax Justice Network said, governments must promptly take three far-reaching actions:
– Introduce an excess profit tax on multinational corporations making excess profits during the pandemic, such as global digital companies, in order to cut through profit shifting abuses.
– Introduce a wealth tax to fund the Covid-19 response and address the long term inequalities the pandemic has exacerbated, with punitive rates for opaquely owned offshore assets and a commitment between governments to eliminate this opacity.
– Establish a UN tax convention to ensure a global and genuinely representative forum to set consistent, multilateral standards for corporate taxation, for the necessary tax cooperation between governments, and to deliver comprehensive, multilateral tax transparency.
The truth about Venezuela’s elections
The truth about Venezuela’s elections
The US and its allies are gearing up to delegitimise the results of the forthcoming election by branding it ‘undemocratic’ – but the country’s automated system is the most audited in the world, writes TIM YOUNG of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
‘Trump left a minefield between US and Venezuela’: Maduro says he’s ready to ‘work’ with Biden to mend relations
Times Editorial Lets Slip Joe Biden’s Latin America Policy: More Obama-Style Coups
Times Editorial Lets Slip Joe Biden’s Latin America Policy: More Obama-Style Coups
What the authors are referring to is a continent-wide campaign to unseat progressive leaders that ended in the jailing of Brazilian president Lula da Silva, the impeachment of his successor Dilma Rousseff, and the rise of the far-right authoritarian Jair Bolsonaro. The so-called Operation Car Wash (“Lava Jato” in Portuguese) was ostensibly an attempt to root out corruption at all levels of society. Yet leaked documents and recordings have shown that, from the beginning, it was a naked powerplay attempt by Brazil’s rich elite to retake control of society from the progressive Workers’ Party administrations through legal means.
NYT: Biden’s Plans for Latin America: End ‘Bully Dictating Policy’
Mr. Biden’s advisers say they would seek to revive the anti-corruption campaign that set off political earthquakes across the Americas starting in 2014, but largely stalled in recent years.
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Remembering Che Guevara on the 53rd Anniversary of his Death
Remembering Che Guevara on the 53rd Anniversary of his Death, by Yanis Iqbal
On 9 October, 1967, Che Guevara – one of the greatest revolutionaries ever known – was murdered in Bolivia under the orders of Washington. This death was foreseeable. In 1966, Che Guevara had left Cuba to wage an anti-imperialist struggle in the South American nation of Bolivia. The plan was to establish a mother column led by Che in Bolivia, with further guerrilla columns branching out from the main unit to enter the neighboring countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, thus creating a continent-wide revolutionary front. This anti-imperialist plan of action was based on the way Vietnam heroically resisted the full-blown onslaught of American hegemony. As Fidel Castro put it, “In the same measure in which Vietnam resists, the revolutionary liberation movement will grow in other parts of the world. Other fronts of the struggle for liberation will open throughout the world in direct proportion to Vietnam’s resistance.”
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Che Guevara and the CIA in the Mountains of Bolivia
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