Latin America

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	Brazil's Spiraling Corruption Scandal Deepens with Temer at the Centre A political earthquake hits Brazil again as the highly unpopular president Michel Temer is implicated in new corruption allegations and the calls for immediate elections grow stronger, reports Mike Fox from Brazil  May 19, 2017
Independence Leader Oscar Lopez Rivera is Freed as Puerto Rico Faces 'Colonial' Debt Juan Gonzalez, a journalist, author, and Democracy Now! co-host, analyzes the release of Puerto Rican independence leader Oscar Lopez Rivera, which comes as Puerto Rico enters a critical bankruptcy process and prepares to hold a referendum on its political future.  May 18, 2017	Puerto Rico Debt Crisis: 'A Great Depression That Doesn't End' Journalist, author, and Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez says the Puerto Rican debt crisis, now entering a critical bankruptcy phase, results from a legacy of U.S. colonial domination and predatory Wall Street debt  May 18, 2017
Supporters Rally for Brazil's Former President Lula as he Testifies in Corruption Case Mike Fox reports from Curitiba, Brazil, where former president Lula da Silva defended himself in court against corruption allegations for the first time  May 11, 2017	Venezuelan Government's Call for a Constitutional Assembly is a "Mixed Bag" Steve Ellner considers the government's call for a constitutional assembly a positive step for breaking the political deadlock, but it still won't solve the country's most pressing problems  May 12, 2017
Assassination of 41 Activists in Colombia Threatens Peace Process The Colombian government's peace agreement with the FARC rebels requires the government to protect activists and former FARC fighters, but their government is not living up to this requirement, says Prof. Mario Murillo  May 10, 2017	Most of Brazil Paralyzed as Unions Implement One-Day General Strike The strike is in response to draconian labor and pension reforms that the government of President Temer is trying to push through as rapidly as possible explains Mike Fox from Brazil  April 29, 2017
Massive Pro and Anti Government Protests in Venezuela While international media focused almost exclusively on the opposition protests and clashes with the police, the pro-government protests were equally as large, says Lucas Koerner from Venezuelanalysis  April 21, 2017	Brazil's Corruption Investigation Expands to Almost Entire Political Class The corruption investigation of Brazilian politicians expanded dramatically and is less biased against the center-left. However, the danger is that it will lead to de-politicization and opportunistic anti-politics explains Brazil analyst Alex Hochuli  April 19, 2017
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	Venezuelans Hold Demonstrations For and Against OAS Effort to Isolate Venezuela Efforts to invoke the OAS Democratic Charter against Venezuela would only lead to more confrontation in Venezuela says Steve Ellner  April 7, 2017
El Salvador Passes Historic Ban on Metal Mining The Central American country is the first country in the world to establish a blanket ban on metal mining, protecting the environment following a 12-year political struggle  April 18, 2017	Defeated Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Refuses to Concede Guillermo Lasso, the conservative who lost Ecuador's presidential vote, is aiming to delegitimize the leftist winner, Lenin Moreno, before he takes office says TRNN's Greg Wilpert  April 6, 2017
Ecuadorians say Lenin Moreno's Victory is a Win for Poor and Working People In an exclusive report, TRNN correspondent Kimberley Brown speaks to voters who gave Lenin Moreno a narrow victory over right wing candidate Guillermo Lasso  April 3, 2017	International Outrage Over Venezuelan Supreme Court Decision Venezuela's Supreme Court ratified a decision to invalidate the legislature, causing many to call the government a dictatorship. However, this move actually was the result of an opposition trap, says TRNN's Gregory Wilpert  April 1, 2017
Brazil's Tainted Meat Scandal Exposes Another Corruption Scheme While corruption scandals proliferate, Brazilians take to the streets to oppose new austerity measures imposed by President Temer, says Mike Fox from Brazil  March 31, 2017	Were Haitian Police Behind Assassination Attempt on Aristide? Jeb Sprague-Silgado says the firing on the former president's motorcade took place in the context of mass voter disenfranchisement and an attempt to rearrange the country politically away from left forces  March 24, 2017
Honduran Activist Berta Caceres Stood Up Against Racism, Patriarchy, and Capitalism Filmmaker Jesse Freeston marks the first anniversary of the assassination of Berta Caceres, an outspoken critic of US imperialism and environmental activist  March 2, 2017	Will Social Democracy Prevail in Mexico's 2018 Election? Andres Manuel Lopez Abradore and the Morena party could revive left-wing politics in Latin America, says National Autonomous University of Mexico's John Ackerman  February 26, 2017
Argentina's President Macri Faces Increasing Scandals and Resistance to His Return to Neoliberalism The political panorama for Argentina's conservative government looks increasingly difficult according to Prof. Atilio Boron  February 23, 2017	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
Ecuador's Presidential Election is the "Stalingrad" of Latin America's Left The outcome of the presidential election in Ecuador will determine the future of Latin America's left, argues political science Prof. Atilio Boron  February 19, 2017	Will Correa's Party Survive Ecuador's General Elections? President Rafael Correa has not built a movement in Ecuador capable of mobilizing in support of his chosen successor and current vice president Lenin Moreno, says TRNN correspondent Greg Wilpert  February 7, 2017
Brazil's Corrupt Politicians, Media and the Courts in Cahoots Officials close to President Temer could face indictment in the Car Wash Scandal, says Joao Feres Jr.  February 2, 2017	Brazilian Judge Presiding Over Car Wash Investigations Dies in Plane Crash Plane crash occurred just as the judge was about to accept the testimonies of Odebrecht employees, says Joao Feres Jr.  February 2, 2017
Mexican President Faces Crisis of Legitimacy Following Trump Feud The end of NAFTA and the building of a wall along with a resurgent left movement in Mexico gives an opportunity for the nation to turn away from the neoliberal fantasy of North American integration, says Professor John Ackerman  January 27, 2017	Oscar Lopez Rivera to Be Freed After 36 Years in US Prison Puerto Rico's independence leader and longest held political prisoner in the U.S. from Latin America will be free.  January 19, 2017
Mexican Gov. Faces Crisis of Legitimacy After Consumption Tax on Oil Catalyzes Popular Protests Deep disdain for President Enrique Pina Nieto has opened up the possibility of an electoral victory for the left, says Professor John Ackerman  January 8, 2017	Jovenel Moise Awarded Haitian Presidency as Opposition Parties Allege Massive Election Fraud Haiti's electoral council limited access to the voter tally sheets as the opposition began uncovering fraud, says radio host Margaret Prescod  January 6, 2017
Latin America in 2016: The Resurgence of the Right Continues (2/2) The second part of our look at how governments shifted to the right in Latin America in 2016, imposing neoliberal economics in amidst high dissatisfaction with government  January 2, 2017	Latin America in 2016: The Resurgence of the Right Continues (1/2) In Part one, we look at how in Brazil, Peru, and Argentina, governments shifted to the right in Latin America in 2016, imposing neoliberal economics in a context of high dissatisfaction with government  December 31, 2016
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	An Interview with a Leader from Brazil's Landless Workers Movement MST's Gilmar Mauro on the struggle to build a mass organization as an alternative to fascism amidst Brazil's ongoing political crisis  December 27, 2016
Secret Mexican Government Report on Missing Students Shows Official Cover-up The Unreleased Attorney General's report about the investigation of 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa implicates the investigators, says journalist Anabel Hernandez  December 20, 2016	Brazilian President Temer Signs Constitutional Amendment Imposing 20 Years of Austerity Rousseff was ousted to shift economic policy towards neoliberalism, and now Temer is rewarding the banks and financial investors for backing the legislative coup, says SOAS Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho  December 15, 2016
President of Brazil's Senate Renan Calheiros Joins the Ranks of Corruption Riddled Political Leaders Leaders that carried out the legislative coup against Dilma Rousseff, embroiled in corruption scandals are systematically destroying political institutions and social progress in Brazil says Journalist Shobhan Saxena  December 11, 2016	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
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	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
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	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
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	Amnesty For FARC Rebels and Land Restitution Will Determine Fate of Colombian Peace Process Political repression and right-wing media discouraged many people from voting in the referendum, says TRNN's Greg Wilpert  October 26, 2016
President Maduro Calls on the Pope to Help Resolve Conflict with Opposition The government is struggling to provide basic needs for its people due to an informal banking embargo centered around the United States, says Lucas Koerner of Venezuelanalysis  October 25, 2016	For Indigenous Lenca People in Honduras, Rebellion Is a Centuries-Old Story The assassination of one of the world's most celebrated activists earlier this year is a reminder that indigenous peoples in Honduras and other parts of Latin America face the same sort of plutocracy they faced hundreds of years ago  October 17, 2016
Eddie Conway Interviews Brazilian Youth Militants While visiting Brazil, TRNN's executive producer spoke to members of several socialist organizations as they congregated for their annual movement building retreat in Brazil.  October 17, 2016	Haitian Activist Speaks Out Against Killing of Fellow Activist David Oxygene discusses the perils of organizing in Haiti (This interview took place prior to the disaster wrought by Hurricane Matthew)  October 15, 2016
How the Red Cross, UN, and Foreign Governments Made Haiti More Vulnerable to Hurricane Matthew Interventions, an ongoing cholera epidemic, and the devastating 2010 earthquake left much of the country in a condition that's made the disaster worse  October 7, 2016	Does Colombian President Santos Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? The prize is important because it can help overcome the referendum vote against the peace agreement, says Cristin Espinel of the Colombian Human Rights Committee  October 7, 2016
