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The Power of a Good Example: Nicaragua and the Covid Response - Collateral Global

The Power of a Good Example: Nicaragua and the Covid Response – Collateral Global

November 24, 2022

In this podcast, CG steering committee member Toby Green talks with John Perry, contributor to the London Review of Books, FAIR and other publications on Nicaraguan affairs.

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, coronavirus

A Tale of Two Countries: Honduras & Nicaragua face the shock doctrine

A Tale of Two Countries: Honduras & Nicaragua face the shock doctrine

October 12, 2022

Jenny Atlee, Jim Phillips and I presented a webinar on neighbouring countries, Honduras and Nicaragua, that have both suffered what Naomi Klein called the “shock doctrine”. Both rejected neoliberalism in elections last year, but both are under renewed pressure to conform to Washington’s expectations. My contribution compares the two countries’ approaches to the pandemic, and […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, Covid-19

Garifuna people in Orinoco celebrate 185 years since their arrival in Nicaragua

It began with a shipwreck

August 9, 2022

Some time in the 17th century, a vessel carrying enslaved people from the west coast of Africa ran aground near the Caribbean island of St Vincent, close enough to shore that the survivors swam to land, disposed of their captors and settled alongside the Indigenous Carib-Arawak people, who already offered a safe haven to runaway […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, caribbean, Indigenous people

JOH’s luck runs out

JOH’s luck runs out

April 21, 2022

Until 27 January, Juan Orlando Hernández was president of Honduras; he’s now on his way to a high-security prison in New York, awaiting trial. On the day JOH handed power to Xiomara Castro, charges were filed against him that would lead to an extradition request from the US embassy in Tegucigalpa. He was arrested on […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, Honduras, drugs

Honduran presidential candidate for the Libertad y Refundacion (LIBRE) party Xiomara Castro.
Orlando Sierra—AFP/Getty Images

End of a Narcostate?

November 26, 2021

Joe Biden has a Central America problem. Countries that turned reliably neoliberal after the ‘small wars’ of the 1980s have become unwieldy again. After sixteen years of neoliberalism, Nicaraguans returned Daniel Ortega to power in 2007 and re-elected him this month in a vote which Biden dismissed as a ‘pantomime’. In El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, […]

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

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: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico, migration, Guatemala, Nicaraguan elections, US intervention, Honduras

From left to right: President JOH of Honduras, U.S. Vice President Biden, President Morales of Guatemala, and President Sánchez Cerén of El Salvador in a 2016 meeting.

United States struggles to pick a side in upcoming Honduran elections

September 8, 2021

For Biden, backing a candidate for the November elections in Honduras is a choice between protecting U.S. business interests and condemning the corruption, drug trafficking, and violence that increase migration. Of the countries in Central America’s “northern triangle,” Honduras is the one that sends the most migrants to the United States. Already this year over […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Honduras

The US base, Soto Cano, in Honduras

The US stake in Nicaragua and Honduras’s 2021 elections

June 8, 2021

Both Honduras and Nicaragua hold presidential elections in November 2021 and the US government has a strong interest in both, although for rather different reasons. Both have incumbent presidents who will either stand again or, in the case of Honduras, more likely be replaced as candidate by a successor seen as reliably committed to the […]

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

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