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| Laura Flanders Show: After Hurricane Maria The conversation in other media seems to be shifting to the social crises that are emerging -- but for many basic supplies, services and medical care are still nowhere in sight April 16, 2018 |
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| Miscarriage of Justice: Ex-President Lula's Imprisonment in Brazil The persecution and prosecution of former president Lula da Silva is a transparent attempt to remove Brazil's most popular candidate from the presidential race because he is also the one most disliked by the country's elite, says CEPR's Mark Weisbrot April 13, 2018 |
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| Lula Leads in Polls as Court Upholds Conviction Former president of Brazil Lula da Silva's corruption conviction was upheld by an appeals court, which, according to Brazilian law, mean's he's not allowed to hold office for 8 years. But that hasn't stopped Lula from campaigning for the upcoming presidential election in October. Journalist Mike Fox explains March 28, 2018 |
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| Puerto Rico's New Fiscal Plan Will Cause Another 'Lost Decade' Six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's new fiscal plan - which supposedly takes the hurricane's devastation into account - will demand citizens pay off debts they cannot possibly repay, leading to deeper economic decline, says CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot March 25, 2018 |
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| Brazil's Military Takeover in Rio Sparks Authoritarian Fears Deeply unpopular Brazilian President Michel Temer issued a decree to put the military in charge of security in Rio de Janeiro instead of police, dubiously claiming the purpose is to crack down on crime. But many Brazilians worry that it's the first stage in a return to military rule, explains journalist Brian Mier March 2, 2018 |
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| Leftist Hopeful's Lead Signals Upheaval for Mexico Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador enjoys a double-digit lead in Mexico's presidential race despite an active smear campaign against him. A tactical alliance between divided leftist groups might still be possible, says John Ackerman February 14, 2018 |
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| Is the Conflict Within Ecuador's Center-Left a Turn to the Right? In a crushing blow to former president Rafael Correa, his hand-picked successor Lenin Moreno overwhelmingly won a referendum that reverses some Correa's policies and bars him from running again. Is this a left-right conflict or something else? February 5, 2018 |
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| Trump Preemptively Dismisses Upcoming Venezuelan Presidential Vote In an effort to discredit Venezuela's upcoming presidential election, the Trump administration is rallying conservative governments in Latin America to discredit the vote and isolate Venezuela. If the opposition enters the race divided and if new economic measures work, President Maduro could still win explains Lucas Koerner February 3, 2018 |
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| Honduras: President Hernandez's Inauguration Rejected by Protesters Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez is proceeding with his inauguration, despite massive fraud allegations, protests, and a major new drug corruption scandal involving the head of Police. US, Canada, Mexico, and the OAS give him a green light to proceed January 26, 2018 |
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| Puerto Rico's New Power Struggle: Privatization Four months after Hurricane Maria and with close to half of its residents still without power, Puerto Rico has announced it will privatize its debt-ridden public electric utility, PREPA. We speak to Petra Bartosiewicz of Harper's Magazine January 24, 2018 |
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| Repression Against Honduran Opposition Intensifies Over 200 demonstrators were injured in last week's demonstrations against the incumbent president, whose reelection lacks legitimacy according to the opposition and international observers. The opposition is now gearing up for a national strike in the lead-up to the inauguration, explains Heather Gies, reporting from Honduras January 18, 2018 |
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| Just How Democratic Is Mexico? As neoliberalism caused greater inequality and more poverty in Mexico ever since the 1990's, the country's leaders stifled press freedom and democratic rights in order to maintain power. Now Mexico has one of the world's highest murder rates of journalists explains CEPR's Mark Weisbrot January 2, 2018 |
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| Outrage in Peru Over Pardon of Ex-President Fujimori Thousands of protestors took to the streets amid suspicions that President Kuczynski pardoned former President Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity, in order to avoid impeachment for corruption December 27, 2017 |
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| US Works to Uphold Flawed Honduras Vote The Trump administration is trying to legitimize the conservative incumbent's position in office by convincing friendly governments to recognize the deeply flawed vote in Honduras, despite growing calls for a new vote, explains Mark Weisbrot December 23, 2017 |
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| Will Honduras Get New Presidential Elections? Amid ongoing protests against President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras, he will be sworn in this week for a second term in office. Luther Castillio returns home to fight the stolen election supported by Danny Glover and Sacramento City Councilman Allen Warren.
