troops (maybe)

In a platitude-ridden joint statement, the sides said that they had cemented a process of joint collaboration in the exchange of information and management of the waterway:

“Our countries recognize the shared goals of ensuring efficient and transparent waterway port operations amid evolving environmental dynamics, including the realities of climate change and the need for enhanced security measures to combat illicit activities in waterway operations.”

Most importantly, the agreement allows for US military presence along the length and breadth of Argentina’s most important river route, upon which roughly 80% of all its agricultural exports, including grains and oils, travel.

...drug stuff

“We are going to ask the justice system for exceptional measures,” Bullrich said, “to meet the imposing challenges we face, to work against terrorist narco-criminals.”

After meeting with the Salvadorian president at a summit in Washington in February, Bullrich said the Milei government “is interested in adapting Nayib Bukele’s model,” which for the past few years has returned some sense of order to El Salavador’s streets. But in a telephone call with Bullrich last week, Bukele’s security minister, Gustavo Villatoro, warned that they are applying the model the wrong way round.

....about economy

Even the US economist Steve Hanke, an early supporter of Milei’s campaign and firm proponent of dollarisation of the Argentine economy, has described Milei’s policies as “financial engineering, kicking the can down the road and trying to put in place what really is just a plain vanilla standard IMF [International Monetary Fund] program.” On steroids. These programs, he said, “just don’t work and have a history of not working.” Which is true. Not only that, they also have a habit of visiting untold economic pain and destruction on the country’s poorer and middle classes.

Just as in 2001-02, public anger and desperation are rapidly rising in Argentina as economic conditions deteriorate. That anger could explode at any time. Which is why the government’s decision to adopt such a hardline security protocol so early into its mandate is so ominous. As the article in La Jornada notes, the term “terrorism” can, and often is, used to justify political and social repression, whether against political protestors, striking workers or indigenous Mapuche groups claiming historic land rights in Patagonia. No less ominous is the government’s decision to invite the US armed forces in to help manage Argentina’s busiest waterway.

On the 13th of March in 1979, the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) was proclaimed in Grenada after the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement overthrew the state in a socialist revolution, with Maurice Bishop serving as Prime Minister.

After coming into power, Bishop stated the goals of the NJM: "We definitely have a stake in seeking the creation of a new international economic order which would assist in ensuring economic justice for the oppressed and exploited peoples of the world, and in ensuring that the resources of the sea are used for the benefit of all the people of the world and not for a tiny minority of profiteers".

The new government developed an ambitious social program, initiating a literacy campaign, expanding education programs, worker protections, and establishing farmers' cooperatives.

During the PRG's reign, unemployment was reduced from 49% to 14%, the ratio of doctors per person increased from 1/4000 to 1/3,000, the infant mortality rate was reduced, and the literacy rate increased from 85% to 90%. In addition, laws guaranteeing equal pay for equal work for women were passed, and mothers were guaranteed three months' maternity leave.

The government suspended the constitution of the previous regime, ruling by decree until a factional conflict broke out, ultimately leading to Maurice Bishop's assassination. President Ronald Reagan launched an invasion of Grenada a few weeks later, on October 25th, 1983.

"We have attempted to show in this Manifesto what is possible. We have demonstrated beyond doubt that there is no reason why we should continue to live in such poverty, misery, suffering, dependence and exploitation...The new society must not only speak of Democracy, but must practise it in all its aspects. We must stress the policy of 'Self-Reliance' and 'Self-Sufficiency' undertaken co-operatively, and reject the easy approaches offered by aid and foreign assistance. We will have to recognise that our most important resource is our people."

• Manifesto of the New Jewel Movement (1973)

• Grenada’s Revolution History :hammer-sickle:

• Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us (1983) :red-fist:

• Maurice Bishop Speech – In Nobody’s Backyard (13 April 1979)

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Milei's sister ~~and alleged lover~~ used this March 8th day to rename the "Prominent Ladies Room" in Casa Rosada (argie white house) citing "discrimination against men".

