“Perpetuating the myth that Cuba is a threat to the American people—while minimizing the threat posed by far-right extremists at home—is an embarrassment to our country on the world stage.” On January 11, in his ...
An interview with Jorge Arreaza, foreign minister of Venezuela. In September 2018, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro visited China, where he met with China’s President Xi Jinping and signed a series of important agreements on trade ...
In mid-January 2020, 800 people gathered at Mexico’s Ministry of Economy to celebrate “China Day” with a seminar on Chinese-Mexican relations. Mexico’s Minister of Economy Graciela Márquez Colín, who has a PhD in economic history from Harvard ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) The New York Times published an astonishingly horrible article the other day titled “Latin America Is Facing a ‘Decline of Democracy’ Under the Pandemic” accusing governments like Venezuela and Nicaragua of exploiting Covid-19 to ...
The left and right-wing struggle in Bolivia to hold onto power after the forced resignation of Bolivia’s longtime socialist leader Evo Morales reflects the growing divide across Latin America. The recent forced resignation of Bolivian ...
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to resign after a Bolivian coup that has shaken the country and resulted in violent and deadly protests. Bolivia is currently wading through what exiled former Bolivian President ...
To avoid another embarrassing defeat like Vietnam, the United States evolved its warfare strategy to include the battle for hearts and minds. On April 30, 1975, the United States learned an important lesson. The capture ...
“So this is all a fallacy. This war on drugs, war against drug-trafficking, war against terrorism is a lie. Which terrorists are they even referring to?” (By Zoe PC, Peoples Dispatch) Honduran president Juan Orlando ...
Organizations across the country have condemned the government of president Iván Duque for not providing security to social leaders. (By Tanya Wadhwa, Peoples Dispatch) Two weeks ago, four social leaders were assassinated in Colombia, taking ...
“Donald Trump is most responsible for the cyber attack on the Venezuelan electricity system.” As Venezuela struggles through the sixth day of a blackout that has affected as much as 70 percent of the country, ...
A newly approved Cuban constitution substantially expands social, political and economic rights in Cuba. (By María Isabel Alfonso, The Conversation) Cuba has rejected a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in its new and revised constitution, a move ...
Regional diplomacy is much slower than foreign intervention. But it avoids further bloodshed and reduces the role of anti-Americanism in Venezuela’s crisis. (By Joseph J. Gonzalez, Appalachian State University, The Conversation) Violence erupted at the Venezuela-Colombia ...
Around 450 delegates from 85 countries congregated in Caracas, to participate in a gathering of solidarity with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution. People from across the world have come to Caracas to join together as ...
Why is the West sending humanitarian aid while simultaneously blocking Venezuela from accessing its own money? (Resumen Latinoamericano)The first trucks carrying the so-called humanitarian aid for Venezuela have arrived at the Colombian border city of ...
“Long live people’s power”, said Maduro, urging the people to continue fighting for their sovereignty. (Peoples Dispatch) On February 2, thousands of citizens and members of social movements and people’s organizations took part in a ...
Who is Juan Guaidó and how did he rise to the head of a movement to end Nicolas Maduro’s reign in Venezuela? Juan Guaidó, a relatively unheard of 35-year-old Venezuelan politician, has suddenly taken Venezuela and the ...
As relations worsen between the US and Russia, is Venezuela beginning to look like the first contested battleground in a new Cold War?
A press conference held by John Bolton suggested the US might send 5,000 troops to Venezuela. Things are getting dangerous in the standoff between the United States and Venezuela. National Security Advisor John Bolton said on ...
In response to Trump declaration, President Nicolas Maduro gives diplomats from ‘imperialist’ U.S. 72 hours to leave the country. (Common Dreams) President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela officially cut off dipomatic ties with the U.S. government ...
Illegal gold mining and the illicit activities that go hand in hand with every step of the process have cast a dark shadow over one territory in Colombia. In the territory of Colombia known as ...
Maduro begins his second term amidst a devastating economic crisis and claims challenging the legitimacy of his presidency. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for his second term in office amid international claims that ...
“The company has been exposed and could not defend itself; they allowed the army to torture us inside the factory.” On Tuesday, two former Ford Motor Company executives were sentenced in an Argentine courtroom for ...
Members of a migrant caravan heading to the U.S. filed a lawsuit suing for their right to declare asylum in the U.S. Six migrants in the caravan traveling from Honduras to the U.S.-Mexico border filed ...
Despite all the vitriol surrounding immigration policy, the reasons behind the crisis in Central America are rarely examined in depth by mainstream media outlets. This article will provide a brief, and by no means exhaustive, ...
The migrant caravan, which has been met with threats from Donald Trump, is the result of poverty, growing crime and repression in Honduras. The US has played a key role in propping up the government ...
How did the migrant caravan approaching the U.S. snowball in size from several hundred to more than 7,000? More than 7,000 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala grouped together this week to travel toward ...
A Guatemalan border town held several thousand migrants by October 18, a portion of whom decided to continue forward and crossed illegally into Mexico on Thursday night. A caravan of an estimated 5,000 Central American ...
Environmental activists have reason to celebrate – the Escazú Agreement is the first ever multi-national commitment to protecting environmental defenders. Heads of state in 14 Latin American countries have signed the first international treaty pledging specific ...
The fight against global warming and climate change has never been deadlier according to a new report by Global Witness found activists defending the environment are being murdered in record numbers. At least 207 environmental ...
As the crisis confronting immigrants attempting to enter the US continues to reach greater and greater proportions, it is important to understand why this mass migration is occurring and the role the United States government ...
(InSight Crime, by Parker Asman) Authorities in Honduras have accused dozens of officials and collaborators of diverting millions of dollars of public money for political purposes, including to fund President Juan Orlando Hernández’s 2013 campaign. ...
As the biggest election in Mexico’s history gets closer,so grows the death toll of politicians in Mexico. Between September and last week, 113 politicians including 43 political candidates have met untimely deaths at the hands ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to provide a three-year $50 billion stand-by agreement (SBA) to Argentina to help boost the Latin American nation out of a currency crisis. The amount is the largest ...
On Saturday, Cuba’s National Assembly appointed former leader Raul Castro to lead a commission charged with revamping the country’s constitution. The revisions are expected to provide the legal support for the country’s more open social ...
Last Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia saw former senator Ivan Duque, from Centro Democratico, win 39 percent of the vote, while ex-rebel-turned-politician Gustavo Petro took nearly 25 percent of the vote. Coming in third was ex-Medellin ...
(Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, by Mary Triny Zea) The natives of Cartí Sugdup island, in the archipelago of Guna Yala — known worldwide as San Blas — on the northeast end of the province of ...
Writer Tanya Saracho is breaking new ground as the first Latina showrunner for a premium cable series. Her show “Vida” debuts on Starz this Sunday, May 6, and is taking pains to respect the authenticity ...
Despite the arrests of several prominent Hondurans in a massive healthcare scandal that took the lives of thousands of Honduran civilians the crisis still plagues the national healthcare system. With the start of 2018, Honduran courts ...
A new epidemic of Honduras corruption and conflicts of interest within the healthcare system of Honduras has left thousands dead from adulterated medicine. The first evidence of widespread Honduras corruption in the healthcare industry occurred as ...
On Tuesday, the El Salvador court released a 34-year-old woman who spent 15 years in jail for abortion crimes. Some see the woman’s release as a sign of abortion laws worldwide becoming increasingly sympathetic to ...
The once booming Venezuela economy is near collapse. Basic necessities like oil and food are in short supply. Political parties are fighting over rewriting the constitution while citizens turn to gas smuggling, bitcoin, and selling ...
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