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Recent Latin America
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Fitz: From the Murder of Berta Cáceres to Dam Disaster in Uttarakhand
Two stories about the consequences of the insatiable greed of capitalism for more energy
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Ebert: Chile’s 2021 forecast: clouds of unrest and a drizzle of hope
Presidential elections, a constitutional reform process and rising social tensions: 2021 is shaping up to be a critical year that will define Chile’s future
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Perry: If it were a narco lab, it would be working
Biden’s immigration policy includes spending $4 billion in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to address the problems that spur migration
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Iqbal: USA’s Game Plan in Venezuela: Strangulation through Sanctions
The method for US-styled liberation is peculiar. A country is in pain; increase the pain
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Venezuela Sends Oxygen and Doctors to Brazilian Amazon, Mexico Cedes Vaccines to Poor Countries, U.S. and Russia Refuse to Join COVAX
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Pearson: Absence of Abortion Rights is Depriving Latin America of Agency and the Right to Thrive
Maybe if we were able to have complete agency and autonomy over our individual and collective lives, our self esteems would be stronger, love would be less broken, and we’d all get better at making good decisions
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Jorden: Honduras: Caravan of the Damned
Over 500 people who lost everything in Hurricanes Eta and Iota set out from the San Pedro Sula bus station on Thursday, December 10, 2020
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Collyns: ‘The People Are Not Afraid Any More’: Young Peruvians Rise Up to Demand Change
After a tumultuous week, Peru’s burgeoning grassroots movement says it will not accept a return to business as usual
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Prashad: Why Imperialism Is Obsolete in Latin America
An interview with Jorge Arreaza, foreign minister of Venezuela
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Escobar: A judicial war in Latin America
Our America is alive, but it needs new leaderships and governments prone to the liberation of social forces, fearless of what may come, as well as more critical thinking, to achieve a definitive decolonization, based on the accumulated experience of local peoples and political cultures
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Weisbrot: What the OAS Did to Bolivia
Bolivia has descended into a nightmare of political repression and racist state violence since the democratically elected government of Evo Morales was overthrown by the military on November 10
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Benjamin: Biden Urged to Adopt a Good Neighbor Policy Toward Latin America
Progressive groups see the need to push a new administration to make a positive contribution to the well-being of people throughout the hemisphere
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& Jen Moore: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration
Across the Global South, and especially in Latin America, international mining companies have used a combination of disturbing tactics to forcibly open mining operations in places where communities have resisted them.
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Hatuey led the first guerrilla warfare against European invasion of the western hemisphere
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Wilkins: Teaching Torture: The Death and Legacy of Dan Mitrione
Although Dan Mitrione has been dead for half a century, his legacy lives on in the words and deeds of a new generation of US torturers
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Iqbal: Covid-19 and the Health Crisis in Latin America
Latin America has surpassed more than 5 million Covid-19 cases to overtake North America, with 4.8 million Covid-19 cases, as the region worst-hit by the Coronavirus pandemic
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Benjamin: Long Overdue For Latin America: A New “Good Neighbor Policy”
Universal threats, such as coronavirus and the climate crisis, have taught us the limits of borders and should act as incentives to construct a Good Neighbor Policy for the 21st century based on those principles of non-intervention and mutual respect
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Prashad: Each Heartbeat Must Be Our Song; the Redness of Blood, Our Banner
This level of public action is simply not available in the advanced capitalist countries, where mass organisations have been tethered and voluntary action has become professionalised in non-profit organisations
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Moore: Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers
Global South communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics — health, economic, violence, militarization, and corporate capture
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Paley: Feminists build power in Uruguay
Source: Toward Freedom 03 08 2020 / Montevideo, Uruguay: Poster...
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Danticat: U.S. Deports COVID-19-Positive Immigrants to Haiti & Guatemala
The United States continues to deport thousands during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean
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Smith: Covid-19 hits an economically weak and deeply unequal Latin America
Will Latin American economies returning to “normal” or build for a more equitable future after the pandemic?
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Collectives of Uruguay: Uruguay: May First Feminist Manifesto
The exit from this crisis must be feminist, migrant, plurinational, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, anti-prison, anti-capitalist, anti-extractivist and anti-fascist
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Prashad: Witnessing the Hell That a Migrant Can Face
At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen
Latin America Blogs
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Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
“A little child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6d “In truth...
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Originally signed five years ago, the US-Colombia “free-trade” agreement, or...
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Young: Latin American Opinion and US Policy
The Chilean polling firm Latinobarómetro has just released its annual...
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Young: Bolivia Dilemmas: Turmoil, Transformation, and Solidarity
Bolivia has erupted in conflict over the government’s controversial plans...
