The Siege of El Estor: Resistance to the Continuation of an Extractive and Repressive Neoliberal Status Quo in Guatemala

First-hand reporting and analysis of the Maya Q’eqchi’ resistance movement against multinational corporate exploitation and in defense of land, nature, and the inalienable right to exist.

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Latin America and the Western Hemisphere, Human Rights Ben Gutman, Senior Staff Writer Latin America and the Western Hemisphere, Human Rights Ben Gutman, Senior Staff Writer

El Mozote: Revisiting the U.S.’s Role in the “Worst Massacre in Modern Latin American History”

El Salvador’s government under the leadership of Nayib Bukele has engaged in some of the most authoritarian measures since the civil war, including the sabotage of an ongoing investigation into the 1981 El Mozote Massacre. The U.S. government has played an equally damaging role in preventing accountability and justice for the victim’s families.

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Latin America and the Western Hemisphere, International Development Ben Gutman, Senior Staff Writer Latin America and the Western Hemisphere, International Development Ben Gutman, Senior Staff Writer

A Brutal History of Foreign Meddling in Haiti is Responsible for its Ongoing Crises

From European colonialism to U.S. imperialism, foreign powers have only ever been interested in securing their own foreign policy interests, primarily based on the extraction of wealth from the Haitian people.

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Latin America and the Western Hemisphere, International Development Ben Gutman, Senior Staff Writer Latin America and the Western Hemisphere, International Development Ben Gutman, Senior Staff Writer

Mainstream Media Framing of Post-Assassination Haiti Pushes for U.S. Intervention

Minimal and decontextualized coverage of Haitian protests prior to the assassination of Haitian president and close U.S. ally Jovenel Moïse helped safeguard his PHTK party’s catastrophic neoliberal agenda. Since Moïse’s assassination, a media flood on Haiti’s political crisis is setting the stage for further foreign intervention.

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The U.S. Needs to Enforce Its Own Laws on Foreign Military Aid to Colombia

Under the control of numerous Colombian presidents, the Colombian military has taken advantage of billions of dollars in U.S. military funding to engage in systematic suppression of grassroots social movements

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Latin America at the Center of Shift in International Development Banking

The abrupt end to a 60-year-old unwritten rule at the Inter-American Development Bank could lead to international repercussions in lending practices and bureaucratic structure in other regional development banks.

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