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The US and Nicaragua Now: An Interview with S. Brian Willson

By Tortilla con Sal on August 24, 2020

Photo: Becky Luening

Tortilla con Sal: We’re here with Brian Willson, Viet Nam veteran and onetime criminal lawyer. Brian has written (more…)

Guatemala: Using the Pandemic to Secure the Interests of Big Business

By Giorgio Trucchi on August 26, 2020

Guatemala is currently the country in Central America and the Caribbean with the most people killed by the Covid-19 (more…)

Chiapas on Fire

By Luis Hernández Navarro August 25, 2020

2001, Zapatista leadership, Photo: Bill Hackwell

Chiapas is on fire.  The bosses of the paramilitary forces have turned them loose and they have become bold (more…)

Venezuela: Aggression in October?

By Ángel Guerra Cabrera, on August 26, 2020

A US-sponsored military aggression against Venezuela could take place before the November 3 elections in that (more…)

Why Cuban Doctors Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

By Vijay Prashad on August 25, 2020

Five years ago, I read the story of Dr. Félix Báez, a Cuban doctor who had worked in West Africa to stop the spread (more…)

Bolivia: From Dictator Banzer to Dictator Áñez

By Mariano Vásquez on August 24, 2020

Caption: Augusto Pinochet and Hugo Banzer, 1975

On August 21 1971, the most extensive coup in Bolivia’s history began.  It lasted seven years and toppled the nationalist (more…)

Politics in Miami and its influence on Cuba

By Jesús Arboleya on August 20, 2020

In his book, Miami, City of the future, journalist and historian T.D. Allman states: “Only thanks to an accident of (more…)

MEXICO: First the Poor

By Roger Stoll on August 24, 2020 

Por el bien de todos, primero los pobres (“For the good of all, first the poor.”)

—AMLO (more…)

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