That room hosted paintings and memorabilia of important women in argie history. Now the room os called "Historic Heroes Room" and will host paintings and stuff from both sexes.

wouldn't call it more polarized than ever (jacobin cmon), but seems like a not good situation tbh.

Our research on children migrating from the United States to Mexico began 25 years ago in the state of Georgia. There, we were observing the integration of Mexican-origin families and their children into local communities and school districts. As part of our fieldwork, we talked with school principals about these children. And they would often respond: “those students disappear.”

Where did these children go? Seven years later, we continued our research in schools in Mexico — and the “disappeared” children reappeared. Children who had lived in California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama, Illinois, Ohio, Washington, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Georgia, Indiana, Texas, Tennessee, Oregon, Kentucky, New York, and Massachusetts were found in schools in Nuevo León in 2004; then many more in Zacatecas (2005), in the state of Puebla (2009), in Jalisco (2010), and in the state of Morelos (2013).

A significant percentage of these children were born in the United States. The rest were born in Mexico, migrated to the United States, and then returned while still school age. They are all international migrants. Many underwent an atypical relocation, from a historically migrant-receiving country (United States) to a traditionally migrant-sending country (Mexico). The others, those born in Mexico, are return migrants.

read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/28/the-untold-story-of-children-moving-from-the-united-states-to-mexico/

Cuban-American writer and organizer will be interviewed by The Indy’s Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton on Tuesday, March 5 starting at 7 p.m.

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Cuban-American writer Danny Valdes penned an epic cover article for the February Indypendent about returning to his homeland for the first time. Traveling as a member of an international delegation, Valdes, a socialist organizer, had access to top Cuban leaders as well doctors, educators, community leaders and others doing the day-to-day work of building and sustaining a socialist system.

“What I … saw in Cuba,” Valdes writes, “was a vibrant culture of solidarity, a people of incredible warmth and resilience, a government that was trying and failing in significant ways to cope with modern realities, and yet a government that was trying.”

For Valdes, the journey was also deeply personal as he sought to reconnect with and understand the history of family members who had been persecuted by the Cuban government and fled to Miami more than a half-century earlier.

On Tuesday March 5, we’ll host a Zoom discussion with Danny and learn more about what he saw and what the future may hold for the Western Hemisphere’s only socialist state. He will be interviewed by Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton and take audience questions. This wide-ranging interview will offer a window not only into contemporary Cuba, but will invite us to reflect more deeply on the joys and the challenges of joining up with others to create a more just society, the personal sacrifices that political movements require and to what extent ends can justify means.

To register, click here. We will send you the Zoom link when we get closer to the event.

link: https://indypendent.org/2024/02/indy-to-host-cuba-conversation-with-danny-valdes-on-tuesday-march-5/

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Centuries go by but petty burshwá are always the same

there is this video on twitter of him in this speech

also the reuters article if you want to read about how israel was really sad and thought it is mean that he would say it

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration brought high hopes of reversing devastating environmental destruction. Will a new fossil fuel boom undermine promises for change?

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With record-setting fires in the Amazon dominating headlines in recent years, the global environmental imaginary of Brazil often brings up scenes of deforestation, threats of tremendous biodiversity loss, and violent displacement driven by the cattle, forestry, and agribusiness industries. Now, on the heels of a wave of oil industry privatizations, pressure has mounted around the question of oil extraction in the Amazon. While deforestation often tops the national and international agenda, less present is the question of air pollution from the country’s oil, gas, and coal industries.

Care for the environment, however, seems to be part of Brazil’s social fabric, or what brings a lot of people together. In January 2023, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to power on a platform of socioeconomic change and environmental protection. His appointments of Marina Silva to head the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and Sônia Guajajara to lead the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples were especially promising.

But a strong governmental commitment to environmental issues has been lacking. Lula has faced strong criticism for his lack of firm opposition to congressional moves that diluted the powers of both ministries, stripping them of tools to protect water resources, prevent land grabbing, and slow deforestation.