Discontent Over Amnesty May Have Helped Defeat Colombia-FARC Peace Deal Rural and urban voters were divided over support for the accord, says human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik  October 3, 2016	Colombian Right Gains Upper Hand Following Defeat of FARC Peace Deal Underlying the referendum defeat is the possibility that conflict could escalate with illegal armed groups in the countryside, says professor Mario Murillo  October 4, 2016
Danny Glover: Upcoming Haitian Election an Opportunity for Self-Determination The actor and activist discusses who he is supporting and what's at stake for the Haitian people  September 28, 2016	Mexicans Protest on Second Anniversary of Disappearance of 43 Students The government continues to drag its feet in resolving the case of missing 43 Ayotzinapa students, says Laura Carlsen  September 28, 2016
Brazil's Social Movements Planning General Strike for November The Landless Workers' Movement (MST) and others are ramping up opposition to the coup government, says the MST's Ana Moraes  October 16, 2016	Ecuador Proposes Worldwide Elimination of Tax Havens Tax havens do enormous damage to economies around the world, explains Ecuador's foreign minister Guillaume Long  September 26, 2016
Recall Referendum on Maduro Moves to Next Phase in spite of "Irregularities" Venezuelans are hoping for the political process to follow the constitution, says Jeanette Charles of Venezuela Analysis  September 25, 2016	MST Occupies Government Building in Salvador, Bahia TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with MST activists about the political and economic crisis in Brazil  September 22, 2016
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	New Brazilian Government Introducing 'Shock Doctrine' Against Social Programs With the most corrupt people are now running the country, the case against former President Lula might proceed with success, says journalist Shobhan Saxena  September 16, 2016
Brazil's New President Presents Neoliberal Economic Plan President Temer's economic plan represents a deepening of neoliberal economic policies that Rousseff had already begun and will not improve the economic situation, says Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho  September 15, 2016	Bolivian President Clamps Down on Cooperative Mining Sector Following Conflict Negotiations between government and mining cooperatives are unlikely after the murder of a vice-minister during a confrontation miners, says Kathryn Ledebur  September 8, 2016
Over a Million People on The Street Demanding New Elections in Brazil President Michel Temer has just succeeded in carrying out a coup against Dilma Rousseff, but we are unlikely to see him concede to public pressure, says Alex Main of the Center for Economic Policy Research  September 7, 2016	US Shows Support for New Brazilian Gov., But Did It Play a Role in Rousseff's Ouster? CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot also discusses how mainstream reporting is reinforcing the false promises of austerity for Brazil  September 2, 2016
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	President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, New Government to Pursue Right-Wing Agenda This is a moment of triumph for those who used the government to shield themselves from very serious corruption charges, revealing the failure of Brazil's so-called democratic institutions, says Harvard University professor Sidney Chalhoub  August 31, 2016
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	Bolivian Government Efforts to Strengthen Mining Regulations Sets Off Conflict With Miners This latest round of conflict including the death of Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes is over a new mining law that would restrict the ability of cooperative miners to sign contracts with international or private interests, explains Andean Information Network Director Kathryn Ledebur  August 31, 2016
Brazil's Defiant Rousseff Takes the Stand, But Will Democracy Survive? The Brazilian oligarchy is on the cusp of achieving its major objectives through the parliamentary coup says James Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University  August 30, 2016	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
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	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
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	UN Admits Role in Haiti's Cholera Outbreak After Years of Denial A lawyer representing the victims says there needs to be continued pressure on the UN to ensure the safety of the host communities where its missions are deployed  August 19, 2016
Mexican Teachers Set to Strike On First Day of School Over Neoliberal Education Reform Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas program at the Center for International Policy in Mexico City, says the families of the 43 disappeared students joined teachers in protest of the legislation  August 17, 2016	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
Venezuelan Opposition Unlikely To Secure Recall Referendum Before Year's End Steve Ellner: The image of Venezuela as an oppressive failed state is really very far from what's happening on the ground.  August 14, 2016	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
Brazil's PT Failed to Disengage from Corrupt Elements of Its Political Class Alex Cuadros, author of Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, says the PT, under the leadership of Lula and Rousseff, has failed to disrupt corporate influence over politics  August 3, 2016	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
No Case Against Suspended President of Brazil But Rousseff May Still be Impeached Professor of Media Studies Joao Feres Jr. says a recent report exonerates Rousseff but the constitutional procedure will likely be used to remove her from office anyway.  July 15, 2016	Brazilian Artists Speak Out Against "Coup" Government In a nation-wide occupation movement, artists in Brazil fight the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and lead a protest against newly instated right-wing government  June 30, 2016
Media Exaggerations of Apocalyptic Venezuela Plays into Regime Change Narrative Gabriel Hetland & Rachael Boothroyd say that the crisis in Venezuela is real, but the international media descriptions of horror stories are far from representative of the real situation on the ground  July 1, 2016	Resurgence in Left Politics in Mexico Following Oaxaca Teachers Strike Massacre Law professor John Ackerman says the Morena Party is trying to mobilize social movements into a political force that has already brought hundreds of thousands to the streets  June 29, 2016
Commentary: Oaxaca Teachers Strike Is About Defending The Revolutionary Educational Tradition John Ackerman of UNAD says that acts of state violence, like the police killings at the Oaxaca teacher strike and the "disappearance" of 43 students Guerrero, show that Mexico is not a democracy  June 24, 2016	Historic Ceasefire Agreement Signed in Colombia The peace agreement between the FARC rebels and the Colombian government is a major achievement, but will take a while to implement and sustain, says Professor Justin Podur  June 24, 2016
Naomi Klein on the Ousting of President Rousseff At the People's Summit in Chicago, Naomi Klein tells Paul Jay that the suspension of Dilma Rousseff's presidency in Brazil should be called a coup  June 21, 2016	Nine Killed in Police Crackdown on Oaxaca Teacher's Strike Laura Carlsen of the Center for International Policy says that Oaxacan teachers are protesting not only teacher evaluations, but also the entirety of neoliberal reform under Pena Nieto  June 21, 2016
Peru's New Conservative President A Close Ally of the US Peru's left succeeded in averting an even worse disaster by helping defeat far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori, says Peruvian sociologist Francesca Emanuele  June 15, 2016	Venezuela Takes Next Step Toward Presidential Recall Referendum While Venezuela's national electoral council moves forward with referendum process, President Maduro introduces new measures to address economic problems  June 10, 2016
Clinton Fuelled a Crisis in Haiti: Why Is Nobody Talking About It? Hillary Clinton is to blame for Martelly's disastrous presidency, says Nikolas Barry-Shaw of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti  June 3, 2016	Is There an Economic and Political War Against Venezuela? Floating exchange rate and rising oil prices will go a long way to stabilize the Venezuelan economy, but other economic reforms are also necessary, says CEPR economist Mark Weisbrot  June 2, 2016
Tapes Reveal Coup Plot Against Rousseff, Weakening Temer Government Media Professor Joao Feres Jr. says that the Temer government, judiciary and the opposition media are all collaborating against the PT as evidence of the conspiracy is revealed  May 26, 2016	Brazil Gets An Unelectable President Amid Protests Boaventura de Sousa Santos says Brazilians should prepare for "shock therapy" under new president Michel Temer and his cabinet  May 16, 2016
The Resurrection of a Honduran Journalist Days after suffering a double attempt on his life, Felix Molina gets back to work covering the case of slain indigenous leader Berta Caceres  May 13, 2016	New President of Brazil Moves to Appease Foreign Investors Prof. Alfredo Saad Filho analyzes the economic implications of the new government of Brazil, following Rousseff's removal from office  May 13, 2016
Dilma Rousseff Removed from Office As Impeachment Proceedings Continue Brazil's senate votes 55-22 to impeach President Dilma Rousseff; Gregory Wilpert says interim president Michel Temer could begin implementing neoliberal policies immediately  May 12, 2016	Brazil's Congress Halts Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff Speaker of the lower house of Congress cites break in procedural rules as reason for annulment of impeachment vote; Dilma Rousseff still not in the clear  May 9, 2016
Venezuelan Opposition Activates Recall on Maduro's Presidency Steve Ellner says deep discontent across the political spectrum in Venezuela is creating a political vacuum  May 6, 2016	Four Men Arrested for the Murder of Berta Caceres Grahame Russell of Rights Action Canada says there are too many serious irregularities with the investigation to trust it  May 4, 2016
"Soft Coup" in Brazil is Destroying the Workers' Party and Social Programs Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report says Brazil's whole political system is corrupt and on the verge of collapse, not just the Presidency of Dilma Rousseff  May 2, 2016	US Ignores Disappearances in Mexico to Maintain Financial and Military Presence The Merida Initiative is not about drug trafficking but in fact about allowing US intervention for the benefit of transnational capital, says Dawn Paley, author of Drug War Capitalism  May 11, 17
Brazilian Senate to Vote on President Rousseff's Impeachment Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos looks at why Rousseff's impeachment is a highly political process and not a legal one and how this "legislative coup" can be compared to others in recent Latin American history  April 27, 2016	Glenn Greenwald: President's Impeachment Process in Brazil is a Trojan Horse for Neo-liberalism The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald says that President Dilma Rousseff's Vice President and would-be successor, Michel Temer, is a corrupt politician who would take the country on a sharp neoliberal turn  May 5, 2016
