Recent Latin America

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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
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  Gordon: What Happens in El Norte

  Doesn’t Stay in El Norte
• Foster: Caravan: Workers Who Want to Work

  In the tradition of the Underground Railroad, anti-racist solidarity is propelling many to take action to free the refugees
• Lappé: How We Help Drive Immigration North

  Where are the calls to stop the massive illegal transfer of U.S. weapons fueling the very violence that drives innocent people to leave their homes?
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  Hynes: We Are Here Because You Were There

  Refugees at the US-Mexican Border
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  Baroud: Who Killed Oscar and Valeria

  The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
• Shaiken: Trump’s NAFTA Replacement

  We need a new trade agreement but one that will protect U.S. workers and families
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  Bacon: Who Made San Pedro Sula Murder Capital of the World?

  Refugees flee this Honduran city, which has long been a vast, American-owned sweatshop
• Pigliucci: The Forgotten Migrants of Central America

  The disappearance of farmlands and unreliability of crops due to climate change have led families to experience increased food and economic insecurity—that have forced some of them to migrate
• Rodríguez Pineda: The Roots of the National Strike in Honduras

  As Honduran teachers and doctors resist the neoliberal restructuring of health and education services, educator and organizer Bayron Rodríguez Pineda explains the roots of the mobilizations and the growing people power in the streets
• Doyle: Guatemala’s Historical Archive of the National Police

  “Somehow in this part of the world, we’ve come to this point of turning our backs on human rights justice and the rule of law in ways that are terribly troubling”
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  Weisbrot: Tariffs Are a Bad Response to an Imaginary Border Crisis

  The migrants that do arrive in the U.S. are fleeing situations exacerbated by decades of bad American foreign policy. Tariffs on Mexico would continue that pattern
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  Cohn: Trump’s “Troika of Tyranny” Meddles in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua

  Under the guise of protecting human rights, the Trump administration...
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  Ellner: Venezuela and the setbacks of the Latin American Left

  What does it all mean?
• Coles: The Battle for Latin America

  How the U.S. Helped Destroy the “Pink Tide”
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  Prashad: To Ola Bini

  A Political Prisoner Caught Up in the Assange Debacle
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  Ellner: Venezuela and the setbacks of the Latin American Left

  What does it all mean?
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  de Sousa Santos: The Age of Pardon or the Age of Aggression?

  Throughout the 20th century there were frequent apologies and claims for reparations for the atrocities committed in the context of the relations between peoples and countries
• Grinnell: 100 Years After Women’s Suffrage in Latin America

  How Latin American suffrage in the early 20th century shaped transnational feminist activism today
• Frey: Why the Real Migration Crisis Is in Central America

  President Trump has announced the United States will cut off funding to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
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  Cole: Costa Rica’s ambitious Decarbonization Program

  A Model for the US Green New Deal?