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Latin America three months into the Trumpocalypse

Latin America three months into the Trumpocalypse

April 18, 2025

Roger D. Harris and John Perry Nobody is complaining anymore about Latin America and the Caribbean being neglected by the hegemon to the north. The Trump administration is contending with it on multiple fronts: prioritizing “massive deportations,” halting the “flood of drugs,” combatting “threats to US security,” and stopping other countries from “ripping us off” […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, panama, Brazil, Bolivar, chile, El Salvador, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras | Leave a response

Irregular Warfare

Irregular Warfare

April 9, 2025

El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) opened in 2023. It has capacity for up to forty thousand prisoners, although is said to be only half full. CECOT was built to incarcerate alleged members of violent gangs, who by 2015 had made El Salvador the Western Hemisphere’s most dangerous country. Dispensing with warrants and […]

Category: Latin America, Uncategorized | Tags: El Salvador, Venezuela, migration

Meet the Washington think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans

Meet the Washington think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans

April 7, 2025

These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Cuba, sanctions, Venezuela, US intervention

John Bolton, previously Trump's National Security Adviser, receives a parting gift from USAID: "John R. Bolton, Truest Reaganaut"

The Demise of USAID: Few Regrets in Latin America

February 11, 2025

By John Perry and Roger D. Harris “Take your money with you,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, “it’s poison.”

Category: Latin America | Tags: human rights, Venezuela, US intervention, Cuba, Nicaragua

Whether Biden or Trump, US’s Latin American Policy Will Still Be Contemptible

Whether Biden or Trump, US’s Latin American Policy Will Still Be Contemptible

February 2, 2025

By John Perry and Roger D. Harris With Donald Trump as the new US president, pundits are speculating about how US policy towards Latin America might change. In this article, we look at some of the speculation, then address three specific instances of how the US’s policy priorities may be viewed from a progressive, Latin […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: El Salvador, panama, Brazil, Guatemala, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, US intervention, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua

What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review

What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review

December 26, 2024

By Roger D. Harris and John Perry The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power replacing failed […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: hond, Nicaragua, panama, Brazil, chile, El Salvador, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, US intervention, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica

UN Human Rights Council again supports US regime change plans for Nicaragua

UN Human Rights Council again supports US regime change plans for Nicaragua

April 8, 2024

Alfred de Zayas and John Perry When the United Nations sets up a “commission of inquiry,” it can result in a powerful analysis of violations of human rights law, such as the one appointed in 2021 to examine Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and its Apartheid practices. But other commissions can become political platforms […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: human rights, Venezuela, Nicaragua, US intervention | 1 Response

Should we be concerned about what ChatGPT “thinks” about Latin America?

Should we be concerned about what ChatGPT “thinks” about Latin America?

April 23, 2023

ChatGPT is a powerful AI chatbot that is as easy to use as Google and provides more direct answers to users’ questions. Ask it anything you like, and you will receive an answer that sounds like it was written by a human, based on knowledge and writing skills gained from massive amounts of data from […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: US intervention, chile, Guatemala, Venezuela, media, Cuba, Nicaragua

Diplomatic immunity

Diplomatic immunity

January 27, 2023

After Harry Dunn was killed by a car that emerged from a US base in Northamptonshire on 27 August 2019, the driver, Anne Sacoolas, claimed diplomatic immunity and within three weeks was whisked out of the country on a US military aircraft, with the British police only being informed after she’d left. Sacoolas eventually appeared […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Venezuela, US intervention | 1 Response

Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

January 10, 2023

A review of the report Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, edited by Sara Flounders for the Sanctions Kill campaign and published by World View Forum. Sanctions imposed without United Nations endorsement are illegal. That is why they could be legally imposed on South Africa by a resolution of the UN General Assembly […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Venezuela, US intervention, Cuba, Nicaragua

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