Recent Latin America

• Araya: Fossil-Free Costa Rica

  How One Country Is Pursuing Decarbonization Despite Global Inaction
• Betto: Latin American Leftists Must Think Why Poorest Support Is Lower

  Interview on the “self-criticism” that the Workers’ Party (PT) has to do to reconstruct itself in this context and how the influence of the evangelical churches impacts on politics
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  Baroud: The Conspiracy against Refugees

  Watching the ongoing debate between US liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding crisis in Central America
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  Prashad: IMF is Back in Business in Latin America

  Just as Neoliberal as Always
• Jorden: Between a wall and a hard place

  What now for Hondurans in Tijuana?
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  Gordon: Branding migrants ‘human shields’ has a deadly motive

  As the migrant caravan works its way north, and is further demonized for doing so, the world should reflect on this and how one of the pillars of international law – the category of civilian – is being eroded
• Nahem: Cornered: Trump Gets Thumped on Cuba at the UN

  The 2018 UN vote against the US blockade strengthens Cuba’s position in this volatile and explosive period in world and Western Hemispheric politics, and in the international class and national liberation struggles, that are now unfolding
• Orphan: The Power That Must be Resisted

  Resistance must be radical and it must be global because, given the circumstances and our collective predicament, only a radical paradigm shift offers a chance of creating a different world than the dystopic one we are seeing unfold before us
• Petersen-Smith: How To Welcome Migrants and Refugees With Open Arms

  In 2015, ordinary Europeans welcomed refugees with open arms. Will we do the same with the caravan from Central America?
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  Chomsky: Caravan Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created by the U.S.

  Interview about the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and other recent white supremacist and right-wing attacks
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  Cole: Trump Paradox

  He promotes CO2 even as Climate Emergency impels Emigration from Guatemala
• Geglia: Life Laid Bare in Honduras

  How the Migrant Caravan Makes Neoliberal Dictatorship Visible
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  Fernandez: The inconvenient truth about the migrant caravan

  The migrant caravan Trump is so obsessed about is a direct result of US foreign policy
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  Dobson: Venezuelan Opposition Celebrates Bolsonaro, Calls for Intervention

  The result sparked deep concern among Chavista sectors fearing a possible military escalation from the ex-military man, whom they describe as a “neo-fascist.”
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  Telesur English: AMLO Speaks Up For Rights of Honduran Migrants Caravan

  "If there is economic growth in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, in Chiapas, in Tabasco, in Oaxaca, there will be no migration phenomenon"
• Weiss: A Humanitarian Exodus

  The 7,000-person strong caravan from Central America has made international headlines and been targeted by the Trump administration. But the roots of the refugee crisis that led to the caravan go much deeper
• García: Caravan of 3,000 Central American Migrants Crosses Into Mexico

  Thousands of Central American migrants have defied Donald Trump and streamed over the international bridge from Guatemala into Mexico, where some clashed with riot police in an attempt to continue their journey north
• Jorden: A New Caravan Heads North for the American Dream

  It remains to be seen if Mexico will allow this new caravan to pass safely through their country as they did in April. It also remains to be seen what the United States will do their children when they get there
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  Carlsen: Central American Women Beating Extractive Industries

  The battle to stop the spread of extractive industries pits indigenous and peasant communities against powerful business interests, backed up by politicians who encourage the foreign investments that convert millennial ways of life into cash—for them
• Villanueva: Kurdish Revolutionary Seed Spreads in Latin America

  From Rojava to the Mapuche Struggle
• Frayssinet: The Fight for Abortion Spreads in Latin America

  The Argentine Senate’s rejection of a bill to legalise abortion did not stop a Latin American movement, which is on the streets and is expanding in an increasingly coordinated manner among women’s organisations
• Becerril: How Gold Mining Companies Stifle Opposition in Peru

  Multinational mining corporations in northern Peru have devised a number of strategies for suppressing environmental activism and protest, from strategic investment to media relations to outright intimidation and repression
• Kyle: Militarization Redux

  Across the region, Latin America’s militaries are regaining power through the court system
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  Weisbrot: A Note about “Our Backyard”

  Advice that Thomas Shannon Might Give to Mike Pompeo
• Hallett: Compounding the Crisis

  Understanding legal violence against Central American families