The Thematic Social Forum Rio+20, taking place in Porto Alegre from 24 to 28 January, was a long awaited for event. The objective was to prepare the People’s Summit that will take place in Rio at the time of the UN-Summit in June...[more]
The Sao Paulo Forum (SPF) is an organisation of some dozens of left-wing and progressive parties from Latin America and the Caribbean. It has been working for several years and has considerable political influence in Latin...[more]
In the course of a seminar organised by the São Paulo Forum from June 30 to July 2 at Rio, which brought together ministers, political leaders and research workers from about ten Latin American countries (eight of which were in...[more]
This summer’s student demonstrations detonated the major social explosion our country is experiencing today after 17 years of an authoritarian regime and two decades of dashed hopes. Over and above this series of events that, in...[more]
Any analysis of the political situation in Brazil cannot ignore the significance of the victory of the forces of the left and of progressives when Dilma Rousseff was elected to the presidency of the Republic in October 2010. It...[more]
Any analysis of the political situation in Brazil cannot ignore the significance of the victory of the forces of the left and of progressives when Dilma Rousseff was elected to the presidency of the Republic in October 2010. It...[more]
The question I had been asked by the editors of this publication - “What has been the contribution of the Social Forums to the experiences of the left in Latin America?”- cannot be answered that easily. In order to learn lessons...[more]
Afflicted by epidemics and floods, Honduras has been, since the days of Francisco Morazán (1) not only one of the poorest countries of the region, but also the hidden battlefield between conservatives and liberals. Since the...[more]
Congressman Cesar Ham was a zelaya ally and organizer of the opinion poll on a new constitution Cesar Ham, presidential candidate and the head of Honduras' only registered leftist political party, the Democratic Unification of...[more]
Letter from Evo Morales regarding proposed new European Union Immigration policies Until the end of the Second World War, Europe was a continent of emigrants. Tens of millions of Europeans came to the Americas to colonize, ...[more]
After the huge march at the start of the World Social Forum, Wednesday saw the beginning of the more than two thousand debate sessions that make up the program, spread out by major thematic areas which point out the main claims...[more]