Recent Latin America
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Koenig: Peru at the Brink of Civil War?
The Uprising of the Dispossessed
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Popuchet: Pedro Castillo’s Humble Roots Inspire Perú’s Masses
Could Upend U.S.-Perú Relations
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Llerena: The coup that is taking place in Peru
While by all accounts, Pedro Castillo won the second round presidential elections, his adversary has refused to concede
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Villeda: The Root Cause of Central American Migration Is US Imperialism
It would be nice if the US government acknowledged that its imperialist meddling in Central America drove millions to flee to the United States
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Barzola: Castillo elected president of Peru
Socialist teacher defeats daughter of fascist dictator
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Moya: Socialist Teacher Takes Lead in Peruvian Election
Nation Reels from Pandemic & Political Crisis
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Benjamin: Rural Teacher Pedro Castillo Poised to Write a New Chapter in Peru’s History
Castillo, the son of illiterate peasants, overcame vicious media attacks and is on the verge of defeating Keiko Fujimori, the scion of a Peruvian political dynasty
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Zibechi: State, power and society in Latin America
From state violence and neoliberal extractivism to Colombia’s general strike and Zapatismo
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Vine: 175 Years of Border Invasions
The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration
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Bustos: Climate Change Is a Driving Force in Central American Migration
We look at the link between migration and the climate emergency, which studies have estimated could displace over 200 million people by 2050
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Prashad: A Bit of Hope That Doesn’t Come from Miami
Defeat is not in their vocabulary. Their agenda is hopeful, unlike the bilious agenda that comes from the US government and the Miami-based Cuban oligarchy
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For many in Central America, the only way out of this violence and extreme poverty is asylum in the United States. For the new generation that remains, the struggle that started over four decades ago continues
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Emanuele: Peru: Left vs. Far-Right – Dramatic Choice in Presidential Election
Pedro Castillo, a leftist, unexpectedly won first place in Peru’s first-round presidential election last Sunday
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Fryklund: The U.S. War on Drugs is Driving the Displacement Crisis
Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America
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Chomsky: Will Biden’s Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)?
The New Border Politics of the Biden Era Are Actually Ancient History
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Arteaga Cruz: The Pink Tide Drowns Women And Indigenous People
Latin American populisms definitely don't get along with feminism. Women's agendas make them extremely uncomfortable
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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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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
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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
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.
