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Alexander Main

Alexander Main is Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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Why is there so little tangible concern about the brutal "collateral damage" caused by Trump's economic sanctions? Photo: Justin Podur)

Trump's Deadly Sanctions Power Should Be Reined In

US presidents should not have the power to unilaterally wage economic warfare against civilian populations.

Alexander Main · Mar 20, 2020

The latest sign of resistance comes from Mexico, where decades of neoliberalism and a failed and devastating U.S.-backed drug war spurred the landslide victory of a left-wing candidate for the first time in the country’s contemporary history.(Photo: Mexico's incoming president Andrés Manuel López Obrador/ Getty)

Is Latin America Still the U.S.’s ‘Backyard’?

In fact, U.S. administrations have been pursuing roughly the same agenda in Latin America since at least the early 20th century: maintaining U.S. hegemony throughout the region

Alexander Main · Sep 12, 2018

The Hillary Clinton Emails and the Honduras Coup

Alexander Main · Sep 24, 2015

Vice President Biden, More of the Same Won't Work in Central America

Alexander Main · Mar 19, 2015

US Government Misled Public on Critical Role in Colombia’s 2008 Illegal Cross-border Attack

Alexander Main · Jan 4, 2014

Obama and the Militarization of the “Drug War” in Mexico and Central America

Alexander Main · May 10, 2013

Will the US Continue to Obstruct Justice for Baby Doc's Victims in Haiti?

Dan Beeton · Feb 27, 2013

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