Latin America and the Caribbean

• BRAZIL - Dilma, a woman of deep convictions

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  16 September, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  The photograph of a young Brazilian guerrilla, almost a child, before a military court that tortured and imprisoned her for three years, went around the world the day Dilma Vana da Silva Rousseff became the first woman president of Brazil.
  That image of a brave teenager, of deep and sincere look, sitting on the bench of the accused for defending the sovereignty of his people and fighting against a dictatorship, which precisely came into being also by a coup in 1964, went beyond the (...)

• COLOMBIA - It is not Venezuela, it’s Colombia

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  8 September, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  Latin America, with its multitudinous faces and multiple ethnicities, is black, has the strength and resilience of African descent. An ancient root that we continue to deny as part of our cultural identity. As Afro-descendants in Latin America we remain invisible even more than indigenous peoples. In the beauty of the Patria Grande, in the jungles of Darién and the basins of the Atrato and San Juan rivers in the Colombian Pacific, is located the department of Chocó; inhabited by ethnic (...)

• VENEZUELA - The fallacy of famine

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  11 August, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  I wonder what is happening with the common sense of the people, with the natural intelligence and the ability to reason. We’re letting ourselves to be influenced by what the world big media corporations are imposing upon us. Where is our power of resistance, of questioning and the right to doubt? Is it perhaps that we have allowed ourselves to be robed even of our instinct?
  Who on earth would think that there may be famine in Venezuela because of the current government; when the (...)

• What awaits Colombia, a firm and lasting peace?

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  25 July, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  As a Guatemalan who experienced the signing of the Firm and Lasting Peace in my country, and have seen for the past 19 years the decline of the Peace Accords, I wonder: Will it be different in Colombia? Will those responsible be genuinely committed to the peace process?
  Because in any socio-political and socio-cultural context peace is an integral part: What those involved in this new process of reconciliation are offering? Who are those who are really committed to this new dawn? What role (...)

• S.O.S, It’s not Venezuela, it’s Mexico

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  4 July, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  Mexico is being kidnapped, tortured, massacred, and disappeared by none other than the government of Peña Nieto. The urgent question we ask ourselves is, what are Almagro and the OAS waiting to apply the Democratic Charter to Peña Nieto? Is it not the government violating the human rights of Mexican citizens? Doesn’t the government incite and exerts the violence through its armed wing? Isn’t the Peña Nieto government kidnapping, torturing and massacring citizens? Is it not pillaging the (...)

• Venezuela and the power of international capital

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  7 June, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  At the IV Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Rafael Correa was clear when he proposed to replace the Organization of American States (OAS) by the CELAC. It was a very appropriate proposal. Remember that the CELAC is an organization that was created in 2011 at the initiative of Hugo Chavez, who suggested replacing the OAS by an entity with the same members but without the United States. The reasons are obvious: Latin America is not the backyard of the (...)

• LATIN AMERICA - Cristina, my love

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  1 June, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  I’m not a feminist, neither red, nor leftist, nor revolutionary. I know very well where I do belong: I am a pariah and Cristina is my love. As well as Mercedes Sosa, Dilma, Evita and Violetona Parra. And as a writer to shout this love to the world, has earned me the reprobation of more than a few. I have been accused more than once of being mercenary, living in the United States with money sent to me by Cristina and Dilma to write about them. So help me God! These women don’t even know (...)

• BRAZIL - Dilma, unbreakable

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  19 May, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  We should have killed her; her tortures will have repeated hundreds of times to themselves when they saw her becoming Brazil’s first woman president. Or had wanted also that cancer disappeared her, like Evita (temporarily, because it is immortal), from the political scene. Dilma marked a watershed moment in Brazil and Latin America. A woman president overcoming patriarchy. And gender inequality. A woman who from the government has created gender inclusion policies. Social policies that have (...)

• GUATEMALA - Forced exodus

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  19 May, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  Why girls, adolescents and women migrate? What is the reason for leaving the country and embarking on the misadventure of an illegal crossing with de certainty that they will be transgressed, and if they make it they will be able to survive and try to deal with the post-border hell; that if they reach their destination, otherwise they will become one more of the statistics of the disappeared and dead while in the migratory journey in no man’s land. Without any authority searching for them (...)

• Latin America, coups and resistance

  Ilka Oliva Corado

  25 April, posted by Ilka Oliva Corado

  Today dictatorships have ceased to be bloody, the US and the Latin American oligarchy have changed their strategy. Imposition is corporate made. A new kind of dirty war and Plan Condor which execute soft coups with its central axis: through manipulation by the media, and with this, numbing the minds of the masses (Latin American middle class) which due to their indifference are easy to use. Unaware they vote for structures which according to them (classist and racist) would only affect the (...)

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