Recent Latin America

• 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?
• Dispatch: “When we say Hands off Venezuela’, we are saying Viva Socialism”

  Around 450 delegates from 85 countries congregated in Caracas, to participate in a gathering of solidarity with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution
• Bonner: What Did Elliott Abrams Have to Do With the El Mozote Massacre?

  In a testy exchange with Elliott Abrams, Representative Ilhan Omar resurrected the memory of El Salvador’s El Mozote massacre, one of the worst mass killings in modern Latin American history
• Lovato: Abrams Bringing Violence of 1980s Latin America Policy to Venezuela

  Interview on the violent history of Elliott Abrams and the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela
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  Greenwald: Amazon Builds Global Surveillance State

  Interview on a variety of topics
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  Emersberger: Democracy in the Americas

  The U.S. Pot and the Venezuelan Kettle
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  Carlsen: Regime Change Enthusiasts

  Amid crises in Venezuela, migration, and the climate, the Western Hemisphere’s chief regional organization the OAS, has been hobbled by pro-Trump leadership
• Jordan: Is foreign military intervention in Venezuela imminent?

  The frustrations of the Bolivarian movement’s enemies are palpable. Does this mean intervention is imminent? And what would such an intervention look like?
• 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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  Zibechi: The State of Social Movements in Latin America

  Interview on the impacts of the progressive governments in South America, the rise of the far right, the politics of extractivism in oil, gas, and mining industries, and how women and youth represent the hope of building a new world
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  Grandin: U.S. Policies Punished Central Americans

  Interview on U.S. policy in Central America
• Araya: Fossil-Free Costa Rica

  How One Country Is Pursuing Decarbonization Despite Global Inaction
• Betto: Latin American Leftists Must Think Why Poorest Support Is Lower

  Interview on the “self-criticism” that the Workers’ Party (PT) has to do to reconstruct itself in this context and how the influence of the evangelical churches impacts on politics
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  Baroud: The Conspiracy against Refugees

  Watching the ongoing debate between US liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding crisis in Central America
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  Prashad: IMF is Back in Business in Latin America

  Just as Neoliberal as Always
• Jorden: Between a wall and a hard place

  What now for Hondurans in Tijuana?
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  Gordon: Branding migrants ‘human shields’ has a deadly motive

  As the migrant caravan works its way north, and is further demonized for doing so, the world should reflect on this and how one of the pillars of international law – the category of civilian – is being eroded
• Nahem: Cornered: Trump Gets Thumped on Cuba at the UN

  The 2018 UN vote against the US blockade strengthens Cuba’s position in this volatile and explosive period in world and Western Hemispheric politics, and in the international class and national liberation struggles, that are now unfolding
• Orphan: The Power That Must be Resisted

  Resistance must be radical and it must be global because, given the circumstances and our collective predicament, only a radical paradigm shift offers a chance of creating a different world than the dystopic one we are seeing unfold before us