Recent Latin America

• 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
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  Weisbrot: U.S. Strategy of Regime Change

  Interview on Trump’s threats to invade Venezuela
• Murphy: Immigration Enforcement Unbound, Part 2

  One mother’s recent deportation to her native Honduras reflects how the U.S. immigration regime not only separates families, but impels them to migrate to the United States in the first place
• Harbury: Refugee Blowback

  Today’s Refugee Crisis Is Blowback from U.S. Dirty Wars in Central America
• Vargas: Mexico Can be Counterweight to US Foreign Policy in Latin America

  AMLOs ambitious plans for the oil sector, together with Vasconcelos’ progressive international relations doctrine could shift the balance of power in the region and be a major foreign policy defeat for Trump
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  Weisbrot: Embarrassing Defeat for US

  At the OAS, 19 member states voted in favor, 4 against, and 11 abstained when the U.S. tried to have Venezuela sanctioned
• Kryt: Rumors of War With the U.S. Run Rampant in Venezuela

  The U.S. record fomenting coups and directly intervening in Latin America, which goes back to the middle of the 19th century
• Boesten: Ni Una Menos Stares Down Conservative Reaction

  As an unprecedented wave of feminist campaigns gains ground across Latin America, a dangerous backlash is afoot on various fronts
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  Weisbrot: US Interventions in Latin America Continue and Intensify

  Most US citizens don't realize it, but the US government has continued and even intensified its regime change agenda in Latin America and successfully helped reverse the so-called "pink tide"
• Jayadev: Patents Without Examination

  A Bad Solution For The 21st Century
• Unitario de Lucha: Final Declaration of the 2018 Peoples’ Summit

  Hundreds of popular organisations and social movements from across Latin America and the Caribbean met this past weekend in the Summit of the Peoples in Lima, Peru
• Jorden: Mexico in the Time of the Caravan

  In the case of the Via Crucis caravan, these people are claiming their right to move, to cross borders they did not make, to avoid violence, to seek a better life
• Da silva: Brazil: Former President Lula’s Historic Speech In Full

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivered a rousing speech to thousands of supporters shortly before he was transported to prison
• Abbott: Defending nature and health care in Honduras

  Indigenous communities carry on Berta Cacéres’ work
• McNelly: Striking for Pensions in the Age of Austerity

  As university faculty across the U.K. strike against a neoliberal assault on higher education, lessons from Latin American anti-austerity struggles resonate. This time, educators can win
• Da silva: It’s Clear Marielle Franco’s Assassination Was Premeditated

  Lula is a former union leader who served as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010
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  Foster: Inflicting Pain in Latin America

  Interview about the U.S. fight to maintain hegemony in Latin America, the rise of the right wing, and the danger of “regime change” in Venezuela