Electoral observers from the OAS are calling for new elections, but they still won't use the word "fraud." Gerardo Torres, international coordinator of the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, and Luther Castillo, former Vice Minister in the Department of Health, discuss next steps December 21, 2017 |
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| US Pressure Led to Massacre of Colombian Farmers Empire Files' Abby Martin says the massacre of unarmed coca farmers in Tumaco, Colombia was in response to pressure from the Trump administration to undermine the government's crop substitution agreement and use force in the "war on drugs" December 21, 2017 |
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| Ecuador's Vice-President Sentenced to Six Years Prison for Corruption Ecuador's Vice-President Jorge Glas has been sentenced to six years prison for taking $13 million in bribes from the construction company Odebrecht. However, the case is being complicated by a split within the ruling party and between President Moreno and ex-President Correa December 15, 2017 |
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| Brazil's Corruption Scandal Ensnares Anti-Corruption Judge New testimony in Brazil's on-going corruption investigations lays bare Judge Sergio Moro's conflict of interest and the possibility that he and his wife might have taken bribes for reducing sentences. Brian Mier of Brazil Wire reports December 6, 2017 |
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| Argentine Government Bars Major NGO Representatives from WTO Meeting In an unprecedented move that violates World Trade Organization rules, Argentina revoked accreditations of representatives of 20 NGOs, preventing them from attending the 11th WTO Meeting in Buenos Aires next week. Deborah James of CEPR explains the significance of this decision December 3, 2017 |
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| Protests Erupt as Honduras Presidential Election Results Reversed The country's electoral authority reversed the initial presidential election results, now giving the conservative incumbent a lead in the vote count. Tensions are mounting as protesters clash with the police. Heather Gies reports from Tegucigalpa, Honduras November 30, 2017 |
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| Opposition Wins Honduras Presidential Race, But Problems Lie Ahead Honduras' incumbent President Hernandez has not conceded the election and President-elect Salvador Nasralla faces many obstacles implementing a left-of-center and anti-corruption agenda, as his supporters would like. Prof. Adrienne Pine of American University explains November 28, 2017 |
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| Trump's New Cold War Hurts Ordinary Cubans The State Department announced a tightening of the US economic embargo against Cuba, which hurts average Cubans and reverts to failed Cold War policies, explains Cuba specialist Professor Sujatha Fernandes November 20, 2017 |
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| Venezuela Elections: Why Does the Corporate Media Keep Crying Fraud? The international media was quick to report on potential fraud in Venezuela's regional elections, in which the ruling socialist party won a majority of governorships. But there isn't any evidence of massive fraud, says Alex Main from the Center for Economic and Policy Research October 22, 2017 |
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| Colombian State Escalates Violence Against Activists Coca cultivation and the lack of alternatives to escape poverty continue to lie at the root of the ongoing violence in Colombia, despite the peace accords, explains Mario Murillo of Hofstra University October 14, 2017 |
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| Trump Threatens the Aid that Puerto Rico Needs President Trump has threatened to withdraw federal emergency workers from the Puerto Rico as much of the island remains in dire straits, says Julio Lopez Varona of Make the Road Connecticut October 13, 2017 |
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| Puerto Rico Faces a Medicaid Crisis On top of the devastating impact of recent hurricanes and an ongoing debt crisis, Puerto Rico's Medicaid funding will run out as early as the end of the year unless Congress acts explains CEPR's Mark Weisbrot October 9, 2017 |
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| Colombian Government and Second Rebel Group Implement Ceasefire Colombia's National Liberation Army, the ELN, and the government of Colombia implement a ceasefire agreement after 50 years of war. Peace negotiations are now underway, with the aim of eliminating violence from politics, explains the ELN's head negotiator, Pablo Beltran October 6, 2017 |
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| Puerto Rico's Recovery is a Battle Against Austerity As the Trump administration touts its relief effort in Puerto Rico as a 'good news story' and threatens more austerity, writer Ed Morales argues the island's devastation is a wake-up call against neoliberal excess September 30, 2017 |
