Latest CA

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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
• Zelaya: The Crisis in Honduras

  Interview on the origins and consequences of the crisis
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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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  Hynes: Trail of Tears: Refugees from Central America

  Throughout the 20th century, US corporations have staked out Central America for fruit and coffee growing, metal mining and logging, and water for beverage processing – all at the expense of indigenous land and environmental rights
• Sullivan: The Student Movement Standing up to the Honduran Regime

  It’s been ten years since a US-backed coup installed a repressive neoliberal regime in Honduras. Now, a student movement has emerged to challenge the government’s agenda of privatization and militarization
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  Bacon: Who Made San Pedro Sula Murder Capital of the World?

  Refugees flee this Honduran city, which has long been a vast, American-owned sweatshop
• Pigliucci: The Forgotten Migrants of Central America

  The disappearance of farmlands and unreliability of crops due to climate change have led families to experience increased food and economic insecurity—that have forced some of them to migrate
• Rodríguez Pineda: The Roots of the National Strike in Honduras

  As Honduran teachers and doctors resist the neoliberal restructuring of health and education services, educator and organizer Bayron Rodríguez Pineda explains the roots of the mobilizations and the growing people power in the streets
• 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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  Grandin: U.S. Policies Punished Central Americans

  Interview on U.S. policy in Central America
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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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  Jorden: Between a wall and a hard place

  What now for Hondurans in Tijuana?
• Geglia: Life Laid Bare in Honduras

  How the Migrant Caravan Makes Neoliberal Dictatorship Visible
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  Carlsen: Central American Women Beating Extractive Industries

  The battle to stop the spread of extractive industries pits indigenous and peasant communities against powerful business interests, backed up by politicians who encourage the foreign investments that convert millennial ways of life into cash—for them
• Hallett: Compounding the Crisis

  Understanding legal violence against Central American families
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  Jorden: Mexico in the Time of the Caravan

  In the case of the Via Crucis caravan, these people are claiming their right to move, to cross borders they did not make, to avoid violence, to seek a better life
• Abbott: Defending nature and health care in Honduras

  Indigenous communities carry on Berta Cacéres’ work
• Sylvester: Defending Hope in Honduras

  Instead of being silenced by fear, many chanted the demand to end the repressive government of Hernández
• Jones: Accompanying Honduras

  As the bus was taking our accompaniment delegation to Honduras...
• Gies: Legalizing Political Corruption

  Hernández has kept a stranglehold on power through electoral fraud and military might, consolidating what they slam as a “narco-dictatorship” that pads its own pockets while condemning the majority to misery