Recent Latin America

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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
• Moore: Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats

  This month a peaceful resistance movement marks eight years of struggle against a gold mining project that threatens scarce water supplies.
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  Flores: Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise You

  Venezuelans waiting to go home understand that their chances of surviving the coronavirus – both physically and economically – are much better in a country that values health over profits
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  Prashad: IMF Refuses Aid to Venezuela in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis

  The IMF denial of the $5 billion request from Venezuela follows Pence’s sentiment. It is a violation of the spirit of international cooperation that is at the heart of the UN Charter
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  Norton: Brazil begs for Cuban doctors – after expelling them

  Brazil’s far-right government requested the return of thousands of Cuban doctors to help fight the coronavirus. Months ago, President Jair Bolsonaro smeared the doctors as “terrorists” and expelled them
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  Carlsen: How the OAS Revived the Cold War in the Americas

  An in-depth analysis of the actions of the Organization of American States reveals a disturbing political bias, a willingness to manipulate events and data for political purposes, and a pattern of double standards under the leadership of Secretary General Luis Almagro
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  Mestrum: Reinventing the World Social Forum: how powerful an idea can be

  Ideas that were discussed concerned the initiative to make a network of sanctuary cities, to develop a world movement against fascism and to emphasize the need for convergence between the movements
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  Carlsen: The Organization of American States Is Eroding Faith in Democracy

  Under its pro-Trump secretary general, a politicized OAS has botched electoral missions across the hemisphere — and even precipitated a coup
• Abbott: A Dispatch From the Caravan

  The massive open migration from Central America highlights the growing sense of desperation in the region
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  Carlsen: The Power of the Mothers

  The most important form of empowerment for these mothers is to develop the power to search for and find their children
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  Prashad: What the Right Wing in Latin America Means by Democracy Is Violence

  This extreme violence undermines the possibility of democracy and allows the oligarchy to be re-elected in polling booths where the Left not dare enter
• Contributors: ‘Little Difference If You Die Here or There’

  Hundreds of Hondurans Set Out for US Border
• Zelaya: The Crisis in Honduras

  Interview on the origins and consequences of the crisis
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  de Sousa Santos: Evo Morales: An Indian out of place

  The dramatic events in Bolivia in recent months have followed an imperial script that Latin Americans are becoming more and more familiar with, and which consists in paving the way for the replacing of a democratic government deemed hostile to the interests of the United States
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  Carlsen: As Honduras Collapses, Its People are Forced to Flee

  What really motivates so many people to leave, when their chances of making it to relatives and new lives in the United States are so low? When the cost of the journey—in all senses—is so high?
• Power: El estado opresor es un macho violador // the oppressive state is a macho rapist

  For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities
• Hill: Throughout South America, Structural Violence Is Showing Up as Street Violence

  Ecuador was only the latest indicator of what’s possible when indigenous movements exercise their power. It also showed what’s at stake
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  Ellner: Absurd And Pathetic Campaign Against President Maduro

  Lima Group’s absurd boycott of Venezuela at Tthe Cop25 Climate Change Summit
• Zaitchik: Can Latin America Reject Oil, Ranching, and Mining?

  “In both Bolivia and Brazil, the forests are in flames.”
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  Street: Washington’s Consensus on Neofascist Coups in Latin America

  However much they war on the domestic political front, Washington’s Democrats and Republicans are on the same page when it comes to the imperial war on democracy and social justice in Latin America
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  Weisbrot: The OAS Has Deceived Public on Bolivian Election

  This military coup overthrew the government of President Evo Morales before his current term was finished — a term to which nobody disputes that he was democratically elected in 2014
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  Swain: Bolivia’s Coup Another Setback for Latin American Socialism

  “It just shows how in U.S. discourse, ‘democracy’ means putting a leader in place who serves U.S. interest, and ‘tyranny’ or ‘dictatorship’ means a leader — even if they’re democratically elected — who refuses to.”
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  Bond: What lessons from the Workers Party for fighting global neoliberalism?

  Lula’s release leaves capitalists annoyed and nervous
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  Norton: Honduras is ruled by a US-backed drug cartel

  And the country’s opposition just united to oust it
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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