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The road to de-dollarisation will run through Saudi Arabia

December 17, 2022 Vijay Prashad

On 9 December, China”s President Xi Jinping met with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to discuss deepening ties between the Gulf countries and China. At the top of […]

Peru: the uprising of the Cholos

December 17, 2022 Rafael Bautista S.

“I am a Cholo and don’t pity me, those are coins that are worthless nothing and that the whites give like those who give money. We cholos don’t ask for anything, because if we lack […]

2 days before coup, U.S. ambassador in Peru, veteran CIA agent, met with defense minister

December 15, 2022 Ben Norton

The U.S. ambassador in Peru, a veteran CIA agent named Lisa Kenna, met with the country’s defense minister just two days before democratically elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo was overthrown in a coup d’etat and imprisoned […]

Peru: Chronicle of a coup in slow motion

December 15, 2022 Saheli Chowdhury

Dec. 14 — The fascist right wing of Peru was finally able to do on Wednesday, December 7, what it had been trying to do for more than a year — depose Pedro Castillo, the […]

Honduras condemns coup in Peru

December 15, 2022 Struggle - La Lucha

HONDURAS Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Government of the Republic COMMUNIQUÉ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Honduras communicates to the Honduran people and the international community: […]

Uncertainty in Peru as the people remain in the streets

December 14, 2022 Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell

Peru is experiencing a new episode of its long history of institutional crisis. Today, a new president occupies the seat in the Government Palace, only 16 months after the country elected the leftist teacher Pedro […]

The U.S. egged on the coup in Peru

December 13, 2022 Vijay Prashad and José Carlos Llerena Robles

On December 7, 2022, Pedro Castillo sat in his office on what would be the last day of his presidency of Peru. His lawyers went over spreadsheets that showed Castillo would triumph over a motion […]

Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia back Peru’s President Castillo, condemn ‘anti-democratic harassment’

December 13, 2022 Ben Norton

The governments of Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia released a joint statement supporting Peru’s democratically elected President, Pedro Castillo, saying he is the victim of “anti-democratic harassment.” Castillo was overthrown in a coup d’etat on December 7, […]

Five killed by police during anti-coup protests in Peru

December 13, 2022 Tanya Wadhwa

Dec. 12 — Since December 7, tens of thousands of Peruvians have been protesting in different parts of the country in rejection of the parliamentary coup that took democratically elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo out of […]

Miami hearing continues for illegally jailed Venezuelan Ambassador Alex Saab

December 13, 2022 Sharon Black

On Dec. 12, the U.S. federal court in Miami began hearings in the case of Venezuelan Ambassador Alex Saab, who has been falsely arrested and is presently imprisoned in a Miami federal penitentiary on trumped-up […]