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
• 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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  Jorden: COVAX Agreement

  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
• Driver: The Main Form of Media Deception: Censorship-by-Omission

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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
• 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  Prashad: Why Imperialism Is Obsolete in Latin America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
• 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
• & 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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  Fitz: A Statue of Hatuey

  Hatuey led the first guerrilla warfare against European invasion of the western hemisphere
• 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
• Moore: Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers

  Global South communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics — health, economic, violence, militarization, and corporate capture
• Paley: Feminists build power in Uruguay

  Source: Toward Freedom 03 08 2020 / Montevideo, Uruguay: Poster...
• 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
• 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?
• 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