Families Fleeing from Guatemala: A Case of Corporate and State Aggression
Marc Pilisuk, Jennifer Rountree and Rebecca FerencikFrom Berkeley, CA and Portland, OR In its attempt to stem a spike in
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Central America
2019 Latin America in Review: Year of the Revolt of the Dispossessed
By Roger HarrisFrom Corte Madera, California A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe
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The Other Nicaragua, Empire and Resistance
Polarized opinions yield opposite views of the political conflict that occurred from April to July 2018. The hegemonic version told by the media depicts a crazed dictatorship murdering peaceful demonstrators. But this article recounts different experiences and different indignations. We use the term “soft coup” and place the people’s capacity for resistance in the context of their history of anti-imperialism…
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TUG-OF-WAR: Forced Labor on the New Panama Canal?
The Panama Canal Authority completed a five billion dollar expansion in 2016, introducing a new set of locks, adding a new, wider sea lane able to haul twice as many supertankers between the Atlantic and the Pacific as before. But instead of hiring extra personnel needed to meet the increased workload, the Panama Canal simply doubled-down on the workload for existing employees, stretching them past the brink of exhaustion, and creating a deadly climate of fatigue embedded in a labor struggle on the isthmus.
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Plight with Panamanian Institutions: An Interview with Independent Presidential Hopeful Dr. Miguel Antonio Bernal
| by Rachel Rosenberg Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs To download a PDF of this article,
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Three Months of Violent Conflict in Nicaragua with No End in Sight: An On-The-Ground Report
| by Dr. Charles G. Ripley Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs To download a
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