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Nicaraguans gather at the Jesus El Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Tapachula, Mexico July, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Torres

Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’-or Economic Downturn?

November 3, 2021

“Record numbers” of migrants are coming into the United States from Nicaragua, according to Newsweek, which blames the increase on “arbitrary arrests and human rights abuses” by the Nicaraguan government. Former Sandinista leader Sergio Ramírez, writing for El Salvador’s El Faro, claims that “repression” by President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista government is causing a “dramatic growth” […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, US intervention, Mexico, migration, Guatemala, Nicaraguan elections

Honduran migrants halted in Guatemala (photo: Reuters)

If it were a narco lab, it would be working

February 16, 2021

On the day he was inaugurated, Joe Biden halted the construction of Trump’s Mexican border wall. A few days earlier, 1500 miles to the south, a new ‘caravan’ of at least eight thousand Honduran migrants had set off northwards, partly in the hope that by the time they tried to cross into Texas, Biden’s promised […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Honduras, US intervention, migration, Guatemala

Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer

Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer

November 15, 2020

“Almost every American overthrow of a foreign government has left in its wake a bitter residue of pain and anger.” A review of Overthrow by Stephen Kinser, published in 2006.

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: US intervention, Guatemala, chile, Honduras, Nicaragua | 3 Responses

Rhys Evans obituary

Rhys Evans obituary

October 17, 2020

Rhys Evans, who died on August 29 aged 80 of motor neurone disease, was a genuine polymath. Formally a schoolteacher, he was also an adult education tutor, youth worker, linguist, musician, internationalist, hillwalker, cyclist and gifted writer of poems and stories (which he only shared with very few). He was fluent in German and Spanish, […]

Category: Obituaries | Tags: Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala

A mural showing Archbishop Romero

Murder in El Salvador

January 26, 2020

A review of ‘November’ by Jorge Galán El Salvador is the smallest country in mainland Latin America – only the size of Wales. But in the 1980s El Salvador and its neighbours, Honduras and Guatemala, had an unlooked-for strategic significance. After the success of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua in 1979, the United States was […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: US intervention, Guatemala, El Salvador | 1 Response

The worst journey in the Americas

The worst journey in the Americas

June 28, 2017

A review of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Óscar Martínez Living in Nicaragua, I regularly meet people who have migrated or want to migrate to neighbouring countries. I’ve also met people who take their chances going to Spain without a visa (including one who claimed to be […]

Category: Migration, Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, drugs, Mexico, migration, Guatemala, El Salvador

The mural 'Gloriosa Victoria' by Diego Rivera, depicting Eisenhower (the face on the bomb), Castillo de Armas (shaking the hand of Foster Dulles, dressed as a pilot) and products of the United Fruit Company (Photo: Informacionlibre2000)

Ten years after D-Day

June 27, 2014

Over ten days in June 1954, a decade after the D-Day landings, the CIA sent twelve planes to drop bombs and propaganda on towns in Guatemala in support of a coup against the elected government of Jácobo Arbenz. They did only minor damage at first: one plane bombed the wrong radio station, another ran out […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Guatemala

El Dorado

El Dorado

May 20, 2014

Last June the G8 agreed a new plan called the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which is supposed to ensure poor countries receive the full benefit of their natural resources. Canada is one of EITI’s stakeholder countries; 60 per cent of the world’s mining companies are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. One of them, Pacific […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, mining, El Salvador

Many Siria Valley residents say they are still living with the health, environmental and other impacts of Goldcorp's mine in Honduras. Photo by Rachel Deutsch

Extracting the truth about mining

June 25, 2013

Plans by the G8 to make international mining operations more transparent are to be welcomed. But the agreement is limited in scope and the extractive industries still have a long way to go to clean up their act.

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment | Tags: Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, mining, El Salvador

Genocide in Guatemala

May 15, 2013

In 1954, the elected, mildly progressive president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz, was deposed in a coup orchestrated by the CIA. Arbenz planned modest land reforms that threatened the interests of the United Fruit Company. His successor reversed the reforms and put to the firing squad an estimated 8000 opponents. The coup launched 42 years of dictatorship […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Guatemala

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