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US Concern for Cuba, Latin America is Spin for Intervention
The US government says it is going to help Central America fight corruption, will combat the “root causes” of migration in Mexico and Central America, and it wants to help the Cuban people with freedom too. But the US’s domestic and foreign track re ...[Read more]
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Extractive Companies Are Privatizing Repression and Counterinsurgency in the Americas
As activists increasingly confront extractive industries, militarized repression of those protests has become a growing and lucrative business. This phenomenon is salient across much of the world, including the U.S., where fossil fuel companies are funnel ...[Read more]
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How did we let neoliberalism win? Rafael Correa interviews Cristina Kirchner on RT
Two signature figures of Latin America's Pink Tide, former Ecuador President Rafael Correa and Argentina's ex-leader, Christina Kirchner, speak about their time in government, and analyze why the right was able to make a comeback. ...[Read more]
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All Aboard the Post-TPP World
A half-hearted near handshake between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin before and after they spoke «for about four minutes», standing up, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru ...[Read more]
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