Brazil’s oil production increased in 2022 to 3 million barrels per day, mostly from its deep-water offshore pre-salt oil fields. The energy minister recently announced a projected goal of producing 5.4 million barrels per day by 2029, which would elevate Brazil to being the fourth largest oil producer in the world and lock the country into a carbon-intensive energy model. Giant corporations like Total, Equinor, and Petronas are already reaping the profits. On December 13, the day after the COP28 climate summit ended, the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency (ANP) auctioned drilling rights to 602 exploration areas, several in buffer zones of protected areas in the Amazon that would impact Indigenous and quilombola territories. The state oil company Petrobras—despite being discredited in a sweeping corruption scandal that played out between about 2014 and 2018—is now suddenly positioned to become a major corporate player regionally and globally.

read more: https://nacla.org/brazil-crossroads-oil-gas

For a small farmer in Rio de Janeiro state, a private port catering to the fossil fuel industry has brought a decade-long struggle to remain on the land.

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For several years, residents and small farmers in the Port of Açu region in northern Rio de Janeiro have been resisting the forced expropriation of their land. The small farmers note that only 10 percent of the land taken for the construction of the Port of Açu Industrial Complex is currently in use. They are also fighting for the company behind the port, Prumo Logística, to allow artisanal fishers to regain access to the Caruaru Reserve, which, due to the port’s expansion, ended up inside the Industrial Complex.

The Port of Açu was conceived in 2007 by EBX Group, an infrastructure conglomerate owned by businessman Eike Batista. During the company's financial crisis in 2013, EBX sold the project to the U.S.-based investment firm EIG Global Energy Partners. EIG controls the Brazilian holding company Prumo Logística, which now manages the Port of Açu. The port is strategically located for the oil and gas industry, as it is close to the Campos and Espírito Santo basins, both of which are sites of extensive offshore production.

According to the Port of Açu’s website, 30 percent of the country's oil exports pass through the port, which is also hosts the world's largest offshore support hub—with companies such as BP Marine, Vibra Energia, and Vast Infraestrutura operating servicing contracts with Shell, Total Energies, Petrobras, Equinor, and other companies. The port is also home to two combined-cycle thermoelectric power plants, GNA I and II, owned by Gas Natural Açu, and the private iron-ore mining terminal that serves the multinational company Anglo-American, the world’s largest producer of platinum.

Dona Noêmia Magalhães is a rural producer and representative of small farmers in the fifth district of São João da Barra in Rio de Janeiro and an active participant in the resistance against the port. She has recently received the Tiradentes Medal award, the highest honor given out by the state Legislative Assembly to those who serve the common good. In this interview, she discusses the port’s impacts on the community and her struggle to remain on the land and produce food, despite having suffered threats against her life as a result of her organizing.

I spoke with Magalhães over Zoom on October 6, 2023. Our conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

read more: https://nacla.org/oil-few-brazil-export-ports

Felipe Gálvez's award-winning film Los Colonos delves into Chile’s brutal settler-colonial past, exposing the consequences of cultural extermination and resonating with Latin America's contemporary Indigenous struggles.

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A t the southernmost tip of Earth, in the deepest Patagonian wilderness, Scottish lieutenant Alexander MacLennan (Mark Stanley) and his men navigate the vast unhospitable landscape at the behest of wealthy, Spanish landowner José Menéndez (Alfredo Castro). It’s 1893 and the reformist Chilean state is imposing its authority thousands of miles away from the modernized capital, Santiago de Chile. Governmental policy—to roll out agricultural development across the nation and stimulate the development of its furthest territories—has prompted a mass giveaway of land to Europeans willing to emigrate and bring their skills to the country.

