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Venezuela: Trump Threat of US Military Intervention "Madness" of US Imperialism

Trump Set to Take Backwards Step on Cuba Policy

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

President Donald Trump on Friday is set to put a chill on the thawed relations between the U.S. and Cuba his predecessor put in place just three years ago. In an announcement in Miami, Trump will partially roll back Obama's measures, which the new administration sees as a failed " appeasement " effort. NPR writes that the president will not go so...

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Backers of Honduran Dam Opposed by Murdered Activist Withdraw Funding

Nina Lakhani, The Guardian

The international funders behind the hydroelectric dam opposed by murdered...

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Marking Earth Day, Indigenous People Worldwide to Fight Corporate Forces

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

Indigenous people and allies around the world are mobilizing this Earth Day to...

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Members of the Unified Campesinos Movement of the Aguán Valley (MUCA) carry mock coffins bearing photos of murdered relatives during a 2012 march against the ongoing violence in the Baja Aguán valley.

Honduran Farmers Sue World Bank Lending Arm for 'Profiting From Murder'

A vigil for Berta Cáceres.

Berta Cáceres' Murder Linked to U.S.-Trained Soldiers, Leaked Court Docs Show

Mexican Goldman Environmentalist Prize Winner Killed in Latest Attack on Latin American Activists

Human Rights Defenders Face 'Unthinkable Spiral of Violence' in Latin America

Upend the Tax Havens to Fund Clean Energy Revolution, Group Urges

Brazil Fallout Begins as Leftist Leaders Denounce 'Coup Against Latin America'

US Special Ops Training in Latin America Tripled, Docs Reveal

Completing Democratic Overthrow, Brazil's Right-Wing Senate Ousts Rousseff

Rousseff Warns of Threat to Brazil's Democracy as "Coup" Nears End

Venezuela's Maduro Accuses US of "Imperialist Attack" Against Latin America

Bolivia Builds Anti-Imperialist School to Counter US Hegemony

'Not a Good Day for Democracy': Senate Approves Impeachment Trial for Brazil's Rousseff

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132 Academics and Researchers

132 Academics and Researchers Call for a Dialogue Between Authorities at the Autonomous University of Honduras-UNAH Campuses and Protesting Students

Center for Biological Diversity

Mexican Environmental Activist, Winner of Goldman Prize, Murdered in Relative's Home...

Oxfam International

Violence Against Human Rights Activists in Latin America is Out of Control

Center for International Environmental Law

Deadly Shade of Green

School of The Americas Watch

Thousands to Call for Closure of Controversial Training Facility for Latin American Soldiers

Fight for $15

Golden Arches Faces First-Ever Global Hearing on Company’s Low-Road Business Model, Under Fire for Allegations of Tax Dodging, Unfair Competition, Franchise Law Violations

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Jeremy Scahill

The Battle for Venezuela and Its Oil

James Galbraith, Ha-Joon Chang, William K. Black, et al.

A Refutation of Neoliberalism's Defenders in Ecuador

Mark Weisbrot

Venezuela Needs Negotiation to Avoid Civil War, Not Trump-Supported "Regime Change"

Jake Johnston

Miami Conference Signals Further Militarization of US Policy in Central America

Greg Grandin

How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega’s Panama Super-Charged US Militarism

Aviva Chomsky

Making Sense of the Deportation Debate

Martin Winiecki

War and Peace and War

Ben Leather

US Congress Calls for Action on Honduras in Response to Murders of Land and Environmental Activists

Pedro Cabezas

In Defeat of Mining Giant, El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold

William K. Black

People Reject Neoliberalism's Return, But Challenges Remain in Ecuador

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