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Machinations in the US’s back yard
BERNARD REGAN looks at Donald Trump’s neoliberal vision for the Americas ahead of this year’s crucial Latin America Conference
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
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The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
ON SEPTEMBER 25, President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations general assembly.
In his speech he invoked the 19th-century doctrine of president James Monroe which asserted that the United States had a right to assert its control over the countries of the region and that the US would not tolerate any expansionist foreign power encroaching on the western hemisphere.
Once again the US administration is asserting its right to dictate what happens on the whole of the continent of Latin America.
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Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we see a new phase of that struggle emerge, writes BEN CHACKO
BEN CHACKO appreciates the largest Adelante! conference yet, and how much there was to learn about decolonisation and defiance across Latin America and beyond