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Supporters watch on a screen, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaking during a ceremony where he officially joined the Liberal Party, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, November 30, 2021
by Ben Chacko and Steve Sweeney
in central London
LESSONS from Latin America demonstrate the need to overturn the existing order to resolve three crises threatening humanity’s future, Labour MP John McDonnell told the Adelante conference on Saturday.
The Hayes and Harlington MP said that the pandemic had illustrated the need to confront Big Pharma and secure shared access to the technologies to defeat disease.
The second crisis was growing inequality both within and between nations, requiring a reckoning with finance capital, and the third was climate change that risks making the planet uninhabitable for future generations.
Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG