Reports reveal that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) used known criminals to spy on and destabilize the left-wing governments in Venezuela, Mexico, and Bolivia. By Ben Norton Published 02/05/24 Numerous reports in major media outlets have documented how the US government has used the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in order to spy on and … Read More
Interview with Teri Mattson (former TFA director and board member) by Rick Sterling (current TFA board president) Teri Mattson is producer and host of the weekly podcast “WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean?” broadcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, CODEPINK, as well as https://popularresistance.org/wtf-is-going-on-in-latin-america-the-caribbean/ Rick Sterling: How did you wind up living in Mexico … Read More
By Dale Sorensen, TFA Advisory Board For the previous two centuries, the US has dominated Latin America under the protection of the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny through a combination of privileged trade relations, patronage, clientelism, covert coercion and coup d’états, and most recently via the financialization of the economy through the Washington Consensus (1989), … Read More
By Analy Nuño, journalist Ed. Note: article edited for length When Clemente Rodríguez imagines seeing his only son Christian again, he envisions an encounter on a Mexican beach, or a chance meeting on the streets of his home village. Maybe his son will have a beard; after eight years, he’s bound to have changed. “I … Read More