Recent Latin America
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Nevins: Pursuing ‘A Radical Faith’
What can the assassination of Sister Maura during El Salvador’s civil war teach us about humanity for Central American refugees today?
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As I watch current events in Venezuela, I am haunted...
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Rodriguez: A “Green Tide” Engulfs the D.R.
Against a history of repression, corruption, and impunity, a growing social movement in the Dominican Republic demands change
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Johnston: U.S. Militarization of Latin America Deepening
With development assistance slashed, the face of U.S. diplomacy in the region will more often be wearing a uniform
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Contributors: Is the OAS Playing a Constructive Role on Venezuela?
A dialogue on Venezuela
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Weisbrot: Venezuela’s Withdrawal from the OAS Justified?
The Organization of American States is not a true multilateral body because the US largely controls it, often against the interests of individual member states
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Gynther: Trump & Obama in Central America
Trump’s policies against immigrants are an intensification of the Obama administration’s targeting of Central American refugees through raids
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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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This winter's El Niño Costero has ravaged both Peru and Ecuador. Why have the impacts in Peru been so much more destructive?
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Fuentes: Workers at world’s biggest copper mines strike
Workers have gone on indefinite strikes at Chile and Peru’s largest copper mines and ignited the potential for further struggles in the sector
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Phoenix: One year after Berta Cáceres’ murder, environmental activists in Honduras refuse to submit
In Honduras, indigenous peoples are in revolt. They are fighting for their rights to exist in a system that has no part for them to play beyond subservience
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Ellner: Venezuela’s National Dialogue: Disaggregating Key Issues
At first glance, intense political polarization in Venezuela appears to...
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While right-wing leaders fear Trump could pull the carpet out from under decades of free trade deals and military aid, the left fears a return to Cold War-style realpolitik
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Jorden: Obama keeps on deporting Central American teens. What will Trump do?
Though DHS and President Obama insisted that they were only targeting dangerous criminals for arrest and deportation, in reality the opposite seems to be true
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Prashad: Fidel Castro – The Voice of the Third World
Fidel Castro was the mirror of Africa, Asia and Latin America’s aspirations
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From Honduras to Argentina, from Brazil to Colombia, labor, indigenous and black social movements are embattled
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Friedman: #NiUnaMenos: Not One Woman Less, Not One More Death
Recent protests against femicide in Argentina reveal the deep roots and spreading branches of feminist activism in Latin America
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Weisbrot: The Most Dangerous Place in the World: US Pours in Money, as Blood Flows in Honduras
Honduras has become the most dangerous country in the world for environmental and human rights activists
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Aziza: Amid crackdowns on mass migration, Central Americans organize to curb violence
Without systemic, human rights-oriented solutions, it is likely that the cycle of trauma will continue
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Aldana: The Other (Invisible) Refugees
The situation that has driven Central American children to become refugees is not the product of unseen forces in faraway countries. It is the direct result of the past seventy years of U.S. foreign policy
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Song: Exposing the devil: US foreign policy towards Latin America
To properly understand the crises facing progressive parties in Latin America, we must distinguish between its own internal contradictions and those created and instigated by the United States
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Hedges: The Empire Strikes Back
Corporate leviathans and the imperialist agencies that work on their behalf are once again reshaping Latin America into havens for corporate exploitation
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Hedges: The Empire Strikes Back
Corporate leviathans and the imperialist agencies that work on their behalf are once again reshaping Latin America into havens for corporate exploitation
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Fuentes: Latin America’s left is in retreat, but it’s not finished yet
The left needs to develop serious and concrete alternatives to capitalism, both in terms of economic strategies and the kind of participatory democracy we want to see
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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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
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Golinger: The Media War on Venezuela
Venezuela has been in the eye of a constant media storm. That storm is intensifying as a new opposition coup plot was thwarted
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During the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende in Chile, US journalist Charles Hormon was captured, tortured, and killed. Imaginary Lines speaks with his widow, Joyce Hormon on her quest for justice
ZMag Latin America
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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.
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Skeen: Coca-Cola Sued for “Campaign of Violence”
On February 25, 2010, Josè Armando Palacios and Josè Alberto...
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Wilson: Resisting CAFTA and Metal Mining in El Salvador
On Friday, January 8, hundreds of people arrived in the...
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Vltchek: The Earth Shook as Right Wing Took Power
On February 27, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded,...
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Burbach: Movements Face Off with Ecuador’s President Correa
Beginning his fourth year as president of Ecuador, Rafael...
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The last Sunday in June began normally for Evangelica Argueta,...
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Conteris: From Coup-lite to Truth-lite: U.S. Policy in Honduras
In the "Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side...