Los Colonos, or The Settlers in English, directed by Felipe Gálvez Haberle, tells the story of the sociopolitical conflicts that emerged in the Patagonia during the mid-1850s as European settlers began arriving in large numbers. A small crew, led by Lieutenant MacLennan (Stanley) and Texan rancher Bill (Benjamin Westfall) who can “smell a Native a mile away,” has been hired to delineate a route for the livestock on the land gifted to Menéndez by the Chilean government. This seemingly simple task is met with fierce resistance by the land’s original inhabitants, the Selk’nam people. The men soon realize what is truly at stake and what the mission will involve.

MacLennan, an ambitious man hired for his military experience, needs a sharpshooter fast enough to react to the ambushes hampering his work. Segundo (Camilo Arancibia), a mestizo local that has been captured and forced to work for the men, has all the skills MacLennan is looking for: an ability to communicate with the Indigenous locals and superb gun capabilities. After a selection process in which Segundo’s outstanding marksman skills outshines the other candidates, MacLennan orders Segundo to join him and ranger Bill on their assignment for Menéndez. They force Segundo into betraying his own people and assist in the repartition of his own ancestral land, a task that leads him to wrestle with his own conscious when forced to carry out the most heinous acts of violence.

read more: https://nacla.org/the-settlers-los-colonos-necessary-anatomy-genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Buenos_Aires_Israeli_embassy_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing

It's based on the 2007 book of the same name by Naomi Klein. In it, she argues that not only is neoliberalism only possible to implement by exploiting periods of crises, but also that the USA and the bourgeoisie already understand that and will manufacture those crises when necessary to destabilise whole countries.

She tells the history of neoliberalism from this perspective, from Pinochet to Yeltsin to the War on Terror.

Milei and Bolsonaro's incompetence may be legitimate, or it may be an act, but we should never forget that all chaos generated from their apparent stupidity is useful for the ruling classes. This is why they happen. This is why they are sustainable no matter how many blunders, as they will still retain the support of the ruling class.

Don't ever fall for the trap that "Milei will collapse his own government" like significant chunks of the Brazilian left did with Bolsonaro.

The "critical" part is important: Her reading of the dissolution of the USSR is very shallow, and she even ends the whole documentary in a hopeful tone praising the Obama election. She's not a Marxist, but the documentary is still worth it, specially if you're showing it to non-Marxists.

The silence in the Anglo/international press is deafening.

Have another article in French from them

Free translation of a passage of the latter one to illustrate:

The banks, the schools and the government agencies have closed down in the northern and southern regions, while protesters block the main roads and avenues with burning tires and have frozen public transport.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Antonio_Olivera

This past week, federal authorities raided the home of Rio City Councilman Carlos Bolsonaro, son of former fascist President Jair Bolsonaro. (Interestingly, the Bolsonaros happened to have left to go fishing at 5 am shortly before the raid occurred).

As part of the investigation, the Brazilian federal police have revealed that the Brazilian intelligence agency ABIN worked with Israeli intelligence to spy on the electronic communications of over 30,000 Brazilian political dissidents, setting up a “parallel” agency to spy on political dissidents.

It has now been revealed that this group was used to spy on the ex-Rio state prosecutor Simone Sibolio, who was charged with leading the investigation into the assassination of Rio City Councilwoman Marielle Franco.

Sibolio left the prosecution in 2021, citing “federal interference” as making it impossible to investigate the case.

The gunman, who killed Marielle Franco, happened to have breakfast with Bolsonaro on the morning of the assassination in 2018 when Bolsonaro. At the time, Bolsonaro was a controversial Rio City Councilman with close ties to the paramilitary gangs that Marielle Franco was investigating as a Rio City Councilwoman.

Many questions linger in Brazil as to why the Bolsonaros just happened to take off on an early morning fishing trip right before federal police raided their home. Some suggest that they may have taken the fishing trip to destroy files.

read more: https://paydayreport.com/brazilian-intel-agency-spied-on-prosecutor-in-marielle-franco-case-teamsters-prez-settles-2-9-million-racial-discrimination-case-5000-minneapolis-teachers-walk-out/

Cuban revolutionary who founded the Rebel Army and one of its main leaders, together with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Raúl Castro and Juan Almeida, during the National Liberation War against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. He was also known as "El Comandante del Pueblo", "El Señor de la Vanguardia", "Héroe de Yaguajay" or "el héroe del sombrero alón" was an outstanding revolutionary of humble extraction and wide popular ascendancy due to his jovial character and natural detachment.