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| Trump Sees Devastated Puerto Rico as Captive Market Refusing to waive shipping restrictions and stressing Wall Street debt obligations, President Trump continues a colonial legacy that hampers Puerto Rico's recovery, says scholar Marisol LeBron September 28, 2017 |
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| Wall Street Got a Bailout, Why Not Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico was in dire economic straits before Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit, and ongoing US-imposed restrictions will make recovery impossible, says labor leader Hector Figueroa September 27, 2017 |
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| Puerto Rico Goes Dark After its Power is Stripped Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico, but massive debt and a crumbling infrastructure put the island in crisis long before the storm, says Monxo Lopez, a professor at Hunter College September 22, 2017 |
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| The Earthquake Just Keeps Going in Mexico Central Mexico's 7.1 magnitude earthquake has over 225 casualties so far, but it had help from a government that let infrastructure and buildings crumble long before the quake hit September 20, 2017 |
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| Earthquake in Mexico Unearths Years of Corruption The Mexican government learned some lessons after the devastating earthquake of 1985, but there hasn't been an end to corruption, says Laura Carlsen of the Center for International Policy September 20, 2017 |
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| Venezuela's President Maduro Presents New Economic Measures CEPR's Mark Weisbrot explains that the new measures can help alleviate some of Venezuela's economic problems, but do not address the heart of the problem, which is an inflation-depreciation spiral that has given the country an extraordinarily high inflation rate. Trump's recent illegal sanctions will make the situation even more difficult September 11, 2017 |
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| Patriot Act Foils Uruguay's Marijuana Sales U.S. banks say the 2001 Patriot Act prevents them from doing business with banks in Uruguay that provide services for newly legalized pot sales. The politics in all of it is 'rank hypocrisy,' says economist Bill Black August 31, 2017 |
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| 'Donald Trump of Brazil' Runs for President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's bombastic, homophobic, sexist, and dictatorship-defending presidential candidate is rising in the polls. Mike Fox reports from Brazil August 25, 2017 |
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| Ecuador: President Moreno In Battle with Former President Correa Ecuador's former president Rafael Correa is accusing recently elected president Lenin Moreno of moving the country to the right, using corruption accusations against Vice-President and Correa friend Jorge Glas as cover. TRNN's Greg Wilpert reports August 16, 2017 |
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| Wilkerson: Trump Has No Business Threatening Venezuela As President Trump claims he won't rule out military force in Venezuela, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, says "we need to keep our dirty hands off Latin America" August 15, 2017 |
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| 30,000 Mexicans Have Disappeared in Past 10 Years Laura Carlsen of the Center for International Policy says that as thousands disappear the Mexican government has turns a blind eye instead of investigating and preventing disappearances August 13, 2017 |
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| UN Human Rights Report on Venezuela Ignores Opposition Violence Prof. George Ciccariello-Maher of Drexel University analyzes the latest developments in Venezuela, including a new UN human rights report, US sanctions, and the begrudging admission by President Maduro's foes that he still has popular support August 9, 2017 |
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| Controversy Over Venezuelan Vote Count The CEO of the company that sold and operates the voting machines in Venezuela says that there was a discrepancy of 1 million votes between the turnout figures announced by the CNE and those recorded by his systems. TRNN correspondent Gregory Wilpert and labor and human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik discuss the implications. Shortly after this interview, CNE president Lucena said the pronouncement was irresponsible and is considering legal action against Smartmatic August 2, 2017 |
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| A New Generation of Paramilitary Groups is Killing Social Activists in Colombia A New Generation of Paramilitary Groups are Killing Social Activists in Colombia
Colombia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for social activists. We speak to Bladimir Sanchez Espitia, a TRNN collaborator who documents cases of human rights violations and has received a "death letter" himself August 2, 2017 |
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| Trump Sanctions Maduro The U.S. imposed sanctions on President Nicolas Maduro after his sweeping victory in an election UN Ambassador Nikki Haley calls "another step towards a dictatorship." TRNN discusses the implications with author Steve Ellner and historian Miguel Tinker Salas August 1, 2017 |
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| Brazil Gets Ready to Roll Back Labor Rights Brazil's labor reform is set to pass the legislature and workers fear a dramatic worsening of their living conditions as a result. A special report from Brazil by Mike Fox June 7, 2017 |
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| Brazil's Most Important News Outlet Plays Kingmaker Globo TV withdraws support from President Michel Temer by leaking incriminating recording and issues retraction that implicated former president Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff: report from Mike Fox in Brazil May 27, 2017 |
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| Opposition Protests in Venezuela Lead to Six Deaths Clashes between protesters and police continued throughout the week in Venezuela, but polls indicate that the government is recuperating popularity and most Venezuelans disagree with opposition tactics says Lucas Koerner of Venezuelanalysis.com April 15, 2017 |
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| Ecuador Elections Appear Headed Towards Run-off Despite Rafael Correa's success in improving infrastructure and social spending, the recent recession and attacks by private mass media have dampened enthusiasm for his former vice president Lenin Moreno February 20, 2017 |
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| Reflections from Cubans on Castro (2/2) James Early and Paul Jay discuss the potential role of independent trade unions in Cuban politics and the future of relations with the US under President Trump December 29, 2016 |
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| Obama and the Decline of the Left in Latin America Obama's presidency treated the prospect of democratic nationalism in Latin America similarly as other US presidents, and nearly everybody who was allied with Chavez is now gone, says Consortium News contributor Ted Snider December 12, 2016 |
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| Fidel Castro and Political Rights in Cuba James Early and Paul Jay discuss the death of Fidel Castro and how corporate media deals with the question of political freedoms and human rights in Cuba November 27, 2016 |
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| Will the Revised Colombia Peace Accord Succeed? The proposed revisions came primarily from the right-wing while social movements and peace activists around the country were left outside of the renegotiation, says Professor Mario Murillo November 21, 2016 |
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| Brazil Poised to Return to Authoritarian Rule Under Temer Cassia Bechara of MST says that the Temer government is repressing and criminalizing those who oppose its agenda - including social movements and former Presidents Lula Da Silva and Dilma Rousseff - in order to legitimize itself November 9, 2016 |
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| Brazil's Landless Workers Movement: MST Under Attack By State Police Joaquin Pinero, a member of the MST directorate in Rio de Janeiro says this type of repression and false allegations of social movement leaders has become rampant in Brazil since the Temer Government took office. MST has been organizing a national general strike that will take place on November 11th. November 4, 2016 |
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| Venezuelan Opposition Seeks Legislative Coup The National Assembly does not have the constitutional power to remove a president from Venezuela, nor does the opposition have the right to launch a recall with illegal signatures, says George Ciccariello-Maher October 28, 2016 |
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| Danny Glover on the Struggle for Democracy in Haiti In the lead up to the elections on October 9, actor and activist Danny Glover talks about the two US-backed coups in Haiti and why he's supporting Dr. Maryse Narcisse of the Fanmi Lavalas Party September 26, 2016 |
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| Massive Pro and Anti Government Demonstrations in Venezuela Massive opposition protests cannot change the fact that the National Electoral Council is under constitutional obligations that will prevent it from moving the recall referendum to this year, says journalist Jeanette Charles September 2, 2016 |
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| FARC Members Ready for Peace, But Tensions Remain While the final peace agreement between the FARC and the Colombian government must be ratified by a national referendum, prospects for ending almost 6 decades of civil war in a country with an extensive history of human rights violations and political crimes. September 1, 2016 |
