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WEBTracing the Anti-Haitianism Behind the Springfield Scapegoating. Ayendy Bonifacio. September 16, 2024. Old racist tropes demonizing Haitians as uncivilized practitioners of barbaric or mysterious rituals have been revived, once again casting immigrants from Haiti as dangerous outsiders unworthy of protection or empathy. “Whose Side Are You On
Monitoring the U.S. Military Presence in Latin America | NACLA
WEBMarch 13, 2008. Tweet. Adam Isacson, Joy Olson and Lisa Haugaard. The physical presence of U.S. military personnel throughout the hemisphere has changed substantially during the past ten years. Back in 1997, large military bases were the rule, most of them in the former Panama Canal Zone. The Southern Command (SouthCom)—which is …
A Spark of Hope: The Ongoing Lessons of the Zapatista ... - NACLA
WEBDec 21, 2022 · January 1, 2019 marked 25 years since the Zapatistas captured the world’s imagination with their brief but audacious uprising to demand justice and democracy for Indigenous peasants in southern Mexico. While never formally laying down its weapons, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN ...
Costa Rica: A Democracy on the Brink - NACLA
WEBDec 17, 2021 · F our years after religious beliefs unexpectedly dominated Costa Rica’s 2018 presidential campaign, voters will cast their ballots for president and 57 members of the Legislative Assembly on February 6, 2022 amid even greater uncertainty. Since the last election, hardline neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ensuing economic downturn have pushed unemployment to record levels ...
About NACLA | NACLA
WEBOUR MISSION. T he North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 to examine and critique U.S. imperialism and political, economic, and military intervention in the Western hemisphere. In an evolving political and media landscape, we continue to work toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are ...
Remembering Mexico’s Dirty War 50 Years After …
WEBOct 9, 2018 · Read a Spanish version of this article here.. A s president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador prepares for his inauguration this coming December in Mexico, he is a step away from inheriting a country witnessing its worst human rights crisis in a century. Since 2006, the numbers of killings and disappearances attributed to the drug war and organized crime have surpassed 150,000, and 2018 is ...
A Love Letter to Indigenous Blackness - NACLA
WEBJul 28, 2021 · As an imagined racial mixture and mythical racial sameness bounded by nationalism, Central American mestizaje relegates, alienates, and ascribes Blackness to the Caribbean coast, erasing centuries of Black folks living in the interior and Pacific coasts. In this way, mestizaje is a racial project in opposition to and in negation of Blackness.
Legacies of the U.S. Invasion of Panama - NACLA
WEBOn December 20, 1989, former president George H.W. Bush ordered the invasion of Panama. The U.S. 82nd Airborne division pummeled Panama City from the air, as U.S. soldiers from the 193rd Brigade clashed in the streets with troops from the Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) and the Dignity Battalions, a militia of workers and campesinos.
Remembering Grenada’s Revolution Beyond Cold War Narratives
WEBAn internationalist critique of empire demands a contestation of empire’s memory. On March 13, 1979, five years after Grenada’s independence from Britain, the New Jewel Movement (NJM) mounted an armed attack against the increasingly erratic and authoritarian Prime Minister Eric Gairy.
Mexico’s Emerging Narco-State | NACLA
WEBThe July 5 mid-term election in Mexico will continue narcotraffickers' creeping reach into all sectors of the country's political life. The army and police are already drenched in narco-scandals, while reports show that political campaigns and government offices have also been infiltrated or co-opted by traffickers. But Mexico is not a failed state, such extensive corruption and illicit wealth ...