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Central America Commemorates International Workers Day Amid Attacks
Despite attacks and threats against unions, labor activists are demanding better wages and working conditions
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Honduras: The End of the Nightmare?
The election of the leftist Xiomara Castro as Honduras’s first female president means a significant rupture with the country’s recent right-wing – even fascist – past,
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Democratic Progress in Honduras, Setbacks in El Salvador
The last decade saw democratization in El Salvador and brutal repression in Honduras. Suddenly, those trends appear to have reversed
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Why Xiomara Castro’s win in Honduras could address the country’s endemic corruption and violence
"She’s inheriting a broken country, legal system and Supreme Court and is coming into an empty house that has been robbed.”
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Ending Latin America’s Sewage Decade
The victory of Xiomara Castro in Honduras is a sign that region is ready to exit its lost decade
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Massive Turnout in Favor of Leftists in Honduras Repudiates US-Backed Coup
Thousands of jubilant voters have been flooding the streets of cities across Honduras to celebrate the apparent electoral victory of leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro
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Costa Rica: Latin America’s climate champion
Costa Rica is a rare country whose efforts have been consistent with the Paris Agreement
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The Trial for Berta Caceres’s Murder Will Test Biden’s Central America Policy
The Biden administration says it wants to counter the corruption that’s driving displacement. Does that apply to U.S. allies in Honduras?
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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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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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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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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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Interview on the origins and consequences of the crisis
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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
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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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Who Made San Pedro Sula Murder Capital of the World?
Refugees flee this Honduran city, which has long been a vast, American-owned sweatshop
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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
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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
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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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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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How the Migrant Caravan Makes Neoliberal Dictatorship Visible
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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
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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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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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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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Coca-Cola Sued for “Campaign of Violence”
On February 25, 2010, Josè Armando Palacios and Josè Alberto...
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The last Sunday in June began normally for Evangelica Argueta,...
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Coup inciting revolution in Honduras?
President Manuel Zelaya, after over eighty days in exile, has...
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An Overview of the National Endowment for Democracy, pt. 2
This is the 2nd in a series looking at what...
Blogs
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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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Global Minga solidarity statements
These community statements are from locals who share their experiences,...
Books
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2009 April 9 by Mike Marqusee CONTENDING FOR THE...
