What is missing is a force able to summon citizens to the polls to punish corrupt politicians, allies of the mafia, and the beneficiaries of clientelism.

The Chilean press has pretty much overlooked one key fact regarding the homemade bomb that exploded in Santiago’s Escuela Militar metro station. 

Many of the arguments against raising the minimum wage are a clear example of how the ideology of the “free market” works to dismiss the misery suffered by millions of people for the sake of fidelity to an intellectual orthodoxy that mainly exists to aid the class interests of the rich. 

The Miraflores district of Lima has proposed a system to preserve the nation’s cultural heritage that could be revolutionary. 

The first “to cry, scream, kick, insult, and become hysterical are the libertarian, neo-liberal, right-wing columnists who will go to extremes of frenzied upheaval” if anything happens to their “admired and protected” classes and institutions. 

The criminal record of John Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, alias “Popeye,”looks at first sight to be “absurd” and wildly exaggerated, crediting him with the direct or indirect involvement in the death of over 3,000 people. 

There are two projects for reforming the countryside: one already proposed by the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto and its partners; and one offered by campesino organizations. 

Estela de Carlotto, president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, was recently reunited with her abducted grandson, Ignacio Hurban/Guido Montoya Carlotto, and it has brightened the mood in Argentina while generating more interest in further investigations.  It has also given the President’s popularity a boost. 

The “Monsanto Law” is a direct attack on Guatemalan sovereignty and could be introducing “a new process of colonialization.” 

We live in a market economy that has led to the creation of a culture of wasteful consumption.  It has set out to convert the human being into a “good consumer,” especially children and youth.