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: Economias Emergentes y Apreciación del Tipo de Cambio
ECONOMÍAS EMERGENTES Y APRECIACIÓN DEL TIPO DE CAMBIO. ENFOQUE...
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Black: Global Minga solidarity statements
These community statements are from locals who share their experiences,...
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Bohmer: Introduction for Noam Chomsky,November 1, 2010
Introducing Noam Chomsky by Peter Bohmer November 1, 2010 at ...
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Peterson: Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System
When a young Iranian woman was shot dead by the...
Video Latin America
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Da silva: Prison gave me a greater will to fight
Interview on the reality that Brazil is experiencing and the social protests that have occurred in several Latin American countries
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Chomsky: Building Sustainable Economies
Interview on the politics in Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela and across Latin America
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Boothroyd Rojas: Why has Venezuela’s Supreme Court Assumed Legislative Power?
Discussion on the Venezuelan TSJ’s move to assume the legislative power of the AN
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Greenwald: Goal of Rousseff Impeachment is to Boost Neoliberals & Protect Corruption
The real goal is to protect corruption
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de Sousa Santos: The Most Honest Politician in Latin America Will Be Removed By the Most Corrupt
Brazil's Supreme Court is able to intervene on procedural grounds in Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, not on the merits of the case
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de Sousa Santos: Brazilian Senate to Vote on President Rousseff’s Impeachment
A look at why Rousseff's impeachment is a highly political process and not a legal one and how this "legislative coup" can be compared to others in recent Latin American history
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Chomsky: The economic war on Latin America
Does the US foreign policy shift in relations toward Cuba indicate a change in regional goals, or does it signal new strategy to advance the same old objectives?
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Assange: The Untold Story of the Grounding of Evo Morales’ Plane During Edward Snowden Manhunt
Interview on why that plane was targeted
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Golinger: Why the CIA Won’t Give Up on Venezuela
Interview about the Western backed resistance groups in Venezuela and how there is a coup happening in real time
ZMag Latin America
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Hatuey led the first guerrilla warfare against European invasion of the western hemisphere
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Prashad: Witnessing the Hell That a Migrant Can Face
At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen
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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
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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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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
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Jorden: A New Caravan Heads North for the American Dream
They’re gathering in the early morning hours of Friday, October 12, 2018 outside the city. At least 100: nursing mothers and motherless teens, a man on crutches and another pushed by his brother in a wheelchair
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Simon: Trump’s Mexico High: Drugs, Migration, and NAFTA
Mexican society and its people needed no primer on democracy and advocacy. The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 was the first socialist-populist revolution of the western hemisphere and, arguably, of the world
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Wallerstein: Behind Brazil’s Crisis
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has been suspended from her office while she goes on trial by the Senate. If convicted, she would be removed from office, which is what is meant in Brazil by “impeachment.” Anyone, even Brazilians, who have been trying to follow the last several months of political maneuvering may be excused if they are somewhat confused by the many turns this process has taken
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Oikonomakis: Nicaragua and the Ghosts of Revolution
One could suggest that Nicaragua and its people are suffering more than anything else from a collective trauma
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Gedicks: Globalized Mining Resistance from El Salvador to Wisconsin
The environmental devastation from past and ongoing gold mining operations in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras has provoked a formidable Salvadoran social movement that has been educating and organizing communities for a total ban against metallic mining in El Salvador.
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Quandt: A Review of “Latin America’s Radical Left”
The radical left in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador enshrines participatory democracy in their constitutions; and it rejects the state-centered strategy of the old left. It also repudiates neo-liberalism
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Gedicks: Review of Dawn Paley’s Drug War Capitalism
Based on extensive travels, interviews, and research in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, Dawn Paley invites the reader to consider other factors and motivations for the war on drugs
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Campbell: Elbit: Exporting Oppression From Palestine to Latin America
Elbit Systems has made millions exporting surveillance and defense material worldwide
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Marshall: Assassins of Argentina
The role played by former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan in creating the conditions that led to the 2008 global financial meltdown is known to many. What is less known is that Greenspan is a former member of the Group of Thirty.
Latin America Links
ACIN
Agence Ha
AlterPresse
Aymara
Caribbean Media Network
CISPES
COHA
COHA
Colombia Journal
Colombia Support Network
Continental Alliance of Social Movements
Corpwatch
En Camino
Free Lori
Global Exchange
Haiti Action
Haiti Analysis
Haiti en Marche
Haiti Press Network
Haiti Progres
Indigenous Peoples
Indymedia Puerto Rico
Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaica Observer
Liwen (Mapuche)
Mapuche
Maquila Solidarity Network
MIR-Chile
Nativeweb
Polo Democratico
Stop CAFTA archive
The Colombia Project
The Haitian Times
The Panama Deception
Transnational institute
Tupac Amaru movement
Upside Down World
Via Campesina