Recent Latin America

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  Prashad: What the Right Wing in Latin America Means by Democracy Is Violence

  This extreme violence undermines the possibility of democracy and allows the oligarchy to be re-elected in polling booths where the Left not dare enter
• Contributors: ‘Little Difference If You Die Here or There’

  Hundreds of Hondurans Set Out for US Border
• Zelaya: The Crisis in Honduras

  Interview on the origins and consequences of the crisis
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  de Sousa Santos: Evo Morales: An Indian out of place

  The dramatic events in Bolivia in recent months have followed an imperial script that Latin Americans are becoming more and more familiar with, and which consists in paving the way for the replacing of a democratic government deemed hostile to the interests of the United States
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  Carlsen: As Honduras Collapses, Its People are Forced to Flee

  What really motivates so many people to leave, when their chances of making it to relatives and new lives in the United States are so low? When the cost of the journey—in all senses—is so high?
• Power: El estado opresor es un macho violador // the oppressive state is a macho rapist

  For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities
• Hill: Throughout South America, Structural Violence Is Showing Up as Street Violence

  Ecuador was only the latest indicator of what’s possible when indigenous movements exercise their power. It also showed what’s at stake
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  Ellner: Absurd And Pathetic Campaign Against President Maduro

  Lima Group’s absurd boycott of Venezuela at Tthe Cop25 Climate Change Summit
• Zaitchik: Can Latin America Reject Oil, Ranching, and Mining?

  “In both Bolivia and Brazil, the forests are in flames.”
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  Street: Washington’s Consensus on Neofascist Coups in Latin America

  However much they war on the domestic political front, Washington’s Democrats and Republicans are on the same page when it comes to the imperial war on democracy and social justice in Latin America
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  Weisbrot: The OAS Has Deceived Public on Bolivian Election

  This military coup overthrew the government of President Evo Morales before his current term was finished — a term to which nobody disputes that he was democratically elected in 2014
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  Swain: Bolivia’s Coup Another Setback for Latin American Socialism

  “It just shows how in U.S. discourse, ‘democracy’ means putting a leader in place who serves U.S. interest, and ‘tyranny’ or ‘dictatorship’ means a leader — even if they’re democratically elected — who refuses to.”
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  Bond: What lessons from the Workers Party for fighting global neoliberalism?

  Lula’s release leaves capitalists annoyed and nervous
• Norton: Honduras is ruled by a US-backed drug cartel

  And the country’s opposition just united to oust it
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  Baroud: Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis

  The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-U.S. border cannot be understood separately from El Salvador’s painful past
• Burrowes: Our Vanishing World: Rainforests

  In essence, you have a choice: understand and act on the crucial importance of rainforests before we destroy their integrity and lose them completely. Or help to accelerate the human rush to extinction as a consequence of failing to do so
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  Escobar: South America, Again, Leads Fight Against Neoliberalism

  The presidential election in Argentina pitted the people against neoliberalism and the people won. What happens next will have a tremendous impact all over Latin America and serve as a blueprint for assorted Global South struggles
• Sosa González: Uruguay: We Don’t Need the Police

  Together, we want to live, to be free, without police. We stand against fear, we reject the proposal to militarize our desires and our collective capacity to look after each other
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  Prashad: Taking It Back

  it's impossible to anticipate the spur for rebellion
• Moore: North American Companies Pay Off Latin American Police to Harass Critics

  In countries like Peru, extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers — including me
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  Hynes: Trail of Tears: Refugees from Central America

  Throughout the 20th century, US corporations have staked out Central America for fruit and coffee growing, metal mining and logging, and water for beverage processing – all at the expense of indigenous land and environmental rights
• García Hernández: The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories

  In his new book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain captures why true border stories defy simplicity
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  Ellner: Excerpts from the Introduction by Steve Ellner of Latin America’s Pink Tide

  The pressing economic and political problems facing progressive Latin American governments and the resultant setbacks in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, and elsewhere over the recent past call for a critical analysis of the Pink Tide phenomenon
• Pagliccia: The political pendulum may be swinging left again in Latin America

  We remain optimistic that Argentina will choose to join progressive Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, and voters will signal the swinging of the political pendulum towards a more left-leaning popular government again in Latin America
• Sullivan: The Student Movement Standing up to the Honduran Regime

  It’s been ten years since a US-backed coup installed a repressive neoliberal regime in Honduras. Now, a student movement has emerged to challenge the government’s agenda of privatization and militarization