Source: Caterwaul Quarterly Imagining politics as a form of war, we must ask: What place is given to life, death, and the human body (in particular the wounded or slain body)? How are they inscribed […]
Source: Just Foreign Policy Did a CID-Gallup poll last week indicate that a plurality of Hondurans support the military coup against democratically elected President Zelaya? Yes, according to the Washington Post [July 9], the Wall […]
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The United States embassy, in the eleven months under President Fernando Lugo and at the start of an important process in the country, has become the government’s principal and prodigious collaborator in what has been […]
Source: NY Times Excerpt: Mr. Micheletti has embarked on a public relations offensive, with his supporters hiring high-profile lawyers with strong Washington connections to lobby against such sanctions. One powerful Latin American business council hired […]
Source: Venezuela Analysis The coup government of Honduras arrested Telesur and Venezuelan TV (VTV) journalists on Saturday night. The two channels, based in Venezuela, are the only channels globally to transmit ongoing coverage of the […]
Source: Weekly News Update on the Americas On the evening of July 11 a group of men entered the home of Honduran activist Roger Bados in the 6 de Mayo neighborhood of the northern city […]
Walking through the streets of Guatemala City, HIJOS slogans are hard to miss: "Justice for Nueva Linda"; "Trial and Punishment for Military Assassins!" Words demanding an end to impunity remind everyone that 36 years of civil war in Guatemala have not ended in justice or peace. […]
Source: Democracy Now! [Watch the video interview here] JUAN GONZALEZ: Talks between the ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and the leaders of last week’s military coup begin today in Costa Rica. Speaking late Wednesday Zelaya […]
If we assume that the Obama administration is following all previous recent administrations’ policy of genocide, brute force, terror, authoritarian rule and other forms of inhumane repression, we ignore the evidence that we are in a new, more complex and indeed more dangerous moment for the Bolivarian project of Latin American unity. To understand our moment we need to look back three-fourths of a century, to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his "Good Neighbor" policy. […]
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