Central America Watch
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Latest CA
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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Abbott: Defending nature and health care in Honduras
Indigenous communities carry on Berta Cacéres’ work
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Sylvester: Defending Hope in Honduras
Instead of being silenced by fear, many chanted the demand to end the repressive government of Hernández
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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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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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Skeen: Coca-Cola Sued for “Campaign of Violence”
On February 25, 2010, Josè Armando Palacios and Josè Alberto...
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Jarrin-thomas: El Salvador Conquers Fear, Elects Leftist President
FMLN supporters in San Salvador’s Masferrer Plaza on March 15—photo...
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Herman: All The News Fit To Print (Part I)
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three...
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Herman: All The News Fit To Print, Part II
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three...
CA Video
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Estrada: Coup inciting revolution in Honduras?
President Manuel Zelaya, after over eighty days in exile, has...
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Jones: An Overview of the National Endowment for Democracy, pt. 2
This is the 2nd in a series looking at what...
CA 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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Black: Global Minga solidarity statements
These community statements are from locals who share their experiences,...
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Peterson: Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System
When a young Iranian woman was shot dead by the...
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Smith: CIDESI Forum “The problems of Chiapas”
Agua Azul where the communities are under attack for...
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