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.

• 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.