by W. T. Whitney After narrowly losing elections in 2013 and 2017, Xiomara Castro and her social democratic Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre) won the next set of elections such that, as of January 2022, she was Honduras’s new president. The defeated National Party had presided over worsening corruption, electoral fraud, poverty, and violent repression … Read More
Rick Sterling July 17, 2024 When the Monroe Doctrine was declared in 1823 it was aimed at European colonial powers. It told them to butt out: the US “sphere of influence” included all of Latin America and the Caribbean. Virtually every Latin American and Caribbean country has had to endure US intervention and interference in … Read More
ALBA-TCP Rejectds New Sanctions Imposed by the US Government on Nicaraguan Nationals and Companies “The member States of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) categorically reject the new array of unilateral and illegal sanctions that the U.S. government has imposed on Nicaraguan nationals and companies. Within less … Read More