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| Paramilitaries Pose Threat to FARC-Colombia Peace Deal The peace deal, which now heads to referendum, comes over more than a century of US intervention in the nation starting with breaking off Panama from Colombia, says labor and human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik August 26, 2016 |
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| Brazil Moving Towards Right-wing Foreign Policy The right wing interim Government which has no popular mandate is actively considering deeper engagement with the US and EU and breaking ranks with developing countries at the WTO, says economist Adhemar Mineiro - Newsclick and TRNN Joint Production August 24, 2016 |
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| Brazil: A State of Economic and Political Paralysis Under President Michel Temer, Brazil's economic and political paralysis has deepened. With the Dilma Rousseff impeachment vote at the Senate planned for after the 2016 Olympics, the situation is rife with alarming possibilities. - A Joint TRNN and Newsclick Production August 23, 2016 |
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| Afro-Colombians Place Hope in the Peace Process After over 50 years of civil war, the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas are closer than ever to signing a final peace deal which is supported by much of country's black and indigenous populations August 22, 2016 |
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| Castro's Legacy for Cuba, Latin America, and the World Fidel Castro died on Nov. 25, 2016. We replay a TRNN interview with Aviva Chomsky on the occasion of Fidel Castro's 90th birthday that discusses his impact on Cuba and the global revolutionary movement August 17, 2016 |
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| The Fairytale of Olympic 'Legacies' Jules Boykoff, author of Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics, says protest mobilizations have brought attention to the corruption and mis-spending around Rio's 'corporate sport party for the 1 percent' August 14, 2016 |
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| Summer 2016 Olympic Games in Rio Eclipsed By Controversy Dave Zirin, author of Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy, says it's the perfect opportunity for the anti-democratic forces in Brazil to market themselves as if they are the saviors of the country August 2, 2016 |
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| Argentina Represses TeleSUR and other "Undesirable Media" Pedro Brieger, journalist and professor at the University of Buenos Aires, says Argentinians view the government's dissociation from teleSUR as the loss of one of the only alternative voices for news in Latin America April 13, 2016 |
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| Brazil's President Faces Impeachment According to Professor Saad-Filho, President Rousseff is facing a coup in the form of an impeachment process and her chances of surviving it are not good March 27, 2016 |
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| Indigenous Rights Leader Assassinated in Honduras Jesse Freeston, the director of the documentary "Resistencia," tells us how Berta Caceres has become a martyr in the struggle against the Honduran post-coup regime and how the Obama administration bears responsibility for the current situation in Honduras. March 3, 2016 |
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| Is Mexico a Democracy? John Ackerman speaks about political violence, corruption, what has made democracy so dysfunctional, and how the Obama administration's policies towards Mexico are not helping. February 29, 2016 |
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| How the U.S. Fuels the Drug War in Mexico Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace, co-authors of "A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the 'Mexican Drug War,'" trace the history of the war on drugs from prohibition in the early 20th century to the militarization of police forces today January 28, 2016 |
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| Opposition Landslide in Venezuela - Maduro Accepts Results President Maduro accepts results, says counter-revolution has won; Opposition parties might win super-majority in National Assembly that could lead to removal of Maduro - Greg Wilpert and Alejandro Velasco with Paul Jay December 7, 2015 |
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| US Meddling in Venezuela's Elections National Lawyers Guild President Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan discusses the U.S. interests and the rhetoric of Hillary Clinton leading up to Venezuela's parliamentary elections December 5, 2015 |
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| Latin American Leaders Demand UN Reforms Journalist Andrea Ixchiu and Alex Main of the Center for Economic and Policy Research weigh in on the statements of the most outspoken leaders of Latin America and their call on larger nations to pay for the economic and environmental havoc unfolding across the world October 1, 2015 |
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| War Crimes and Land Reform in the Colombian Agreement with FARC Joshua Large, professor of international relations at the Universidad Eafit in Medellin, Colombia, the agreement was made possible because of the increasing weakness of FARC and neo-liberal economic interests of the Colombian government September 25, 2015 |
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| Daughter of The Revolution Carmen Aguirre, the Author of, Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, recalls the CIA lead coup d'etat against President Salvador Allende on 9/11, 1973 September 11, 2015 |
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| Estamos de Vuelta! The Cuban Embassy Reopens Lawrence Wilkerson, retired army colonel and former chief of staff for Colin Powell, discusses what he sees as positives and potential negatives in the new Cuban/North American relations July 21, 2015 |
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| Resistencia: Trailer Feature documentary from former Real News journalist, Jesse Freeston, on the plantation occupation movement that rose up in response to the 2009 coup d'etat in Honduras. June 28, 2015 |
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| How Big Business Fuels Haitian-Dominican Tensions With hundreds of descendants of Haitian migrants facing deportation, Haitian Lawyer Network's President Ezili Danto explains how Haitian and Dominican oligarchs exploit Haitian laborers and fuel xenophobia June 18, 2015 |
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| Cubans Press for Embargo to be Lifted Glen Ford: The Cuban economy can no longer survive without opening to U.S. markets, but Cubans are struggling to find policies that balance socialist ideals with capitalism. May 17, 2015 |
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| Lessons from the Summit of the Americas Mark Weisbrot, co-founder of CEPR, says the U.S. will realize that it won't be able to normalize relations with Cuba without first normalizing relations with the rest of the hemisphere April 14, 2015 |
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| Summit of the Americas: All Eyes on Cuba Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report talks about the implications of having Cuba at the table and the growing calls to lift sanctions on Venezuela April 10, 2015 |
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| What Happened to Haiti's Plan to 'Build Back Better'? Economist James Henry discusses how the Clintons and the international community backed the development of luxury hotels and textile factories in Haiti's capital while paying minimal attention to structural issues like rule of law and tax reform March 23, 2015 |
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| Who's Behind the Restoration of US-Cuba Relations? A Cuban-US caravan of academics, social movements and trade organizations were at the centre of negotiations leading to the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries, says Larry Wilkerson March 11, 2015 |
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| Venezuelan Gov. Releases Audio of Coup Plotters On Thursday, Venezuela officials released recordings of what it said was proof that opposition figures and some military officers were plotting to overthrow the government - Analysis with Miguel Tinker Salas and Paul Jay February 27, 2015 |
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| Bill O'Reilly May Have Covered-Up a Massacre Greg Grandin, columnist for The Nation, reports that Bill O'Reilly may have deliberately ignored the 1982 massacre of hundreds in El Mozote, El Salvador while reporting as a foreign correspondent for CBS Nightly News February 25, 2015 |
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| Cuba has Never Been Culturally Isolated, Just Shielded From the US The rich cultural life of Cuba thriving and democracy will not be exported to Cuba from the US, it is already working in the form of participatory democracy, says James Early of the Smithsonian Institute and Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center at CUNY. December 29, 2014 |
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| The Three Remaining 'Cuban 5' Go Home In a historic move bypassing congress, President Obama restores diplomatic
relations with Cuba, and in a simultaneous telecast President Raul Castro hails
the decision but reminds us that the blockade is still in place, says Michael
Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights December 17, 2014 |
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| A Second Mexican Revolution in the Works (2/2) Climate of impunity persists in Mexico and only 6.8 % of the 33 million crimes
committed in 2013 were ever investigated says John M. Ackerman, Professor
at the National Autonomous University of Mexico December 15, 2014 |
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| A Second Mexican Revolution in the Works The case of the 43 missing students has sparked a second revolution in
Mexico as
the discontent over current socio-economic conditions grows, says John M.
Ackerman, Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico December 2, 2014 |
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| Ecuador to Adopt Digital Currency Economist Bill Black says Ecuador's plan is supposed to provide bank services to rural communities through mobile phones September 5, 2014 |
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| Xavante's Song Hiparidi Top'Tiro Xavante says indigenous peoples of the Amazon are uniting to defend their way of life and protect the biodiversity of the "lungs of the world" August 25, 2014 |
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| The Forces behind Argentina's Default James Henry explains why Argentina has a U.S. court
deciding its financial fate and how this profits vulture capitalists like
Paul Singer July 31, 2014 |
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| Dave Zirin: Abolish FIFA Sports journalist Dave Zirin says bribery and corruption are endemic to
FIFA, and discusses what could take its place in the world of soccer June 17, 2014 |
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| Brazilian Workers Strike and Protest Runup to World Cup Throughout the month of May, Brazilian workers have been staging strikes throughout the country, causing major disruptions daily. In Salvador, a recent public transportation strike brought the city to a grinding halt for two days. On the eve of the World Cup, public outrage towards the government for its mismanaging public funds for the games is intensifying June 3, 2014 |
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| Why is Inflation So High in Venezuela? Gregory Wilpert (2/2): Attempting to build socialism surrounded by a global
capitalist economy and being reliant on oil revenues, Venezuela is
struggling to find a solution to capital flight and exchange rate problems February 23, 2014 |
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| Ecuadorian Tribesmen Killed in Army Raid In Ecuador, social and political conflict continues, amid a governmental and private push to exploit
mining resources, despite resistance from indigenous movements. November 10, 2013 |
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| Ecuador Approves Oil Drilling in Amazon Rain Forest On October 3rd 2013, Ecuador's National Assembly authorized the project to drill for
oil in the Yasuni National forest, which is a biosphere reserve and home of endemic
tribes and unique animal species. October 15, 2013 |
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| Brazil Agrobusiness Lobby Set to Appropriate Native Land and Timber Indigenous organizations protest in Brasilia, against the proposed
Constitutional Reform PEC 215 to put the fate of Amazonian Forests in the
hands of Congress; this motion was promoted by "Bancada Ruralista", the
Agribusiness' lobby many years ago and it is being discussed now. October 13, 2013 |
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| Brazil, Corruption and the Mass Movement As the Supreme Court of Brazil orders a retrial of convicted PT politicians,
Joao Pedro Stedile, Leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement,
says the mass movement must become capable of setting the political
agenda October 3, 2013 |
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| Big Oil Gets Green Light to Explore Ecuadorian Amazon Patrick Bond: Ecuador President Rafael Correa is a petro-Kenysian who failed to sell
Yasuni National Park in carbon markets and to international donors, and now he's
turned a blind eye to what's really needed August 27, 2013 |
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| Pope Seduced Brazil, Echoes the Right Pope Francis impressed Brazilians with his modest lifestyle and sympathy for the
poor, but he did not support the mass struggle for economic justice and instead
echoed the right-wing focus on corruption in government August 5, 2013 |
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| How the Media Got Guatemala's Dos Erres Massacre Wrong Keane Bhatt: NPR received a Peabody award for their piece on the 1982 massacre,
but they omit one important fact; the US directly sponsored the Guatemalan special
forces that brutally killed thousands of civilians August 1, 2013 |
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| Drug War Mexico, NAFTA and Why People Leave Peter Watt (author of Drug War Mexico): US policy and neo-liberal "reforms" helped create conditions for the growth of drug cartels and the impoverishment of millions February 4, 2013 |
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| Cuba Not Isolated in Latin America Alex Main: Cuba becomes president of Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries as even close American allies defy US policy of isolating Cuba February 4, 2013 |
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| Ecuador vs The Bankers President Correa passes legislation that raises taxes on financial sector to finance a "Human Development Bond" January 7, 2013 |
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| The Ecuadorian Mining Dilemma Ecuador needs revenues from mining in Amazon, but it will destroy nature and many indigenous people's way of life November 26, 2012 |
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| Chavez Wins After Massive Voter Turnout A Real News report from Caracas: Venezuelan opposition candidate
accepts election results that hand
Chavez a 10-point victory with more than 54% of the vote October 8, 2012 |
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| Colombian GM Workers on Hunger Strike Until Death Sew Their Mouths
Shut Thirteen auto workers in Bogotá, Colombia are completing their third week
of a hunger strike they say they won’t end until General Motors agrees to
negotiate with their demands.
