Latin American Affairs

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Colombian novel “The night will be long” by Santiago Gamboa”

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“The night will be long” (sera largo la noche) is a story about the rise of evangelical churches in Colombia and Latin America.   Fabinho He...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Chile’s millennial President-elect Gabriel Boric lives up to his promise of empowerment of women

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Gabriel Boric, President-elect of Chile, has announced a cabinet with women in majority. He has given 14 cabinet posts to women out of the t...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Latin America projected to grow by 2 percent in 2022

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Latin America’s GDP is forecast to increase by 2% in 2022, according to the 12 January report of ECLAC ( UN Commission for Latin America and...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Argentine-Swiss film "Azor"

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The film “Azor” brings out vividly the sharp contrast between the cultures of the discreet and self-effacing Swiss private bankers and their...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

New Generation Leftist, promising to bury Neoliberalism, is elected as President of Chile.

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Gabriel Boric, the leftist candidate who won yesterday in the presidential elections of Chile, had promised to bury the Neoliberalism impose...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Bolivia, rich in Lithium reserves, is missing out on the global boom..

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Bolivia has 21 million tons of Lithium reserves, the largest in the world and one fourth of the total world reserves of 80 million tons, acc...
Sunday, December 05, 2021

Harsh Times – the latest novel of Mario Vargas Llosa

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Harsh Times (Tiempos Recios) is the latest offering of the Peruvian nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.  The novel is about the overthrow...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Return of the Left in the Honduras elections

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Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the socialist candidate, got elected as President of Honduras in the elections held on Sunday.  She is the first w...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Light at the end of the dark tunnel of Venezuelan political and economic crisis.

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In the regional and mayoral elections held on 21 November, President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist coalition won 20 of 23 governor posts and ab...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Chile’s presidential elections

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The rightwing  candidate Antonio Kast emerged as the lead winner with 28% votes in the presidential elections held on Sunday. This was predi...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Venezuelan economy has stopped bleeding and has started healing

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Venezuela’s GDP is forecast to grow by 1% in 2022.  What a pleasant surprise ! What a relief !.. after seven consecutive years of GDP contra...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

President Ortega’s reelection victory is a betrayal of democracy and socialism

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  President Daniel Ortega, won a fourth consecutive term in the elections held on Sunday. His wife Vice President Rosario Murillo, will cont...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

The role of IMF, US Treasury Department and the Wall Street in the financial crises of Asia, Latin America and Russia

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      The role of IMF, US Treasury Department and the Wall Street in the financial crises of Asia, Latin America and Russia   The Asian, Rus...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Debt addiction of Argentina and the debt traffickers of the Wall Street

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Argentina is in the news these days with speculations about the possibility of debt default, yet again....  The country does not have enough...
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