Articles by Upside Down World
Plot to Murder Paramilitaries in Colombia
Colombia’s Interior Minister denounced a conspiracy to murder right-wing paramilitary fighters in order to protect the country’s political elite. Minister Carlos Holguin said that the murder of Jamie Andres Angarita last week was part of […]
Roger Noriega’s Vision of the Americas
Roger Noriega, the former assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs known for his meddling in the internal affairs of many Latin American and Caribbean nations, now issues proclamations about U.S.-Latin America policy from […]
Ten Years of Peace in Guatemala?
Friday marks the ten year anniversary of the signing of Guatemala’s Peace Accords, which ended the country’s 36-year civil war. The war, one of Latin America’s bloodiest, left some 200,000 mostly indigenous people dead and tens […]
Trinidad Rejects Controversial Smelter
The Trinidad government rejected U.S. based ALCOA’s attempt to build a projected $1.5 billion aluminum smelter in the southwestern part of the country. The government decided to "immediately discontinue all plans to establish an industrial […]