“With a few exceptions, all the presidents in Latin America are white,” notes Janvieve Williams Comrie, a pan-Africanist activist originally from Panama. “The racial dynamics are different,” said Comrie, but “the same racial structures exist” as in the rest of the hemisphere.
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ANDREW KORYBKO—Bolivia, a lithium-rich landlocked socialist state just fell victim to a Hybrid War regime change operation that risks embroiling the country in a more intense civil war than it already unofficially is in. Considering the possibility that any worsening of the crisis there could lead to similarly disastrous socio-economic consequences as the years-long one in Venezuela, it can’t be ruled out that a significant number of refugees might flee into neighboring Brazil, which could destabilize that already sharply divided country even more.
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EUAN GIBB—While Piñera was giving the orders to intensify repression in the streets, Chile’s National Institute of Human Rights reported a series of abuses and serious violations by the security forces throughout the country. “There are reports of excessive use of force at the time of detention, unfair harassment of children, mistreatment, blows to the face and legs, torture, stripping of women and men, sexual violations, among other violations.” The president’s response was to openly declare that Chile “is at war,” once again inflaming the population.
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Ecuador seems to be now on te brink of a civil war due to the rastic and treacherous measures implemented by Lenin Moreno, policies designed in Washington.
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JUAN PABLO CARDENAS—El golpismo de la derecha venezolana lo que sí ha logrado concitar es el apoyo de los gobiernos adictos a la Casa Blanca, de la OEA y de los grandes medios de comunicación que en el mundo y en Chile se descubren tan afines en su orientación editorial y con tan poca capacidad de mostrar los acontecimientos de Venezuela con un mínimo de independencia y dignidad. No se trata, ciertamente, de apoyar o defender a Maduro, sino de mirar con alguna independencia y ecuanimidad lo que sucede en Venezuela o al menos ofrecer más espacio a la diversidad informativa, de la que tanto Chile carece y pone en entredicho su pretendida democracia.
