South America

Introduction

“On a plain high in the mountains of Haiti one day a week thousands of people still gather. This is the marketplace of my childhood...The sights and the smells and the noise and the colour overwhelm you. Everyone comes.

During the month of February, hundreds of thousands of Haitians took to the streets to demonstrate in response to the horrific economic crisis sweeping the Caribbean nation.

While the discontent of the Argentine people grows day by day, President Mauricio Macri flees to the United States.

In his victory speech, Bolsonaro tried to appear conciliatory, or at least more careful and “presidential” and not just a flamethrower whose only setting is full throttle.

Defending the sovereignty of Cuba and other states throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Diaz-Canal emphasised that the nations within the region had a right to adopt the political and economic system of their choice. 

For the Brazilian bourgeoisie, the economy is not in dispute in the elections: whoever wins will confront the problems of neoliberalism with more neoliberalism.

On 6 July 2018, Haiti exploded. By the tens of thousands, Haitians poured into the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse.

We are all living under a system so corrupt that to ask for a plate of rice and beans every day for every man, woman and child is to preach revolution – Jean Bertrand Aristide, Dignity, 1990.