Camilo Cienfuegos was born in Lawton, Havana, on February 6, 1932. On September 21, 1949, at the age of 17, he entered the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts. Later, on March 10, 1952, when the military coup d'état led by Batista took place, Cienfuegos and a group of students went to the University in search of weapons to resist the dictatorship. At that time he established friendships with other young people who would play an important role in later events, Carlos Leijás, Israel Tápanes, Reinaldo Benítez and the brothers Mario and José Fuentes.

However, economic problems were serious and he dropped out of school and later traveled to the United States. He participated in several demonstrations and wrote for the newspaper La Voz de Cuba a critical article against Batista entitled "Moral Identification". But in 1955 in San Francisco he was arrested and deported to Cuba, joining the student struggles and being wounded in a protest demonstration. Imprisoned, tortured and booked by the dictatorial regime's hired assassins, he had to return to the path of exile in New York, joining the revolutionary opposition in exile.

On December 14, 1955, he was wounded by a firearm during a demonstration in honor of the Cuban independence hero Antonio Maceo; however, that did not prevent him from participating in the event commemorating the 103rd anniversary of the birth of José Martí in the Central Park. Once again, he was beaten and taken to the Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities (BRAC) where he was registered as a communist by the dictatorial government. Due to these circumstances, he decided to go into exile and in March 1956 he traveled again to the United States.

In September he was in Mexico, where he managed to establish contact with Fidel Castro, who was organizing a revolutionary expedition that would return to Cuba to begin the struggle against the Batista regime. Cienfuegos was the last one chosen, because he had no practical military knowledge, so he was sent to the camp in Abasolo, Tamaulipas, where he received training in guerrilla warfare and shooting practice. He received his baptism of fire along with his comrades in Alegria de Pio, on December 5, 1956.

A year later, in 1957, column number 4 was created, daughter of the mother column "José Martí", under the command of commander Ernesto Che Guevara. In the group, Cienfuegos fulfilled his role as head of the vanguard. In March 1958 he became the first leader of the movement to take the combat beyond the Sierra Maestra, to the Cauto plains. After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Cienfuegos became part of the high command of the Revolutionary Army as its supreme chief. Commander Camilo Cienfuegos was much loved for his humility, simplicity and frank smile, and his popularity was even compared to that of the revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

Thus, we can highlight Camilo Cienfuegos as one of the most important and beloved leaders during the revolutionary process that led Cuba to its definitive independence in 1959. On the other hand, he contributed to the political education of the members of the armed forces and the Cuban people. Likewise, in his speeches he made reference to the unity of the revolutionaries, to freedom, to the importance of the agrarian reform and other measures of the Revolution and he particularly dealt with the role and work of the members of the Armed Forces.

On the evening of October 28th, 1959, Cienfuegos' Cessna 310 ('FAR-53') disappeared over the Straits of Florida during a night flight, returning from Camagüey to Havana. Despite several days of searching, his plane was not found. By mid-November, Cienfuegos was presumed lost at sea. In 1979, the Cuban government established the "Order of Cienfuegos" in his honor.

• Amistad entre Camilo Cienfuegos y Ernesto Guevara :che-smile:

• el Che habla de camilo :che-poggers:

• El último discurso de Camilo Cienfuegos :fidel-salute:

• Documental: Camilo, Érase una vez un Comandante (Revolución Cubana) :fidel-salute-big: este es muy bueno, lo recomiendo

• Camilo Cienfuegos :red-fist:

hello everyone - happy Black history month 🌌 here's a massive archive list of Black and Marxist writing and film (with downloads!) to check out xoxo

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