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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 […]

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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: Cuba, US intervention, Venezuela, Nicaragua | Leave a response

Photo: Teri Mattson, Workers’ Summit, Tijuana, at the U.S. Border Wall

“Summit of Exclusion” Backfires on Biden

June 14, 2022

Jill Clark-Gollub, COHA Assistant Editor/Translator; Alina Duarte, COHA Senior Fellow; John Perry, COHA Senior Fellow “We would definitely have wanted a different Summit of the Americas. The silence of those absent challenges us. So that this does not happen again, I would like to state for the future that the fact of being the host […]

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

The Summit of the Americas could be Biden’s next foreign policy embarrassment

The Summit of the Americas could be Biden’s next foreign policy embarrassment

May 16, 2022

The grandly named Summit of the Americas is due to be held in Los Angeles next month, if the Biden administration can decide who to invite and what to talk about if they turn up. As things stand, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, Honduras and most of the Caribbean states have said they will not attend if […]

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

Kevin Zeese,

Whose embassy?

February 19, 2020

Under the 1961 Vienna Convention, foreign embassies are ‘inviolable’: the host country’s officials have a ‘special duty’ to protect them and can’t enter without permission. When the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC was besieged last summer, the National Lawyers Guild said that the US government had flouted the convention by condoning the attacks and protecting […]

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

Humboldt travelling towards Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador (Image: BPK/SPSG, Berlin-Brandenburg/Hermann Buresch)

The discoverer of the New World

August 30, 2016

A review of ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf On 16 July 1799 a revolutionary thinker arrived in Latin America. Unlike most Europeans who had preceded him to the continent, he didn’t believe in slavery and he promoted the rights of indigenous people. He saw mining for gold and silver for the exploitation it […]

Category: Latin America, Energy and the environment, Book reviews | Tags: environment, Colombia, Latin America, Venezuela, Bolivar, volcanoes

Call for President Obama to revoke his Executive Order against Venezuela

Call for President Obama to revoke his Executive Order against Venezuela

April 3, 2015

Over 120 organisations have signed a letter to President Obama instigated by the Alliance for Global Justice, calling on him to rescind his executive order which imposes sanctions on officials in Venezuela and describes the government of Nicolas Maduro as an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States’.  […]

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

A man in Caracas walks past a mural featuring Simon Bolivar and Hugo Chavez Photo: CNN

The United States of South America

March 1, 2014

Creating the USSA was the driving ambition of Latin America’s ‘Liberator’, Simón Bolívar. According to his biographer Marie Arana, it may well have been in London in 1810, in conversations with Francisco de Miranda, that he first conceived of a federal power in the southern continent to match that in the north. He spent the […]

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

Simón Bolívar: relentless ambition and flashes of brilliance. Photograph: G Dagli Orti/ De Agostini/ Getty Images

The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

February 22, 2014

I revisited this novel after reading the new biography of Simon Bolívar by Marie Arana, because after her factual description of what is known about the last weeks of Bolívar’s life, it seemed only appropriate to see them as re-imagined by García Márquez.  I would strongly recommend the combination of books for anyone interested in […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivar

What’s in it for Ecuador?

June 28, 2013

If Ecuador grants asylum to Edward Snowden, no doubt we’ll hear Rafael Correa being described once more as a ‘tinpot president’, ready to welcome dissidents to Ecuador’s ‘jungly bosom’. If instead Snowden ends up in Venezuela or Cuba, his would-be jailers will move even further onto their moral high ground.

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

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