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Source: NACLA Picked by The Economist as country of the year and celebrated by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa in an El País op-ed, Uruguay is one of the most popular countries these days. […]

Source: Venezuelanalysis.com In the six pages that HRW dedicates to Venezuela in its World Report 2014, released this week, it manages to tell at least 30 serious lies, distortions, and omissions. Pointing out these lies […]

Source: School of the Americas Watch As Juan Orlando Hernandez – Honduras’ next president and the current head of Honduras’ National Congress who is regarded by many as having stolen the November elections through numerous […]

Source: The Argentina Independent Just a few weeks ago, Mandy Skinner was ringing in the new year in the foggy, muddy town of Oventic, Mexico, a community located in the heart of the country’s rural, […]

Source: Jacobin Magazine Evo Morales’s administration has scored some successes, but it has failed to deliver on its more radical promises. Internationally, capitalism is in crisis. But in Bolivia, South America’s poorest country, it’s being […]

Source: Business Insider An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of […]

Source: Mother Jones Only a few months ago, Henry Kissinger was dancing with Stephen Colbert in a funny bit on the latter’s Comedy Central show. But for years, the former secretary of state has sidestepped judgment […]

Source: CISPES On Monday, January 3, Elliot Abrams, former foreign policy advisor to both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, published an editorial in the Washington Post that brashly proclaimed that a Farabundo Martí National […]

In an already tense scenario unfolding in the south of Mexico, the presence of the Mexican Army is only producing more violence. Source: Socialist Worker In the southwestern state of Michoacán in Mexico, the armed […]

Born in Cuba, Carlos Zorrilla left the island when he was 11 and emigrated with his family to the United States. But the promised land did not live up to his expectations. Like many of […]