Latin America 
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SOURCE: Associated Press
8/31/2020
US Cables: Colombia’s Ex-President Suspected Of Militia Ties
The National Security Archive has publicized documents from the George W. Bush administration which show the US government was well aware of ties between Colombian president Alvaro Uribe and right-wing paramilitary groups that the US had identified as terrorist groups.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
6/8/2020
Using the Military to Quash Protests Can Erode Democracy – As Latin America Well Knows
by Kristina Mani
Even strong democracies have unraveled when the military was brought in to quell protest. Uruguay in the 1960s, Venezuela in the 1980s and Chile just last year provide insights.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/18/2020
Venezuela Failed Raid: US Has a History of Using Mercenaries to Undermine Other Regimes
by Andrew Thomson
The arrest of Silvercorp mercenaries in Venezuela echoes a long history of the U.S. government supporting private troops to overthrow foreign governments.
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SOURCE: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
4/30/2020
A History of Inconvenient Allies and Convenient Enemies
by Alexander Aviña
The history of American alliances abroad doesn't make sense as a drug control strategy, but is consistent with a strategy of invoking the war on drugs to punish governments that resist U.S. domination.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/7/2020
How Coffee Ruined a Country
by Lizabeth Cohen
Lizabeth Cohen reviews Augustine Sedgewick's book, which argues that coffee monoculture was disastrous to El Salvador.
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SOURCE: MPR News
1/13/20
A Beautiful World: Ancient texts reveal Aztecs’ history in their own words in Camilla Townsend's Latest Book
Camilla Townsend’s new book, "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs," documents the story of the Aztecs from an entirely new perspective, that of the Aztecs themselves.
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SOURCE: Origins
December
Review: A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left
by Amanda Lawson
In his book, historian David C. Kirkpatrick explores the development of the understudied—and by many accounts, unacknowledged—Latin American Evangelical Left.
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10/20/19
A History of Influencing Presidential Children to Change Policy
by Aaron Coy Moulton
How Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo used the ambassador to the Dominican Republic's son to try to influence American foreign policy.
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SOURCE: NY Times
8/21/19
My 60 Years of Disappointment With Fidel Castro
by Enrique Krauze
Latin American, with few exceptions, they have refused to see the historical failure of the Cuban Revolution and the oppressive and impoverishing domination of their patriarch.
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4/7/19
Venezuela and the Birth of the American Empire
by Benjamin Welton
Why is a nearly 200-year old document still relevant today?
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3/3/19
Will the U.S. Government Abide by the International Law It Created in Venezuela?
by Lawrence Wittner
And how the U.S. government has violated these principles of international law in the past.
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2/5/19
Don’t Invade Venezuela
by Alan McPherson
Contrary to what most believe, a military intervention in South America would be unprecedented
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9/15/18
Trump’s Ignoring Latin America. We Do that at Our Peril.
by Mary Jo McConahay
Lessons from World War II.
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4/8/18
Democracy in Latin America Is Once Again Under Threat, but that’s Not the Whole Story
by Hilda Sabato
We need to remember that many of these countries helped lead the way to the establishment of republican government.
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10-23-16
What Would a President Hillary Clinton Do to Help Democracy in Latin America?
by Brian D'Haeseleer
We can’t be sure, but her track record suggests she’d favor military solutions at the expense of democracy in a crisis.
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1-2-15
How the Nation Covered Latin America (Video)
by Greg Grandin
The Nation was far ahead of the mainstream media in recognizing new trends.
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SOURCE: ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America
12-22-14 (accessed)
The astounding record of United States interventions in Latin America
by John H. Coatsworth
In the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S. government has intervened successfully to change governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12-30-13
Latin America Leans Forward
by Enrique Krauze
Latin America of late has shown a maturity without precedent in its turbulent history.
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SOURCE: NACLA
7-29-13
NACLA: "This American Life" whitewashed U.S. crimes in Latin America
Celebrating 2012’s best examples of broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody Awards attracted the likes of D.L. Hughley, Amy Poehler and Bryant Gumbel to the Waldorf-Astoria’s four-story grand ballroom in New York this past May. In a gaudy ceremony hosted by CBS star-anchor Scott Pelley, National Public Radio’s This American Life received the industry’s oldest and perhaps most prestigious accolade. The 16-member Peabody Board, consisting of “television critics, industry practitioners and experts in culture and the arts,” had selected a particular This American Life episode—“What Happened at Dos Erres”—as one of the winners of its 72nd annual awards on the basis of “only one criterion: excellence.”...
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Obama's Lost War on Drugs
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
Rather than relying on our hopeless forty-fourth president and an even more hopeless Republican-controlled Congress, citizen groups need to mobilize together to oppose the waste of their hard earned taxpayer dollars in the War on Drugs.
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