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• Abbott: Expanding the Empire

  Trump Administration Deepens Militarization and Corporate Looting in Central America
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  Nevins: Pursuing ‘A Radical Faith’

  What can the assassination of Sister Maura during El Salvador’s civil war teach us about humanity for Central American refugees today?
• Gynther: Trump & Obama in Central America

  Trump’s policies against immigrants are an intensification of the Obama administration’s targeting of Central American refugees through raids
• Phoenix: One year after Berta Cáceres’ murder, environmental activists in Honduras refuse to submit

  In Honduras, indigenous peoples are in revolt. They are fighting for their rights to exist in a system that has no part for them to play beyond subservience
• Jorden: Obama keeps on deporting Central American teens. What will Trump do?

  Though DHS and President Obama insisted that they were only targeting dangerous criminals for arrest and deportation, in reality the opposite seems to be true
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  Weisbrot: The Most Dangerous Place in the World: US Pours in Money, as Blood Flows in Honduras

  Honduras has become the most dangerous country in the world for environmental and human rights activists
• Aziza: Amid crackdowns on mass migration, Central Americans organize to curb violence

  Without systemic, human rights-oriented solutions, it is likely that the cycle of trauma will continue
• Aldana: The Other (Invisible) Refugees

  The situation that has driven Central American children to become refugees is not the product of unseen forces in faraway countries. It is the direct result of the past seventy years of U.S. foreign policy
• Weiss: Central American Refugees Struggle for Protection in Southern Mexico

  The misguided, insufficient responses by both the U.S. and Mexican governments constitute human rights abuses
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  Fernandez: Honduras and Israel: A New Special Relationship

  Just as it serviced murderous regimes in Central America in the 1980s, Israel will now be exporting forms of repression to Honduras' abusive government
• Abbott: Honduran Indigenous Activist Wins Human Rights Award for Struggle Against Corporate Destruction of Land

  In 2015, Romero and her community were able to successfully stop the construction of the hydroelectric dam
• Gutiérrez D.: Insurgency, conflict and communalism in Colombia

  For decades, the FARC has led the revolutionary struggle in Colombia, but now farmers are taking over control by means of communal assemblies.
• Dolack: There’s no place for clean water under ‘free trade’

  That last ruling provides the essence of “free trade” agreements — the accumulation of corporate power to override all democratic controls over health, safety, environmental or labor safeguards
• Walters: Ortega’s Betrayal

  Today’s Sandinista leaders are a far cry from the revolutionaries that once inspired the international left
• Silva: Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua

  Nicaragua has lost 60 percent of its surface water sources and up to 50 percent of its underground sources, which either dried up or have been polluted
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  Cohn: Hillary Clinton’s Link to a Nasty Piece of Work in Honduras

  Although the U.S. government eventually cut nonhumanitarian aid to Honduras, the State Department under Clinton took pains to clarify that this was not an admission that a military coup had occurred.
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  Bell: ¡Berta Lives! The Life and Legacy of Berta Cáceres

  May all women and men commit themselves to realizing the vision of transformation, dignity, and justice for which Berta lived, and for which she died
• Jones: Walking a Migrant Trail

  How can Christians – or people of any faith, or no faith, for that matter – reconcile themselves to the militarization and victimization taking place in our borderlands, in our names?
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  Podur: ‘Paz Colombia’: the Latest US Attempt to Control Colombia?

  ​The U.S. has announced funding for a new Plan Colombia as the country moves towards a resolution to its civil war. What is its real purpose?
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  Oikonomakis: Nicaragua and the ghosts of revolution

  Over two decades after a devastating civil war, the people of Nicaragua are still plagued by the haunting memories of what could have been