Brazil's Impeachment Vote a Political Trial to Subvert Democracy If President Dilma Rousseff is successfully impeached it will shake confidence in the entire Brazilian democratic system, says Maria Mendonca of the University of Rio de Janeiro  April 19, 2016	Repression Against Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil Joaquin Pinero of the MST talks about the latest round of repression against the movement and how it is connected to the current political crisis in Brazil.  April 19, 2016
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	Anything Can Happen in Peru's Presidential Election Prof. Gerardo Renique talks about the candidates and how the far right and left both have a genuine chance of winning in Sunday's election  April 8, 2016
Brazil's Legal Order as the Source of Political Disorder Boaventura de Sousa Santos analyzes the state of Brazil's political and legal system  April 5, 2016	Leaked Report Reveals Unsanitary Conditions At UN Bases During Haitian Cholera Epidemic The United States is actively discouraging countries from holding the UN accountable for bringing cholera to Haiti, says Brian Concannon, Executive Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti  April 6, 2016
Colombian GM Workers Engaged in 5-Year Long Protest Frank Hammer, a retired GM worker from Detroit and labor activist, reports on his visit with GM workers in Colombia and their 5-year protest at the US embassy  April 11, 2016	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
Obama Arrives in Argentina Amid Protests Against his Visit Argentine social movements protest Obama's visit on the 40th anniversary of a US-supported coup, as well as his praise for the new neoliberal President  March 24, 2016	Cuban Activists Say Telecommunications Infrastructure Must Stay In Cuban Hands Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Sociology at Queens College, discusses how Cuban advocates for greater internet connectivity are not willing to open the country to U.S. corporations in exchange for internet access  March 17, 2016
Lula Joins President's Cabinet in Brazil, Avoiding Arrest Joao Feres, Jr. talks about the protests, corruption, and a possible new direction for a Rousseff-Silva government in Brazil  March 17, 2016	New and Old Strategies for Ending the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela Prof. Steve Ellner discusses US intervention in Venezuela, the opposition's amnesty law, and their latest strategies for ousting the president.  March 12, 2016
New and Old Strategies for Ending the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela Prof. Steve Ellner discusses US intervention in Venezuela, the opposition's amnesty law, and their latest strategies for ousting the president.  March 12, 2016	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
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	Argentina's Presidential Giveaway to Vulture Funds James S. Henry analyzes the new conservative Argentine president's economic policies and his effort to appease "vulture" funds.  February 26, 2016
Brazil's Embattled Government Faces Yet More Challenges With yet another corruption scandal unraveling near President Rousseff and more bad economic news, Alfredo Saad Filho examines the prospects of Brazil's PT government.  February 28, 2016	Bolivian Referendum on Morales Term Limit Extension on Sunday Kathryn Ledebur of the Andean Information Network discusses the background and implications of the Feb. 21 referendum in Bolivia.  February 20, 2016
Honduran Protesters Continue to Demand Resignation of President Hernandez Alexander Main of CEPR says protesters are also demanding a United Nations-backed commission like the one that forced the resignation of President Molina in Guatemala  February 19, 2016	Haiti's New Interim President has Close Ties to Business Elite CUNY's Francois Pierre-Louis and Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford discuss how protesters forced former President Michel Martelly to step down, but the people could lose in the struggle for free and fair elections  February 15, 2016
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	After Haiti Elections Postponed, Is the U.S. Rushing to Protect Clinton? After massive protests and reports of election fraud, the U.S. continued to push for a presidential election runoff, but former OAS Haiti mission head says the US is protecting candidate Clinton's record  January 26, 2016
El Chapo Arrest Won't Change Narco-Governance in Mexico John Mill Ackerman says the real problem facing the rule of law in Mexico is Obama's blind support for the Nieto government  January 13, 2016	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
Why America Remains Silent As Haitians Decry Fraud in National Election Several reports find rampant fraud despite official results placing Martelly's party in the next round of presidential elections.  December 5, 2015	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
Historic Win for the Right in Argentina's National Election Maria Esperanza Casullo says, although Mauricio Macri carefully distanced himself from neoliberal economic policies, he won votes from both the richest and poorest Argentinians  November 23, 2015	Fraud Allegations Fly as Haitian Presidential Election Heads to Runoff As Haiti's two leading presidential candidates head to a runoff, Queens College's Francois Pierre-Louis and CEPR's Jake Johnston discuss the lack of violence and implications of the international community's backing of the election results  November 6, 2015
Clinton Emails Reveal Foreign Meddling in Last Haitian Presidential Election As Haitians vote for their next president, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network Ezili Danto and IJDH attorney Nicole Phillips discuss the past and present influence of the international community in election results  October 24, 2015	Clinton Emails Reveal Foreign Meddling in Last Haitian Presidential Election As Haitians vote for their next president, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network Ezili Danto and IJDH attorney Nicole Phillips discuss the past and present influence of the international community in election results  October 24, 2015
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	Parents Stage Hunger Strike to Demand Answers One Year After Disappearance of 43 Mexican Students TRNN speaks with student activists in Mexico about the findings unveiled by the experts commission on the disappearances  September 25, 2015
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	Koch Brothers' Funds Support Anti-Dilma Protests in Brazil Author Michael Fox discusses the Koch's motivations and how the Workers' Party is attempting to regain its footing  September 14, 2015
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	Guatemala's Presidential Elections: A Choice Between Elite Interests Journalist Andrea Ixchiu discusses the neoliberal agenda of the three leading candidates and why the United States pushed for an election only days after the former president's resignation  September 9, 2015
Supreme Court of Canada Ruling Says Ecuadorean Villages Can Sue Chevron Paul Paz y Mino of Amazon Watch and Dimitri Lascaris, Green Party Candidate for London West, Ontario, discuss the decision of an Ontario court to allow the case to go forward  September 9, 2015	Guatemalan President Molina Arrested After Resignation Journalist Andrea Ixchiu describes the massive protests and legal case that led to the resignation and arrest of President Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala.  September 4, 2015
Court Rules Argentina Creditors Can't Seize Its Central Bank Former bank regulator Bill Black discusses the significance of a U.S. court ruling regarding Argentina's debt.  September 3, 2015	Clinton Emails and the Privatization of Mexico's State Owned Oil and Gas Company (2/2) Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog.org discusses Hilary Clinton's role in breaking up the state-owned oil and gas company Pemex as well as her climate track record in the context of her State Department tenure  August 17, 2015
Kerry in Havana Restoring the US Embassy It is a historic retreat by US imperialism and an attempt to disrupt the Cuban revolutionary process says historian and author Gerald Horne  August 14, 2015	Multiple Scandals in Haiti Expose Weakness of Current Development Model TRNN's Jessica Desvarieux explores the root cause of the scandals involving USAID and the American Red Cross, and looks at whether there is a way to get donations directly to local communities with accountability.  August 14, 2015
Clinton Emails and the Privatization of Mexico's State Owned Oil and Gas Company (1/2) Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog.org says the emails confirm that Clinton's State had a role in breaking up the state-owned oil and gas company, Pemex, paving the way for international oil to wreak the benefits of off shore drilling  August 13, 2015	Despite Violence, Low Voter Turnout Int'l Community Calls Haitian Elections Good Enough Joining us from Haiti, CUNY's Francois Pierre-Louis and CEPR's Jake Johnston discuss why average Haitians are disillusioned with the electoral process and the international forces invested in its results  August 11, 2015
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	Puerto Rico's Debt Is Not Financial, It's Colonial: The Political Imprisonment of Oscar Lopez Rivera Vicente "Panama" Alba joined us from Puerto Rico to discuss the political imprisonment and repression of Puerto Rican Nationalists  July 3, 2015
Puerto Rico on the Brink of Financial Collapse Economist James Henry breakdowns the hedge funds, bond holders, and wealthy individuals who have benefited from Puerto Rico's triple tax exempt status  July 2, 2015	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
The Global African: Extreme Xenophobia in the Dominican Republic The Global African takes a look at the prejudice currently in the Dominican Republic, the history of segregation in public spaces, and a special comment on the Charleston shooting.  June 27, 2015	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
UN Peacekeepers in Haiti Force Girls to Trade Sex for Food, Medicine IJDH executive director Brian Concannon and Code Blue co-founder Paula Donovan discuss the lack of accountability within the UN and the reforms needed for victims seeking justice  June 11, 2015	GAO Report Finds USAID's Haiti Projects "Unsustainable" CUNY Assoc. Prof. Francois Pierre-Louis and CEPR researcher Jake Johnston explain key findings in a report and the American development agency's creation of a shadow government in Haiti  June 8, 2015
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	Brazil Analysis: Upper Middle Class Demonstrations Against President Dilma Rousseff (2/2) Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho of SOAS, University of London says at the heart of the problem is corruption that has plagued the country for over 500 years. The financing of elections is another major issue.  April 27, 2015
Brazil Analysis: Upper Middle Class Demonstrations Against President Dilma Rousseff (1/2) Prof. Alfredo Saad-Filho of SOAS, University of London says that the demonstrators along with several right wing parties are demanding the return of their privileges  April 26, 2015	Eduardo Galeano Ruptured the Veins of Imperialism in Latin America Mark Fried, Galeano's long-time collaborator and translator, gives us an inside look at the poet and his verse  April 19, 2015
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	The Global African: The Summit of the Americas & Reparations Conference In this episode of teleSUR's The Global African, host Bill Fletcher examines the upcoming Summit of The Americas, recent Nigerian elections, and a conference on reparations.  April 10, 2015
Summit of the Americas: U.S. Agenda is to Push TPP to Split Latin American Integration Miguel Tinker Salas say the new U.S. agenda is an old one, a free trade agreement; this time it's the Trans-Pacific Partnership, many call NAFTA on steroids  April 10, 2015	Summit of the Americas: U.S. Hopes to Regain Control of the Political Process Alex Main says the U.S. prefers a capitalist democracy to dictatorships, as long as it can control the outcome of elections  April 9, 2015
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Criticizes Solidarity of Latin American Countries for Venezuela Miguel Tinker-Salas says the U.S. plan to destabilize and isolate Venezuela has backfired as most Latin American states resent the interference and threats against Venezuela  April 9, 2015	The Summit of the Americas in the Context of US Imperialism Scholar and activist Gerald Horne traces modern-day US foreign policy in Latin America to its colonial roots  April 10, 2015
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	Senate Tackles Root Causes of Central American Migration, But Ignores Trade Deals The Senate Homeland Security Committee said that crime is driving the recent uptick in immigration to the U.S., while ignoring the effects sweeping trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA  April 2, 2015
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	Chile's Growing Corruption Scandal Underscores Need for Whistleblower Protections Former financial regulator Bill Black reports on a corruption scandal embroiling Chile's conservative party and business executives  March 16, 2015
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	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
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	Opposition Leaders Issued a Statement to Signal the Launch of the Foiled Coup Lucas Koerner, journalist in Caracas for Venezuelanalysis.com discusses what he knows thus far about the foiled coup in Venezuela  February 17, 2015
Haiti 5 Years After Devastating Earthquake TRNN's Jessica Desvarieux reviews Haiti's most significant moments in 2014 and looks at how the country is recovering from the 2010 earthquake  January 12, 2015	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
Diplomatic Relations with Cuba and Sanctions for Venezuela Last week's much-hailed normalization of relations with Cuba was followed by sanctions against Venezuela the very next day, says Alex Main of the Center for Economic and Policy Research  December 23, 2014	Diplomatic Relations with Cuba and Sanctions for Venezuela The much-hailed normalization of relations with Cuba was followed by sanctions against Venezuela the very next day, says Alex Main of the Center for Economic Policy Research  December 19, 2014
The US and Cuba Restore Diplomatic Relations With A Spy Swap The US has finally admitted defeat in its policies of trying to isolate and overthrow the government of Cuba says, Reese Erlich a freelance journalist and author  December 17, 2014	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
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	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
Tens of Thousands March to End Impunity for the Mexican Narco-State Prof. John Ackerman argues that outrage over the 43 recently disappeared college students has the potential to unite social forces to challenge the US-backed Mexican narco-state  November 11, 2014	After Re-election, Rousseff Faces A Conservative Congress in Brazil Michael Fox of teleSUR says Dilma's campaign was won by building on Lula's legacy of social inclusion and supporting political reform  October 27, 2014
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	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
Protecting the Amazon Includes Defending Indigenous Rights 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	Argentina Sues U.S. in World Court to Stop Vulture Fund Billionaire Greg Palast: President Obama has failed to exercise his authority to stop a New York judge from ordering Argentina to pay  August 8, 2014
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	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
U.S. Supreme Court Preserves Power of Finance Over Argentina Bill Black reports on the significance of the refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to hear cases involving Argentinian debt obligations to international creditors  June 16, 2014	Child Detainees Victims of US Immigration Policy Based On Mass Incarceration & Detention As the harsh conditions faced by children in overcrowded immigration detention centers dominate headlines, The Real News looks at the policy that created these conditions  June 15, 2014
Protesters Clash with Police in Brazil - Dave Zirin on World Cup 2014 (1/2) Dave Zirin, author of "Dancing with The Devil", on why Brazilian protesters are fighting against the sport they love  June 12, 2014	Brazilian Military Deployed, Civil Unrest Intensifies Two Days Before World Cup The Brazilian government deploys more than 200,000 troops after workers across sectors continue to strike. Amnesty International warns the Brazilian government's response to protests and strikes could lead to indiscriminate violence.  June 9, 2014
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	Corpos enchem o necroterio durante a greve da Policia Militar Corpos enchem o necroterio durante a greve da Policia Militar  April 30, 2014
TRNN Original Report: Brazilian Police on Strike Abandon Salvador Streets As the City's Death Toll Rises More than 150 people have been killed throughout Brazil's northeast state Bahia, after police go on strike demanding higher pay - a move that's viewed as quite political ahead of elections  April 25, 2014	The Modern History of Venezuela and Popular Democracy - Edgardo Lander on RAI (9/9) On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Lander assesses Chavez's attempt to establish a participatory democracy that changed the structure of power and decision making  April 23, 2014
The Modern History of Venezuela, The Protests and Democracy - Edgardo Lander on RAI (8/9) On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Lander says while there are problems with the democratic process in Venezuela, the current protests are anti-democratic attempts to bring down an elected government  April 22, 2014	The Modern History of Venezuela, Why Still So Much Crime? - Edgardo Lander on Reality Asserts Itself (7/9) On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Lander analyzes why the Chavez and Maduro governments have so far been unable to reduce the high rates of murder and violent crime  April 18, 2014
The Modern History of Venezuela and the Need for a Post-Oil Economy - Edgardo Lander on RAI (6/9) On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Lander says to strengthen democracy, develop food sovereignty and help save the planet, Venezuela must develop a plan to transition away from an extractive economy  April 17, 2014	The Modern History of Venezuela: The Bolivarian Revolution - Edgardo Lander on Reality Asserts Itself (5/9) Mr. Lander discusses the achievements and failures of the revolution led by President Hugo Chavez  April 16, 2014
One Percent of Environmentalists Killings Lead to Convictions Global Witness report co-author Oliver Courtney discusses the alarming number of murders in South America and how governments and corporations work in unison to subvert indigenous rights  April 15, 2014	The Modern History of Venezuela from 1973 to the Caracazo Massacre - Edgardo Lander on Reality Asserts Itself (3/9) Mr. Lander traces the history of Venezuela from the rise of neo-liberal capitalism to the suppression and slaughter of protesters against it  April 15, 2014
The Modern History of Venezuela from 1908 to 1973 - Edgardo Lander on Reality Asserts Itself (2/9) Mr. Lander traces the history of Venezuela from dictatorship to attempts at democratic governments and back  April 14, 2014	The Beginning of the Chavez Era - Edgardo Lander on Reality Asserts Itself (4/9) Mr. Lander, with host Paul Jay, traces the events that set the stage for the Bolivarian Revolution and the Chavez era of Venezuela  April 11, 2014
From Exile to Radicalization in Venezuela - Edgardo Lander on Reality Asserts Itself (1/9) Mr. Lander tells Paul Jay that in '98, when he saw the whole of the establishment getting together to defeat Chavez, he voted for him even though he had a lot of reasons not to like him  April 10, 2014	How the Ecuadorian Economy Grew in a Global Recession Economist Bill Black discusses how the investment in education, healthcare, and infrastructure fueled Ecuador's economic "miracle"  March 24, 2014
Puerto Rican Independence Movement and Cuba Further Radicalized Me - Michael Ratner on RAI (5/7) Mr. Ratner tells Paul Jay that in the 70's, the thrust for a more radical movement in New York was led by the fight for Puerto Rican independence  March 11, 2014	Venezuela One Year After Chavez's Passing Latin American studies professor Miguel Tinker Salas and journalist Ewan Robertson discuss the presidency of Hugo Chavez  March 5, 2014
Venezuela Anti-Government Protests Lack Support from the Barrios Lisa Sullivan & Ryan Mallett-Outtrim report from Venezuela that the country's anti government protests are continuing with no end in sight but continue to lack appeal in low income neighborhoods  March 4, 2014	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
Venezuela Protests Reveal Rivalry in Opposition Leadership Gregory Wilpert (1/2): High inflation and shortages trigger a protest movement that splits opposition camp  February 22, 2014	Venezuelan Opposition Divided On Question of Regime Change Steve Ellner: As both sides continue to mobilize supporters, class divisions within Caracas will limit the opposition's ability to oust the Maduro regime  February 19, 2014
'Tres Amigos' Mexico Summit Advancing Neoliberal Reforms John Ackerman and Jeff Faux discuss how the meeting between the heads of Canada, Mexico and the United States will advance policies that increase inequality and fuel drug-related violence in Mexico  February 18, 2014	US Backing the Destabilization of Venezuela Keane Bhatt: Elite forces in Venezuela and the US are determined to undermine the accomplishments of the Bolivarian revolution  February 18, 2014
Will Mexico's Successful Anti-Cartel Militias' Seek Systemic Change? Mexico's anti-drug cartel and corruption vigilante groups are growing in power and influence, but whose interests do they serve?  February 2, 2014	Mexico's Vigilante Groups Are a Force to Reckon with for Drug Cartels and Army The Mexican Federal Government negotiated a deal with the "Autodefensas", or community militias, as they fight to loosen the drug cartel's monopoly on power and violence in the Mexican state of Michoacan  May 29, 2017
20 Years on, Mexico is NAFTA's Biggest Lie Tim Wise: The numbers expose the official distortions around NAFTA's failed promises  January 2, 2014	Zapatista's Warning Over NAFTA Rings True 2 Decades Later Zapatistas correctly predicted that neoliberal economic policies like NAFTA would exacerbate poverty and undermine democracy  January 2, 2014
CIA Aiding Colombian Government in Assassinations of FARC Leadership The Washington Post exposes how the CIA and NSA have transferred advanced tracking technology to the Colombian government to help eliminate FARC leadership, despite human right violations against its civilian population  December 24, 2013	Uruguay Becomes First Country To Fully Legalize Marijuana The small Latin American country of Uruguay has become the only country that allows growing and selling marijuana  December 11, 2013
Local Communities vs Economic Development in Ecuador In San Jose de Intag, indigenous communities face an ill-matched battle to defend their environment against mega mining projects  December 11, 2013	Thousands in Honduras Decry "Fraudulent" Election and Call for Recount Activists and some election observers in Honduras vow to call for free and fair recount in election they say as rigged in favor of the ruling conservative party  December 2, 2013
Venezuela Tightens State Control Over Its Economy Gregory Wilpert: Venezuela Strengthens State Control Over Economy in Effort to Combat Inflation  November 24, 2013	Political Repression Intensifies Ahead of Honduran Presidential Election Jesse Freeston: Violence and political repression by western-backed Honduran military raises questions if Sunday's presidential election will be open and fair  November 23, 2013
Nicaraguan President Ortega's Power Grab James Henry: Daniel Ortega accumulating power, giving tax breaks to the rich instead of addressing inequality  November 20, 2013	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
Colombian Farmers and Union Activists Under Attack Social justice activists face grave risks in Colombia, considered to have one of the worst human rights record in the Western Hemisphere  November 3, 2013	Colombian Peace Talks Advance, Both Sides Optimistic Gregory Wilpert: As Colombia marks one-year anniversary of peace negotiations, both the FARC and government officials work to end decades-long conflict  November 2, 2013
New GMO Crops Temporarily Blocked in Mexico Timothy Wise: Anti-GMO activists in Mexico score a major, if tentative, victory.  October 29, 2013	Colombian Villagers Blockade State Drilling Project Citing environmental concerns, central Colombian villages use months of direct action to delay planned state oil project.  October 26, 2013
First-Ever Case of Canadian Mining Company Going To Trial In Canada For Alleged Abuses Abroad The trial of HudBay Minerals marks a first-time legal precedent of a Canadian company being held to account in Canadian courts for alleged shootings and gang rapes in Guatemala  October 22, 2013	Brazil's Rousseff Set to Privatize Libra Oil Field Despite protests and previously stating her opposition, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff auctions off 60% of Brazil's largest oil field  October 22, 2013
Honduras' Banana Coast: Ripe for Development? Garifuna communities and developers battle over mega-tourism projects  October 21, 2013	Original Yasuni Proposal Would Have Made Ecuador a Pilot Project for Green Development The failure of this initiative points at an important issue of our times, the necessity to balance civilization's growth and the well being and preservation of our planet and its biosphere.  October 16, 2013
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	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
US-Latin America Relations Hit New Low Gregory Wilpert: US foreign policy only contributes to the further deterioration of US-Venezuela relations  October 9, 2013	Mexico's Tlatelolco Massacre 45 Year Anniversary March Met with Police Repression Riot Police Brutally Repress Commemorative Protest in Mexico City: Students and Allies march to honor 45th anniversary of Tlatelolco Massacre  October 6, 2013
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	Bolivian Women's Groups Demand Decriminalization of Abortion Abortion remains legally restricted in almost all of Latin America, and in Bolivia clandestine abortions are the third leading cause of maternal deaths  October 2, 2013
Latin American Leaders Denounce US Intervention at UN Brazil's Rousseff outraged over NSA spying revelations, Bolivia's Morales calls for Obama government to be judged in tribunal  September 27, 2013	Mexico Police Repress Opponents of Neoliberal School Reform Through harassment, arbitrary detention and violence, Mexico sweeps teachers and students  September 22, 2013
Mexico City Police Violently Crackdown on Occupying Teachers In Mexico City police attack peaceful teachers protesting new Mexico education bill  September 16, 2013	National Farmers and Social Strike gets seeds control law 970 suspended In Colombia after 21 days of a nationwide strike by thousands of farmers, blocking more than 40 roads nationwide, protesting farmers forced the Colombian government to negotiate the rejection of a farm bill and the release of detained protesters.  September 14, 2013
Bolivians Protest US Attack On Syria Regional bloc UNASUR opposes possible U.S. military strike Strike On Syria  September 8, 2013	Tens of Thousands March Against Mexico School Privatization Teachers blockade downtown Mexico City to protest education reforms they say is harmful to public schools  September 5, 2013
Brazil Police Torture and Disappear Slum Residents With Impunity Brazil's police have tortured and disappeared more people under democratic leadership (1985-present) then during its military dictatorship (1964 - 1985)  September 4, 2013	Tens of Thousands of Colombian Farmers On Strike For Their Survival Farmers and their supporters protesting so called "Free Trade Agreements" that would likely eliminate their livelihoods  September 3, 2013
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	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
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	Will Brazil's PT Government Choose the Movement or the Elites? The PT government has tried to please the financial elites and gradually reduce poverty, but with public services in crisis, right-wing parties are attempting to use the public's discontent to their advantage  July 17, 2013
Brazil's Major Unions Join Movement for First Time, Strike in 150 Cities Brazilian workers strike across the country in "Day of Social Struggle' demanding specific reforms.  July 12, 2013	The Far Reaching Tentacles of Border Militarization Central American Migrants feel brunt of increasing border security in Mexico  July 7, 2013
In Response to Protests, Brazil's Congress Votes to Invest 100% of Oil Revenue into Education and Healthcare President Dilma Rousseff conceded many of the demonstrators' demands, and called for a national compromise to improve public services, by investing 100% of Brazil Oil revenues in education and health care.  July 1, 2013	Salvador Protests Attempt to Disrupt FIFA Game in Brazil Salvador's 'Sleeping Giant' awakens as city erupts in violence during FIFA confederation cup  June 24, 2013
Brazil's Nationwide Protest Movement Enters Third Week Waves of protests continue in Brazil as demonstrators demand government take decisive action to address their demands  June 24, 2013	Largest demonstration in Salvador's history marred by police violence Clashes erupt in Brazil as military police attack protesters marching on FIFA stadium at opening confederation game in Salvador  June 21, 2013
A million people across Brazil say "it's not about 20 cents" More than a million people demonstrate in a hundred cities across Brazil, and raise new demands.  June 21, 2013	Brazilian Authorities Rescind Bus Fare Hike Yet Massive Protests Continue Brazil protest that began over increasing cost of public transportation continues to draw tens of thousands to the streets  June 20, 2013
Paraguayan Indigenous Community Reoccupies Territory After Two Decades of Forced Expulsion After state fails to fulfill international court order returning ancestral lands illegally usurped by German cattle rancher, community decides enough is enough  June 23, 2013	Hundreds of Thousands of Brazilians Protest Country's Harsh Inequities Protest against bus fare increase sparked nationwide protest movement demanding systemic change  June 18, 2013
Mexican Activists Demand State Accountability For Increasing Numbers of Disappeared "Alive They Took Them, Alive We Want Them" Mexico rally demand calls for end to forced disappearances  June 7, 2013	US Drug War Props Corrupt Mexican Ruling Class John Ackerman: Last two Mexican presidents relied on US support for legitimacy not found in polls  June 4, 2013
Mexico's Drug War Claims 70, 000 Lives in 6 Years John Ackerman: Mexico's government estimates 26,000 people have gone missing since 2007 and as many as 70,000 killed in drug-related violence.  June 4, 2013	Activists Demand Mexican President Be Held Responsible for Deaths of Protesters Activists say Mexican president Pena-Nieto must be held accountable for activist's murders and torture during his governorship seven years ago  May 19, 2013
Mexican Worker-Run Tire Factory a Success Union wins years long struggle against vulture capitalists and now helms one of Mexico's most successful tire factories  May 8, 2013	Obama Visits Mexico - US Policy Helped Create a Land of Government Corruption and Narco Gangs While the media concentrates on energy, trade talks and securing the border, the real issue is Mexico's descent into a narco-state  May 2, 2013
"Generation Without Fear" Demands Free Education in Chile A massive student demonstration raises demand to end economic policies created under Pinochet Dictatorship  May 1, 2013	Mexican Journalists Threatened and Murdered Exposing Official Involvement with Narco Gangs A report on how courageous Mexican journalists are threatened and assassinated while reporting on relationship between senior police and political figures and transnational narco gangs  April 24, 2013
Pope Francis accused by family and friends of tortured priests Jorge Mario Bergoglio known for his opposition to progressive governments and clerics, is accused of silence, cooperation with Argentinean dictatorship  March 19, 2013	A New Pope and "The Most Corrupt Vatican Since the Borgias" Matthew Fox (former Catholic priest) discusses the Vatican's work with the CIA and it's alliance with far right political forces and Pope Francis' opposition to liberation theology in Latin America.  March 13, 2013
The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chavez Greg Wilpert looks at the achievements, failures and life of the leader of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution  March 7, 2013	Venezuela Announces the Death of Hugo Chavez Venezuela's Vice President Maduro tells the nation he is resolved to carry on the work of Chavez  March 5, 2013
Chavez Returns Home; Venezuela's Bolivar Devalued Greg Wilpert: Status of Chavez's health still not known; devaluation necessary to curb inflation  February 25, 2013	Correa wins re-election and says banks and mass media don't rule anymore President Rafael Correa re-elected with 61% of the vote, he faces 4 critical years for Ecuador  February 18, 2013
Ecuador Chooses Stimulus over Austerity Bill Black: As Ecuador votes for new president, the stimulus policies of current president Correa have kept Ecuador out of recession  February 14, 2013	The Legacy of Chile's Pinochet Dictatorship Lives On State repression of social movements by militarized Carabinero police force draws international condemnation  February 12, 2013
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	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
#132 Mexican Student Movement Confronts New President A YouTube video sparks a mass student movement protesting against newly elected President of Mexico Enrique Pena Nieto  February 1, 2013	Indigenous Mapuche People Struggle Against the Chilean State and Private Companies Most recent hunger strike by imprisoned activists over “politically motivated prosecutions” and state application of Antiterrorist Law comes to a close as conflict between Mapuche communities and the Chilean state intensifies  January 31, 2013
GM Rejects Talks as Ex-worker Enters 71st Day Of Hunger-Strike Ex-workers and their supporters aim to pressure GM to negotiate with employees injured at auto plant in Colombia  January 30, 2013	The Privatization of Chile's Sea Many small-scale fishermen say new fishing law could spell the end of their livelihood  January 18, 2013
Canada Suspends Aid to Haiti, UN, US, Canada Spend Money on "Security" as Cholera Persists Mark Weisbrot: Canada demands more effective Haitian government but most aid went to NGO's; failure of government a result of American and Canadian backed coup  January 10, 2013	Chavez Misses Inauguration, Will Be Sworn in by Supreme Court if he Recovers Alex Main (CEPR): Venezuelan opposition hopes to take advantage of crisis but after sweeping state elections and winning decisively in the Presidential election, Chavez forces unlikely to lose power in a new election  January 11, 2013
Ecuador vs The Bankers President Correa passes legislation that raises taxes on financial sector to finance a "Human Development Bond"  January 7, 2013	Socialists Sweep Venezuelan State Elections as Chavez Recovers in Cuba Greg Wilpert: It's likely Chavez will not remain in office and Maduro will head into elections  December 18, 2012
Student Movement Marks Radical Shift in Chilean Politics While students have not achieved their demand for free quality public education, movement develops new strategies with an eye towards upcoming 2013 elections  December 20, 2012	The Ugly Canadian: Harper Policy in Latin America Yves Engler: Canada has been openly hostile to Venezuela and leftward swing in Latin America - except in Cuba where Canada has large commercial interests  January 17, 2013
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	Broken Anvil: Human rights groups push for Washington investigation Annie Bird of Rights Action discusses May 11th killings  October 30, 2012
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	Colombian GM Workers Back on Hunger Strike After Negotiations Break Down TRNN exclusive interview with Jorge Parra, president of the Association of Injured Ex-Workers of GM Colombia. Some members have re-sewn their lips shut as they resume their hunger strike to the death.  September 17, 2012
Obama vs Romney on Human Rights Michael Ratner: President Obama’s record on human rights is no better than George Bush  September 14, 2012	Broken Anvil: Victims Fight for Justice After DEA Operation Leaves Four Dead in Honduras Soldiers opened fire from U.S. government helicopters, killing four people, including two pregnant women  August 21, 2012
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	The US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico is a Deadly Failure Mark Karlin: Approximately 50,000 or more Mexicans have been killed since Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched a so-called war on drug cartels.  September 15, 2012
Pressure on UN to Take Responsibility for Haiti's Cholera Outbreak Documentary film sends strong message linking UN troops as the cause of Cholera outbreak in Haiti  July 26, 2012	Roots of Correa's Ecuador A big grassroots movement shaped this South American Republic's new policies  July 20, 2012
Mass Protests Against Mexican Election Results Student movement takes to the streets to reject what they call election fraud  July 19, 2012	Thousands of Mexicans Protest Alleged Elections Fraud James Cockcroft: Mexican Elite will not allow Andres Lopez Obrador to be President  July 16, 2012
Is Haiti's Reconstruction Path Paved in Gold? Haiti's Gold Discovery Attracts Major US & Canadian Mining Companies  July 12, 2012	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
"True Cost of Chevron" Protest at Shareholders Meeting Antonia Juhasz: Chevron CEO fails to disclose significance of massive lawsuits in Brazil, Nigeria and Ecuador to shareholders  July 3, 2012	Is Ecuador's Economic Policy a Non Neo-Liberal Alternative? Rebecca Ray: Ecuador's economy continues to grow in spite of recession as they pursue policies that target poverty alleviation  June 7, 2012
Who Wants Peace in Colombia? Forrest Hylton: The far right is not interested in a peace process  June 1, 2012	Argentinian Central Bank Targets Growth, Not Lower Inflation John Weeks: The Central Bank of Argentina breaks ranks with neo-liberal banking policy and targets jobs over lower inflation  May 22, 2012
Is Ecuador's Economic Policy a Non Neo-Liberal Alternative? Rebecca Ray: Ecuador's economy continues to grow in spite of recession as they pursue policies that target poverty alleviation  May 22, 2012	Thousands Call for Peace in Colombia Thousands of victims of violence march in Bogota tell warlords they want an end to the conflict  May 15, 2012
Did Social Over Spending Cause the Euro-Crisis? Carlo Panico: Most media pays no attention to scientific economic literature  May 10, 2012	US Isolated at Summit of Americas Alex Main: From Cuba to the war on drugs, only Canada supports US policy  April 17, 2012
10 Years Since the Venezuelan Coup An excerpt from the film 'Inside the Revolution' that tells the story of the 2002 coup against Hugo Chavez  April 11, 2012	US Blocking Cuba Attending Summit of Americas Alex Main: Latin America moving away from US control with CELAC, an alternative to OAS  March 24, 2012
Chávez Faces Crime and Housing Shortage as Key Issues in Coming Venezuelan Elections Gregory Wilpert: Chávez dramatically reduced poverty and remains popular but must solve critical problems plaguing the country  March 13, 2012	Hundreds Killed in Honduras Jail Fire Shows Post-Coup Impunity Guards fired at prisoners trying to escape, part of a militarization of security that does not hold police, soldiers or generals accountable for crimes and human rights violations  February 24, 2012
Mexicanos Piden Justicia Por Estudiantes Normalistas Asesinados DespuĂ©s 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	Ecuador Creating Alternative to Neo-Liberal Model Jayati Ghosh: Ecuador raising taxes on wealthy, higher royalties on oil companies and making large social investments  February 2, 2012
Chile Rising Al Jazeera's Fault Lines follows Chile's student protest movement and examines the underlying issues driving the anger  January 19, 2012	Is Canada's Gold Corp. Good for Guatemala? Pt2 Lyuba Zarsky: Environmental and health effects are a violation of human rights  November 21, 2011
Is Canada's Gold Corp. Good for Guatemala? Lyuba Zarsky: 85% of gold revenues leave the country, where majority live in poverty  November 14, 2011	Argentina's President Fernandez wins landslide poll EuroNews: Argentina's centre-left President Cristina Fernandez has scored an easy win in her bid for re-election  October 25, 2011
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	Student Movement Rocks Chile Students campaign against privatized educational system, demand education as a right  September 2, 2011
Chilean students demand education reform Al Jazeera: Tens of thousands of students demonstrating in the capital against their country's education system  August 16, 2011	La Policia de Honduras Arasa con un Pueblo Reportaje desde la comunidad campesina de Rigores en el valle Aguán, dondĂ© un desalojo por parte de las autoridades deja a más de cien familias sin hogares  July 31, 2011
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	Battling Cancer, Chavez Returns to Venezuela Hugo Chavez returned to Caracas on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 from Cuba, still under treatment for cancer  July 5, 2011
Fault Lines - Mexico: Impunity and Profits Al Jazeera: The border city of Juarez has become infamous as the murder capital of the world  June 22, 2011	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
Massive Turnout for Zelaya Launches New Chapter of Honduran Struggle 'Largest gathering in Honduran history' receives deposed leader's return, but where to now for Honduran resistance movement?  June 1, 2011	Two Years After Coup, Overthrown President Returning to Honduras Ex-President Zelaya's return to Honduras not a return to democracy  May 28, 2011
Reporting Against Deadly Odds in Mexico Al Jazeera: Mexico no longer has a free press because of it's drug war  May 6, 2011	Mexican Gangs Move to Honduras Tim Johnson: Drug gangs muscle into new territory in Central America  April 23, 2011
Special Report: Honduran Teachers Get Shock Treatment Post-coup regime in Honduras carrying out unprecedented assault on the most organized sector of the resistance, the teachers  April 18, 2011	Students Battle Police at Honduran University Students and teachers defend against police attack on resistance movement at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras  April 1, 2011
Brutal Repression in Honduras Targets Teachers, Popular Resistance Weeks of demonstrations continue against de-facto regime and its plans to privatize public education  March 31, 2011	Report from Land Occupations in Post-Coup Honduras Poor farmers are taking land from agribusiness that supported the 2009 military coup--and paying with their lives  March 31, 2011
Haitians Demand New Elections Mark Weisbrot: US pressure forcing election runoff only with candidates they favor  February 26, 2011	Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 7 Camille Chalmers: Exploring the nature of the crisis in Haiti and the responses it has been given by the international community to this day  February 26, 2011
Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 6 Josette Perard : On the ground experience helps provide recommendations to help with Haiti's recovery  February 26, 2011	Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 5 Alexis Erkert Depp: Lack of options and resources leaves thousands of displaced Haitian citizens living in dehumanizing conditions.  February 26, 2011
Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 4 Maricia Jean : Women in Haiti are subjected to violence and rape post the earthquake due to a lack of infrastructure.  February 26, 2011	Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 3 Manolia Charlotin: The media's portrayal of Haiti and what you can do to increase accountability. A call to ask questions.  February 26, 2011
Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 2 Gina Ulysse: Rushing to action is not the solution to Haiti's problems. Talking is action and Haitians need to be included in the conversation.  February 26, 2011	Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 1 Danny Glover: Haiti's history and Haiti's relationship to today's world  February 26, 2011
One Year Later, Life no Better in Haiti Nicole Lee: Stability of markets depends on countries like Haiti remaining poor, Europe, US' commitment is to their own subsidies only  January 12, 2011	Direct Action from Brazil to Wisconsin People in the US are looking to South America for inspiration in occupying homes and factories  December 17, 2010
WikiLeaks on Latin America Jesse Freeston on The 200k Challenge Live Webcast  December 9, 2010	Mexican Police Stop COP16-Bound Caravan from Hosting Religious Ceremony at Chichen Itza Mobile Broadcast News reports from a convergence of indigenous environmental activists headed to Cancun to oppose UN climate change conference  December 6, 2010
A Climate Journey - The Andes: Retreat of the Glaciers The Guardian: John Vidal takes us through the snow-capped peaks of the Andes, where the Cayambe mountain glaciers are melting  December 1, 2010	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
The Tyranny of Soy Agribusiness in Paraguay Ben Dangl: President Lugo hasn't delivered on promises to the farmers who brought him to power, while transgenic soy farms expand  November 21, 2010	People & Power - Haiti: Seismic Election Al Jazeera: Later this month Haitians will go to the polls to elect a new president to deal with new challenges facing their country  November 19, 2010
'Dancing with Dynamite' in South America Ben Dangl: Many social movements now opposing the same leaders they helped bring to power  November 18, 2010	Haiti Storm Threatens Quake Camps Al Jazeera: Haiti is bracing for tropical storm which threatens fragile and crowded earthquake survivors  November 6, 2010
All the Colonel's Men Who was behind Ecuador's 9/30?  October 26, 2010	20-Year-Old Student - Mexican Town's Police Chief Newsy: Marisol Valles Garcia is a 20-year-old student and mother. She is now the police chief.  October 23, 2010
Drug War Deaths Mount in Mexico Al Jazeera: Monterrey has become one of Mexico's most violent places  October 17, 2010	The Day the President Disappeared Ecuadorian filmmaker/journalist Oscar Leon presents Ecuador: Failed Coup or Institutional Crisis Pt. 2/2  October 11, 2010
Ecuador: Failed Coup or Institutional Crisis? Ecuadorian filmmaker Oscar León presents his take on country's history that led to the crisis, Pt. 1/2  October 8, 2010	Correa Vows to Punish Rebels The Guardian: Ecuador attempted coup: President vows to punish rebels  October 1, 2010
Ecuador Troops Rescue President From Rebel Cops AP: Ecuadorean soldiers rescued President Rafael Correa overnight after a firefight with rebel police  October 1, 2010	Ecuador President Defiant After Failed Coup Wilpert: Right-wing forces use recession, President Correa's faltering popularity to launch failed coup  October 1, 2010
Turning Point for Colombian Civil War Forrest Hylton: Killing of guerrilla leader 'Mono Jojoy' could bring negotiated end to 45-year conflict  September 29, 2010	Honduran Regime Targets Musicians Café Guancasco, a favorite of the coup resistance movement, sees concert attacked by police and military  September 26, 2010
Behind Mexico's Bloodshed Pt. 2 Livesey: In Ciudad Juarez, the murder capital of Mexico, the military is picking winners amongst cartels  September 3, 2010	Behind Mexico's Bloodshed Pt.1 Bruce Livesey: While free trade wiped out Mexico's traditional agriculture, the drug cartels moved in  September 1, 2010
CHILE MINERS: RESCUE OPERATION FACES WATER DANGER Channel 4: 33 miners react calmly to the news that it may take until Christmas before they are rescued.  August 27, 2010	RECESSION FORCING COLOMBIA VENEZUELA PEACE Greg Wilpert: Resuming trade critical for both countries  August 28, 2010
POLICE CORRUPTION AND MEXICO'S FIGHT ON DRUG GANGS Al Jazeera: Four federal police commanders have been relieved of duty over allegations of corruption  August 9, 2010	CON AIR: ON-BOARD THE US ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FLIGHTS Channel 4 gains access to US border police and travels with illegal immigrants deported "back home"  August 7, 2010
FARC LEADER'S MESSAGE TO COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT Al Jazeera: Leader of the country's largest rebel group strongly criticizing Juan Manuel Santos  July 30, 2010	MEXICO'S DISAPPEARING MEZCAL WORMS Al Jazeera: Mezcal worm population is being pushed into decline, due to the drink's growing popularity.  July 25, 2010
PERU POVERTY DRIVES ILLEGAL MINING Al Jazeera: Thousands of people in Peru have moved to gold mining areas in the hope of striking it rich  July 25, 2010	HAITI: SIX MONTHS ON Al Jazeera: Deep wounds that fracture Haiti are re-emerging, more gaping than even before  July 14, 2010
FAULT LINES - HAITI: THE POLITICS OF REBUILDING Al-Jazeera coverage of the debates over how to rebuild Haiti  July 12, 2010	Right wins big in Colombia Forrest Hylton: Defense minister linked to 'False Positives' murders becomes president  June 21, 2010
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	Honduras journalists under attack AlJazeera: At least eight journalists have been murdered in Honduras in less than three months.  May 24, 2010
Colombia's ex-defence minister under fire Al Jazeera: Santos under fire for his alleged role in the illegal killings of innocent civilians by the  May 22, 2010	Talk to Jazeera - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Al Jazeera: Brazil's president talks about his success and his achievements as president  May 19, 2010
Colombian elections headed for upset? Hylton: Uribe's hand-picked candidate falling behind, has dark history of political repression  May 17, 2010	Colombian elections headed for upset? Pt.2 Hylton: Mockus a rupture with Uribe but not a break with US; but could relax tension with Venezuela  May 20, 2010
US supported economics spurred Mexican emigration Pt2 - Dan La Botz: A powerful movement of independent unions has emerged in Mexico  May 2, 2010	US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions Didier Dominique: US military helping to repress organizing of textile worker's unions in Haiti  April 29, 2010
US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions Pt2 Didier Dominique: Deliberate US policy weakened Haitian farming to create pool of cheap textile labor  April 30, 2010	US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions Pt3 Dominique: Haitian elite want to go back to cheap textile labour and destroying national food production  May 1, 2010
Bolivia's resource dilemma Government struggles with tension between extraction-based economy and global environmental leadership  April 25, 2010	Honduran campesinos under the gun Pt.2 Land conflict in Aguán is setting precedents for conflicts to come in post-coup Honduras  April 21, 2010
Honduran campesinos under the gun Pt1 Government mobilizes thousands of soldiers during negotiations with peasant plantation occupation  April 18, 2010	Mexico drug war cartels join forces AlJazeera: 23,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since a military crackdown started  April 15, 2010
U.S. covering up reality in Honduras State Department campaign denies the systemic repression that continues, nine months after coup  April 7, 2010	Clinton's Latin American tour Mark Weisbrot: Clinton tries to repair US image while urging recognition of controversial Honduran gov't  March 13, 2010
Haiti: The politics of rebuilding Al Jazeera Fault Lines: For whom will Haiti be rebuilt?  February 24, 2010	Colombia's cocaine trail, Pt.2: The labs Matthew Bristow reports for The Guardian on the cocaine industry in Colombia  February 19, 2010
Colombia's cocaine trail, Pt.1: The farmers Matthew Bristow reports for The Guardian on the cocaine industry in Colombia  February 18, 2010	Thriving black markets in Haiti aid Al Jazeera: Aid agencies believe that 10 per cent of donations are being sold on the black markets  February 8, 2010
Haiti Children 'Taken From Unaffected Areas' As the US missionaries in Haiti are charged with kidnapping, Channel 4 News reports  February 5, 2010	Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.3 Ronald Charles: Private armies continue to defend the interest of Haitian elite  February 4, 2010
Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.4 Ronald Charles: Three critical things that must be done to solve the problems of Haiti's future  February 5, 2010	Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.2 Ronald Charles: After Haitian revolution, colonial oppression turned into oppression by its ruling elite  February 1, 2010
Haitian survivors fight for food Security situation deteriorates in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince as residents fight for food.  January 27, 2010	Haiti and the 'Devil's Curse' Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention  January 21, 2010
Goldcorp shows little respect for local population The mine of Canadian Goldcorp Inc. is another blow to the environment and health of local communities.  March 14, 2010	Goldcorp shows little respect for local population The mine of Canadian Goldcorp Inc. is another blow to the environment and health of local communities.  March 14, 2010
Haiti: Guns or food? Presence of US troops provides both hope of relief, and fear of continuing legacy of US domination  January 17, 2010	Fault Lines - Rio: Olympic City - Pt. 1 Rio de Janeiro between favelas and Olympic plans  January 10, 2010
Rio: Olympic City - Pt. 2 Rio de Janeiro between favelas and Olympic plans  January 11, 2010	Prueba de fraude electoral en Honduras El Tribunal Supremo Electoral reporta cifras que van en contra de su propio conteo.  December 22, 2009
TRNN Exclusive: Honduran elections exposed Honduran coup regime's claims of more than 60% participation in free and fair election revealed as fraud  December 8, 2009	An election validated by blood and repression Honduran coup government continues repressive tactics on election day (Report from San Pedro Sula)  December 3, 2009
Hondurans set to elect new president Sunday's presidential polls seek to end a five-month political stand-off following the military coup  November 30, 2009	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
US to recognize Honduras poll result US decided to endorse election, with or without Zelaya in the next government  November 28, 2009	Honduras: Elections as coup laundering Report from Tegucigalpa: Coup regime rides police state repression into elections hoping for clean slate  November 28, 2009
El Salvador's gold fight goes international After activists block their permit, Canadian company uses US trade agreement to sue Salvadoran gov't  November 15, 2009	El Salvador's gold fight goes international After activists block their permit, Canadian company uses US trade agreement to sue Salvadoran gov't  November 15, 2009
