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Brazil as a Key Player

by Raúl Zibechi

Montevideo (Uruguay) | 6 March 2010

A newly established industrial superpower, owner of the seventh largest oil reserves of the world and the world’s largest area of natural biodiversity in the Amazon, Brazil is also poised to emerge as a new military power. Unquestionably, Brazil is now a big league player. In the decade in (...)

by Raúl Zibechi

Montevideo (Uruguay) | 12 April 2006

Roadblocks on the international bridges connecting Argentina and Uruguay, carried out by the Argentine environmental movement to protest the construction of two large cellulose factories, demonstrates the social limitations of the neoliberal model and is jeopardizing the regional alliance (...)

Yvonne Trías: “In Uruguay, my newspaper was accused of anti-Semitism for having criticized Israel’s policy”

Brussels (Belgium) | 24 November 2005

During the Axis for Peace International Conference , the director of the Uruguayan weekly Brecha, Yvonne Trías, expressed her indignation for anti-Semitism accusations against intellectuals who oppose Israel’s policy towards the Palestinian.“They added my name on a black list of people (...)

Meeting of anti-establishment world leaders

Axis for Peace: The founding of an international movement against world domination

24 November 2005

Leaders who oppose world domination by the Coalition met in Brussels on November 17 – 18, 2005. They were invited by Voltaire Network to attend the first Axis for Peace International Conference. Political leaders, diplomats, military officers and opinion makers spoke out based on their own (...)

South America: Integration at the crossroads

by Raúl Zibechi

Caracas (Venezuela) | 17 October 2005

The recent summit of heads of state for the South American Community of Nations (CSN) left exposed not only the difficulties of coming to terms for regional integration based on the models of MERCOSUR and CAN (the Andean Community of Nations), but also the capacity for initiative of the (...)

Common Market of the South and integration, an endless obstacle race

by Raúl Zibechi

Caracas (Venezuela) | 6 August 2004

Thirteen years after its creation, the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) is expanding quickly, but it has not managed to solve problems that are product of deep differences among its members, that not only persist but also -as could be seen in the recent XXVI Summit of Heads of State - (...)