(On Thursday, August 23 the strikers
announced that GM had agreed to negotiate. This story was produced in the
days prior to this agreement. The full statement from the strikers is included
beneath the video player.) August 22, 2012 |
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| True Cost of Chevron in Ecuador Robinson Yumbo, President of the National Indigenous Federation of the Cofan People on the multi-billion dollar woes of Chevron in Ecuador July 6, 2012 |
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| Mexicanos Piden Justicia Por Estudiantes Normalistas Asesinados Después del asesinato de dos estudiantes de la Escuela Normal Ayotzniapa, por la policia, durante una manifestacion el diciembre 2011 en el estado sureño de Guerrero, estudiantes Mexicanos han movilizado para pedir justicia y seguir exigiendo reformas educativas. February 15, 2012 |
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| Chile Rising Al Jazeera's Fault Lines follows Chile's student protest movement and examines the underlying issues driving the anger January 19, 2012 |
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| The Deadliest Place in the World for a Journalist Mini-documentary on the Honduran journalists that have watched 15 colleagues assassinated in 19 months under the Lobo regime, a government Barack Obama praises for its "strong commitment to democracy" October 8, 2011 |
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| La Policia de Honduras Arasa con un Pueblo Reportaje desde la comunidad campesina de Rigores en el valle Aguán, dondé un desalojo por parte de las autoridades deja a más de cien familias sin hogares July 31, 2011 |
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| Honduran Police Burn Community to the Ground Homes, churches, schools, and crops all destroyed as the post-coup government continues to side with wealthy plantation owners over the country's organized farmers July 31, 2011 |
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| SlutWalk Lands in Tegucigalpa Honduran capital's "Marcha de las Putas" becomes latest site for international movement against blaming victims for sexual violence June 19, 2011 |
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| Mexico's Lost Generation Al Jazeera: In Mexico, 35, 000 children under the age of 18, are estimated to have been recruited to work for drug gangs November 22, 2010 |
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| HAITI: SIX MONTHS ON Al Jazeera: Deep wounds that fracture Haiti are re-emerging, more gaping than even before July 14, 2010 |
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| Why does Cuba fear Miami? Cuba5 Pt2: City where terrorists walk free, the govt. pays journalists, and bad trials are good politics June 15, 2010 |
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| Bolivia's resource dilemma Government struggles with tension between extraction-based economy and global environmental leadership April 25, 2010 |
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| Clinton's Latin American tour Mark Weisbrot: Clinton tries to repair US image while urging recognition of controversial Honduran gov't March 13, 2010 |
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| Haiti and the 'Devil's Curse' Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention January 21, 2010 |
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| Haiti: Guns or food? Presence of US troops provides both hope of relief, and fear of continuing legacy of US domination January 17, 2010 |
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| Honduran Coup's economic basis Many say military coup was backed by the country's economic elite but hope elections improve situation November 30, 2009 |
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| Nothing resolved in Honduras Widely-celebrated, US-brokered agreement looks to have strengthened coup instead of reversing it November 4, 2009 |
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| Clock ticking in Honduras Giordano: A month before elections, coup regime that once sought to kill time is now running out of it October 29, 2009 |
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