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Children play by the fence on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border

Washington blames record migration on ‘communism’ when the causes are closer to home

December 23, 2022

After two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, four times as many undocumented migrants are trying to cross the border into the United States, and he’s getting desperate to explain away the increase. In September, the administration discovered a new narrative: that migrants are fleeing “communism.”

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, US intervention, migration

Nicaraguan migrants at the U.S. border – are they being “pushed” or “pulled”?

Nicaraguan migrants at the U.S. border – are they being “pushed” or “pulled”?

November 26, 2022

Why are more Nicaraguans heading north to the United States looking for jobs? Until July 2020, numbers were tiny. But in the last 1½ years numbers have increased sharply. Suddenly this has become a story, and government detractors argue, with little evidence, that people are fleeing political repression. “They’d rather die than return to Nicaragua,” […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Costa Rica, US intervention, Mexico, migration, Nicaragua crisis, Nicaragua

The UN Refugee Agency is exaggerating the number of Nicaraguan refugees

The UN Refugee Agency is exaggerating the number of Nicaraguan refugees

June 29, 2022

Two years ago, COHA reported on the manufactured “refugee” crisis around Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica. Now the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is saying that “102,000 people fled Nicaragua and sought asylum in Costa Rica” in 2021. As this article shows, this statement is inaccurate, adding further to the myth that Nicaragua is suffering […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, migration

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: 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

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: drugs, Mexico, migration, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua

Photo: Steve Helber/Associated Press

No separate queue for Cubans

January 17, 2017

‘We’re leaving,’ my Cuban friend N. told me in November. ‘We’re building a raft.’ I was shocked, partly because he planned to leave, partly because of the way he planned to do it. I consulted another friend, who’d spent several months in a coastguard team, hauling people out of the water when their rafts fell […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention, migration | 2 Responses

Tackling discrimination in housing

Tackling discrimination in housing

September 27, 2016

Given the increase in race-related hate crime before and since June’s referendum, housing organisations need to be even more alert to possible discrimination in housing than they were before. CIH has already warned about the likely effects in the private rented sector of the new ‘right to rent’ document checks that began in England in […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, migration, race

The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley

The refugee crisis brought to life

May 6, 2016

Patrick Kingsley is the Guardian’s migration correspondent, who as well as telling the story of recent migration to Europe in the newspaper has now produced an enthralling book, The New Odyssey, which is also bang up to date. Anyone who wants to know why people leave Syria, or Eritrea, or risk the crossing of the […]

Category: Migration, Book reviews | Tags: migration policy, migration, refugees

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