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      One Environmental Defender Was Killed Every Other Day in 2022: Analysis

      "Governments around the world must urgently address the senseless killings of those who stand up for our planet, including for the protection of its most precious ecosystems."

      Jake Johnson
      Sep 13, 2023

      Nearly 180 environmental defenders were killed around the world last year—around one murder every other day—and more than 1,900 have been killed over the past decade, according to a gruesome new tally released Wednesday by the human rights group Global Witness.

      The group published the names of those known to have been killed in 2022 in a report titled Standing Firm, while acknowledging that the "names of many defenders who were killed last year may be missing, and we may never know how many more gave their lives to protect our planet."

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      Henry Kissinger meets with General Augusto Pinochet in 1976

      There Was No Pinochet Miracle—Only Menace and Dictatorship

      The claim of a Pinochet economic miracle is false, and it is also politically dangerous in the tacit support it gives to dictatorship and neoliberalism.

      Thomas Palley
      Sep 11, 2023

      September 11, 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of General Pinochet’s military coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende. While it is now widely recognized that Pinochet authorized large-scale human rights abuses, there is an accompanying narrative that he also unleashed an economic miracle via embrace of Milton Friedman’s “Chicago Boys” vision of a market economy.

      The “Pinochet economic miracle” narrative is profoundly misleading. Worse yet, it is a political menace for two reasons. First, it risks tacitly promoting the notion that dictatorship may be legitimate to the extent it offers a road to prosperity. Second, the Pinochet regime embraced Neoliberalism which promotes anti-democratic tendencies by fracturing society. The claim of a Pinochet economic miracle lends support to Neoliberalism, thereby encouraging acceptance of Neoliberalism despite its anti-democratic proclivities.

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      Child Refugees Hit Record in Latin America, Caribbean as Climate Crisis, Poverty Grip Region

      Child Refugees Hit Record in Latin America, Caribbean as Climate Crisis, Poverty Grip Region

      "The unprecedented scale of the child migration crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean urgently requires a stronger humanitarian response as well as the expansion of safe and regular migration pathways for children and families," said one international advocate.

      Julia Conley
      Sep 07, 2023

      The United Nation's children's welfare agency on Thursday called on member states to help address the root causes of the migration of children while ensuring that young people are kept safe when they do leave their home countries, as the number of children traveling on three major migration routes in Latin America and the Caribbean hit a new record.

      According to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), more than 60,000 children—including roughly 30,000 who were under the age of five—traveled through the perilous Darién jungle between Colombia and Panama in the first eight months of this year. An estimated 40,000 children made the journey in 2022 and about 29,000 crossed the jungle, where travelers must hike over steep mountain passes, walk through torrential downpours and cross fast-moving rivers—while also facing the risk of violence and exploitation.

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