Source: NPR “The refugee has got to be checked because, unfortunately, among the refugees there are some spies, as has been found in other countries.” It could have been said today about the Syrian refugee […]
Source: The Nation A new documentary, Chicago Boys, looks at the Chilean economists who brought neoliberalism from the halls of Chicago to the policies of Latin America. “I didn’t know absolutely nothing.” That double negative is from Sergio de […]
Source: MiningWatch Canada Canadian and US organizations are calling a British Columbia judge’s refusal to hear a lawsuit against Tahoe Resources over violence at its Guatemala mine site wilfully blind to the gravity of the […]
Source: SOA Watch For a decade, the FBI, flagrantly abused its counter-terrorism authority to conduct a widespread surveillance and monitoring operation of School of Americas Watch (SOAW), a nonviolent activist organization founded by pacifists with […]
Source: E-International Relations “It is women who have the job of going to collect water, and sometimes the children; we [women] suffer because there’s no water.” (Woman from the community Totoral, Bolivia, 16 may 2013) [1]. […]
Source: Remezcla.com The myth of the Latin American racial democracy, scholars believe, began in Brazil following the abolishment of slavery in 1888, when government officials declared that high rates of racial mixing had officially absolved […]
Source: Intercontinental Cry The celebratory cries of “Marici weu” “Marici weu[1]” could be heard echoing throughout the streets of the sleepy mining town of Zapala in southwest Argentina. After eight days of intense deliberations in […]
Source: Latin America in Movement This month marks the tenth anniversary of the defeat of the FTAA. What can we learn from that victory and the subsequent corporate counter-offensive in Latin America for our current […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas The new film Our Brand is Crisis doesn’t tell us how a president who authorized the massacre of indigenous Bolivians has lived with impunity in the U.S. for 12 […]
Source: The Nation Migrant families are being held for months in inhumane detention centers, just for fleeing violence at home. When Yaniret fled Honduras to escape a partner who had threatened to kill her, she didn’t […]
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