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IG Report Finds Trump Aid to Venezuela Was Aimed at Toppling Maduro

"This was incredibly obvious at the time, but it's shocking to see the details," said one U.S. journalist and author. 

Brett Wilkins · Apr 30, 2021

Protesters throw stones after a truck carrying what critics called politically motivated U.S.-donated humanitarian aid was set on fire at the Francisco de Paula Santander Bridge linking Colombia and Venezuela on February 23, 2019. (Photo: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images)

Citing Racist Massacres and 'Inexcusable' Prevalence of Guns, Foreign Countries Issue Travel Safety Warnings for United States

Julia Conley · Aug 6, 2019

A folder reading "Terrorists" on its cover, that forms part of the "Archives of Terror" is pictured at the Documentation and Archive Center for Human Rights Defense, at the Justice Palace in Asuncion, on January 16, 2019. - The archives that were found in 1992 at a police station in Asuncion, contain the most important documentation of the exchange of intelligence information and prisoners among the military regimes of the region known as "Operation Condor". The files served to order the arrest of former Pa

Five Men Sentenced to Life for Operation Condor Killings Trained at School of the Americas

Brett Wilkins · Jul 17, 2019

The Organization of American States Shouldn’t Be Run by Regime Change Enthusiasts

Laura Carlsen · Jan 24, 2019

Celebrating Common Sense?

Karen Hansen-Kuhn · Jul 16, 2016

Writer Eduardo Galeano, Voice of Latin America's Left, Dead at 74

"This world is not democratic at all," Galeano said in 2013. "The world is organized by the war economy and the war culture."

Deirdre Fulton · Apr 13, 2015

In 'Historic Stand' Against Injustice, Uruguay Welcomes Six Gitmo Detainees

Move marks 'step toward ending longstanding injustice'

Andrea Germanos · Dec 7, 2014

'Safeguarding Historic Marijuana Legalization,' Uruguay's Vazquez Wins Election

'Uruguayans have said yes … yes to more democracy,' the former president declared

Andrea Germanos · Dec 1, 2014

A former Uruguayan guerrilla leader, President Jose Mujica is showing world leaders a new way to govern. (Credit: Creative Commons / Pable Porciuncula / AFP/Getty)

10 Reasons to Love Uruguay’s President José Mujica

Medea Benjamin · May 15, 2014

Indigenous demonstrators in Peru's Cajamarca province protesting drinking water contamination from the US-Peruvian Conga gold mine, whose operations have been stalled due to the local opposition. (Photo: Diego Cupolo)

Neoliberalism, the Left, and the Politics of Pachamama

Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America

Benjamin Dangl · Apr 25, 2014

Obama Wrong to Isolate Venezuela

Oliver Stone · Mar 24, 2014

Guantánamo: ‘Flouting the Rules of Law and Morality’

Juan Vasquez · Mar 23, 2014

A Step Toward Justice in the Long “War on Terror”: Uruguay Offers to Welcome Guantanamo Detainees

Benjamin Dangl · Mar 22, 2014

The Bleached Bones of the Dead: What the Modern World Owes Slavery

(It’s More Than Back Wages)

Greg Grandin · Feb 24, 2014

Venezuelan Opposition Leader Arrested for Fomenting Unrest

Foreign Policy experts emphasize the largely orchestrated demonstrations come with strong US backing

Lauren McCauley · Feb 18, 2014

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