--- title: Americas url: 'https://www.contextura.world/americas' markdown: 'https://www.contextura.world/americas.md' date: '2026-10-16' --- # Americas [![](https://www.contextura.world/images/2/4/8/5/a/2485a38d9ff5d36ace902b48b4b3ba1f66b59af6-lula-and-maduro.jpeg)](https://www.contextura.world/americas/the-empire-that-wants-to-choose-its-neighbours-leaders-lula-maduro-and-americas-crisis-of-power) 26th Oct 2026 ### [The Empire That Wants to Choose Its Neighbours’ Leaders: Lula, Maduro and America’s Crisis of Power](https://www.contextura.world/americas/the-empire-that-wants-to-choose-its-neighbours-leaders-lula-maduro-and-americas-crisis-of-power) **When American political commentators openly suggest abducting foreign leaders because they dislike election results, the problem extends beyond one politician. It exposes an imperial mindset that treats the sovereignty of other nations as conditional on their willingness to obey Washington.** Brazil... [![](https://www.contextura.world/images/8/a/2/1/7/8a21735cc904ff0296ef52f8017fc34eba29de8d-donald-trump-republican.jpeg)](https://www.contextura.world/americas/trump-did-not-invent-republican-cruelty-he-made-it-harder-to-hide) 25th Oct 2026 ### [Trump Did Not Invent Republican Cruelty. He Made It Harder to Hide.](https://www.contextura.world/americas/trump-did-not-invent-republican-cruelty-he-made-it-harder-to-hide) **The claim that Donald Trump transformed an otherwise respectable Republican Party into something uniquely destructive is politically convenient but historically incomplete. The party's record of racial backlash, economic privilege, executive misconduct and indifference to vulnerable people long pred**... [![](https://www.contextura.world/images/6/c/9/9/5/6c995ed7eadec9753a304a8c85d5625bd5d61efd-hillary-obama-libya.png)](https://www.contextura.world/americas/are-american-presidents-above-the-law-obama-libya-and-the-politics-of-war-without-accountability) 24th Oct 2026 ### [Are American Presidents Above the Law? Obama, Libya and the Politics of War Without Accountability](https://www.contextura.world/americas/are-american-presidents-above-the-law-obama-libya-and-the-politics-of-war-without-accountability) **Barack Obama described the failure to plan for Libya's future as his greatest presidential mistake. But when a government helps destroy a country, can the catastrophe that follows really be separated from the decision to use force in the first place?** A recurring feature of American presidential hi... [![](https://www.contextura.world/images/a/e/1/a/5/ae1a53d3def7f4286f15fedcc2aced40a57cb38a-hugo-chavez.webp)](https://www.contextura.world/americas/from-the-devil-to-venezuela-is-being-reborn-the-extraordinary-reversal-of-chavism) 25th Sep 2026 ### [From “The Devil” to “Venezuela Is Being Reborn”: The Extraordinary Reversal of Chavism](https://www.contextura.world/americas/from-the-devil-to-venezuela-is-being-reborn-the-extraordinary-reversal-of-chavism) Twenty years ago, Hugo Chávez stood at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly and delivered one of the most memorable speeches in the institution's history. On September 20, 2006, the Venezuelan president pointed toward the podium where George W. Bush had spoken the previous day and decla... [![](https://www.contextura.world/images/6/f/8/9/f/6f89f9fbb41eca0f0507a6cf7337c1b841d59359-investigative-senate-interview.jpg)](https://www.contextura.world/americas/when-a-foreign-flag-becomes-a-political-flashpoint-in-washington) 24th Sep 2026 ### [When a Foreign Flag Becomes a Political Flashpoint in Washington](https://www.contextura.world/americas/when-a-foreign-flag-becomes-a-political-flashpoint-in-washington) On March 9, 2025, Senator Rick Scott posted a video promoting his Sunshine Protection Act, telling Americans that he heard from people who were tired of changing their clocks and wanted to "lock the clock." The policy itself is unremarkable political communication. What attracted attention was the s... [![](https://www.contextura.world/images/5/6/6/2/5/5662575d9eab67b8c7df559d444beef2e366c617-no-kings---trump-.png)](https://www.contextura.world/americas/trump-and-the-economy) 23rd Sep 2026 ### [Is America Losing Its Mind Under Trump? Sanctions, War Tricks, and the Global Economy on the Brink](https://www.contextura.world/americas/trump-and-the-economy) When Donald Trump speaks today, markets listen, governments react, and allies pause in confusion, yet what has become increasingly clear is that the pattern of decisions coming out of Washington no longer follows a coherent economic or strategic logic, but instead reflects a mix of impulsive politic... [![](https://www.contextura.world/images/3/3/5/a/7/335a7aeb5074f57e35ac933a69e0c8d6cdd38bd3-f2131d40-1ed5-4f25-bdce-16e53becd047-1.png)](https://www.contextura.world/americas/why-america-refuses-to-celebrate-workers-the-fear-of-may-day) 23rd Sep 2026 ### [Why America Refuses to Celebrate Workers: The Fear of May Day and What It Reveals About a System That Sees People as Tools](https://www.contextura.world/americas/why-america-refuses-to-celebrate-workers-the-fear-of-may-day) Every year on May 1, most of the world pauses, not for spectacle or empty symbolism, but to recognise the dignity of labour, the sacrifices of workers, and the long and often bloody struggle for basic rights that today are taken for granted in many places, yet in the United States and Canada, that s... --- ## Navigation - Previous: [Africa](https://www.contextura.world/africa.md) - Next: [Asia](https://www.contextura.world/asia.md) - Children: - [Why America Refuses to Celebrate Workers: The Fear of May Day and What It Reveals About a System That Sees People as Tools](https://www.contextura.world/americas/why-america-refuses-to-celebrate-workers-the-fear-of-may-day.md) - [Is America Losing Its Mind Under Trump? 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