Nothing resolved in Honduras Widely-celebrated, US-brokered agreement looks to have strengthened coup instead of reversing it  November 4, 2009	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
Honduras 100 Days of Resistance- Part 2 Fault Lines' Avi Lewis reports on polarization and power in the Americas  October 29, 2009	Honduras 100 Days of Resistance Pt1 Fault Lines' Avi Lewis reports on polarization and power in the Americas  October 28, 2009
Peruvian protesters detained, allegedly tortured A British mining company is facing a multi-million pound claim for damages  October 20, 2009	"Nothing happening" in Honduras Military shuts down all anti-coup radio and TV, silencing all reporting on the resistance movement  October 1, 2009
The siege of Tegucigalpa Repression ordered to the neighborhoods of the Honduran capital, forcing the poor to fight or starve  September 24, 2009	Zelaya's return to Honduras met with force Ousted president makes surprise return to the capital, coup government responds with vicious crackdown  September 22, 2009
Coup inciting revolution in Honduras? Oscar Estrada: Oligarchy's attempt to save their neo-liberal project may initiate fall of entire regime  September 17, 2009	Mr. Zelaya goes to Washington Ousted Honduran president brings his story to DC, gets a deceptive response from US State Dept.  September 5, 2009
Honduran resistance goes it alone 60 days of anti-coup protests show persistence in civil disobedience and little faith in int'l community  August 26, 2009	Gold, impunity, violence in El Salvador Assassination of anti-mining resistance leader Marcelo Rivera part of terror campaign against activists  August 13, 2009
Gold, impunity, violence in El Salvador Assassination of anti-mining resistance leader Marcelo Rivera part of terror campaign against activists  August 13, 2009	Battle for the Amazon: People vs the government The largest indigenous movement in decades battles to save the Amazon Basin from oil exploitation Pt 2  August 14, 2009
Battle for the Amazon: People vs the government The largest indigenous movement in decades battles to save the Amazon Basin from oil exploitation Pt 1  August 13, 2009	Honduras: Where does Washington stand? Hylton: By not taking steps prescribed by US law, US gov't supporting an increasingly repressive regime  August 5, 2009
US military to set up in Colombia Hylton: Rest of South America has reason to be alarmed by future US military presence on Colombian bases  July 28, 2009	Zelaya supporters claim second protester killed Supporters of Zelaya, the ousted Honduran president, say that a second demonstrator has been killed  July 26, 2009
Zelaya just one of millions Honduran coup plotters' fear isn't losing power to Zelaya or Chavez, it's losing power to Hondurans  July 23, 2009	The Price of Gold Pt 2 Argentinean community's environmental crusade against Canadian gold mining giant  July 25, 2009
The Price of Gold Pt 1 Argentinean community's environmental crusade against Canadian gold mining giant  July 24, 2009	The Honduran Battle for Washington As talks for a peaceful resolution fail, a fierce battle is on to win over the US government  July 21, 2009
Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution Many of the revolution's promises remain unfulfilled  July 19, 2009	US immigration crackdown tearing families apart In Guatemala a woman lost custody of her two children after US authorities deported her  July 12, 2009
Honduran clashes turn deadly As the Honduran military thwarted Manuel Zelaya's attempt to land, clashes turn deadly  July 6, 2009	Honduran coup resistance growing Sandra Cuffe: Military resorts to killing, numbers in streets double - even opponents of Zelaya join in  July 6, 2009
Honduras under siege Bertha Oliva: Coup leaders reviving despotism of the 80s in bid to crush participatory democracy  July 3, 2009	Military coup in Honduras Tinker-Salas: World leaders unified in calls for return to power of kidnapped president  June 28, 2009
Inside the Peruvian Amazon Ben Powless: President can hunt indigenous leader all he wants, the movement came from below  June 12, 2009	Chilean UN rep - Latin America demands equality H. Munoz: Latin America no longer an 'unconditional friend' of US as China and India increase presence  June 10, 2009
Police in Peru accused of disappearing bodies Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between indigenous people and police in Peru  June 10, 2009	60 die in Peru rainforest protest Clashes between police and indigenous protesters over drilling for oil and gas in rain forest  June 9, 2009
War on drugs and Mexico's demise Tinker-Salas Pt.2: US-funded militarization didn't stop Colombian drug trade and won't in Mexico either  May 7, 2009	Free trade and Mexico's drug war Miguel Tinker-Salas: Collapse of traditional economy created the space for the cartels to grow  May 3, 2009
'If there is no water, the Chipaya have no life' The Guardian: Uru Chipaya tribe lifestyle in the Bolivian Andes is being threatened by global warming  April 27, 2009	"Avenger against oligarchy" wins in Ecuador Ecuador's President Rafael Correa on Sunday declared victory in the country's presidential elections  April 27, 2009
Past is present in Latin America Pt.2 Latin American leaders, born out of US backed repression, demand an end to 50 year-old US-Cuba standoff  April 24, 2009	Past is present in Latin America At Summit Obama interested in looking forward, while many live the past every day - El Salvador report  April 19, 2009
Historic power shift in El Salvador Journalist leads former guerrilla army to left's first presidential victory in country's history  March 19, 2009	Campaign to close the School of the Americas Pt.2 Vera Leone: They may have changed the school's name, but we are still seeing the same violent results  March 2, 2009
Campaign to close down School of The Americas Pablo Ruiz: US tax dollars are used to train Latin American soldiers how to oppress their own people  February 26, 2009	Bolivia and the United States Pt4 Sinclair Thomson on the history of Bolivian-U.S. relations in the 2nd half of the 20th century.  February 7, 2009
Bolivia, Obama, and UNASUR Pt3 New constitution in Bolivia and the new U.S. government  February 7, 2009	Bolivia's Constitution and land reform Pt2 Thomson: The recently passed constitution in Bolivia marks significant concessions by Morales  January 31, 2009
Historic referendum passes in Bolivia Pt1 Thomson: New Bolivian Constitution marks first recognition of indigenous autonomy in 500 years  January 30, 2009	Can Chávismo survive without Hugo? Polls show majority support Chávez seeking constitutional change so he can run in 2012 Pt2/2  January 12, 2009
Will cheap oil compromise Venezuela´s revolution? Miguel Tinker Salas: Venezuela has been stashing away dollars in preparation for oil price fall  January 10, 2009	Colombia: From insults to handshakes At Rio Group summit an isolated Colombia backs down and apologizes for military raid into Ecuador  December 27, 2008
The media and the Venezuelan elections US media covers Chavez victory and calls it a defeat  November 28, 2008	Colombia in economic crisis Forrest Hylton: Uribe is no longer able to create illusion that he is in control  November 26, 2008
Angry investors protest in Colombia Forrest Hylton: Uribe has shown himself to be incapable of resolving economic issues  November 23, 2008	Evo Morales in his own words The Bolivian President, on his first visit to Washington, talks about visible change  November 20, 2008
Colombia declares emergency over investments Government issues four emergency decrees in response to nationwide unrest  November 19, 2008	Guardian: Colombians riot over stolen savings Thousands of people protest outside of high interest loan agencies  November 14, 2008
Bolivia approves new draft constitution Forrest Hylton : The fight is not over by any means but Bolivia has entered a new phase  October 23, 2008	Colombia's indigenous protest against Uribe Thousands gather for 62-mile march to demand justice and land  October 23, 2008
Russia draws closer to Venezuela Forrest Hylton: Venezuela moves to decrease dependence on the USA, not to threaten it  October 18, 2008	Russia and Bolivia ink helicopter deal Forrest Hylton: There used to be a recognition of US spheres of influence - all that is over  October 6, 2008
Latin American leaders support Morales at UN Forrest Hylton: Latin America is leading world in multipolar forms of regional diplomacy  September 26, 2008	Morales strengthened by Latin American leaders Forrest Hylton: Morales in stronger position in fight with opposition governors  September 20, 2008
Bolivia's Morales faces opposition governors Latin American leaders support Morales as talks begin in Bolivia between Morales and opposition governors  September 19, 2008	New US Commander in Iraq has aggressive reputation General Ray Odierno takes over US occupation in Iraq as demonstrators march against Gates' visit  September 17, 2008
Bolivia crisis worsens as emergency summit is held Forrest Hylton: US is being shut out as South American regional body tries to solve crisis on its own  September 16, 2008	Bolivia expels US ambassador Forrest Hylton: It's unclear how Morales can appease the autonomists without betraying his platform  September 13, 2008
Morales wins referendum but opposition hits back Forrest Hylton: The Morales government holds back on use of force against opponents  August 25, 2008	Is Betancourt release the end of FARC? Plan Colombia weakens FARC but cocaine production up at record levels  July 5, 2008
Divided kingdom in Panama Guardian: Naso tribe in Seiyik has split over government plan to build a hydroelectric dam on their land  June 19, 2008	Obama and a united South America Does Obama understand change in South America?  June 15, 2008
Chavez tells FARC armed struggle is over Chavez asks FARC to release all hostages  June 12, 2008	Colombia: What did Interpol find in the laptops? Forrest Hylton: This is really about manufacturing threats  May 22, 2008
When did the US "lose" Latin America? Forrest Hylton: The US is promoting secessionist movements to break up countries it cannot control  May 11, 2008	Bolivia: What does Santa Cruz want? Forrest Hylton: Santa Cruz state leadership and armed street gangs are overtly racist (part two)  May 10, 2008
US backs eastern secession in Bolivia Minority landholders vote for independence  May 9, 2008	Autonomy vote of rich province in Bolivia illegal Autonomy proponents in Santa Cruz claim victory as opposition boycotts referendum  May 6, 2008
Volcano erupts after 9000 years Hundreds of residents flee volcanoes in Chile and Peru  May 7, 2008	Bolivia faces separatist challenge Autonomy referendum pits rich oligarchs in Santa Cruz against poor indigenous majority in highlands  May 3, 2008
Morales calls for 'reparations to the earth' At UN forum on indigenous issues, Bolivian president calls for global economic overhaul  April 23, 2008	Paraguay elects left wing former Bishop Former Catholic clergyman inflicts crushing victory on ruling right wing party in power since 1947  April 21, 2008
61 years of right-wing rule could end in Paraguay Party of former Catholic bishop could make Paraguay the next Latin country to vote in the left  April 18, 2008	Dems snooze through Latin America's wake-up call Pepe Escobar: Latin American leaders bypass US and find solutions to internal conflict  March 11, 2008