Hurricane Eta hits the Mosquito Coast John Perry Central America’s ‘Mosquito Coast’, the home of the Miskito people, stretches between Honduras and Nicaragua. The border is at a point that juts out into the Caribbean: Columbus called it Cabo Gracias a Dios for the shelter it provided on his last voyage. As the storm that … Read More
Neoliberal obesity and coronavirus in Mexico American capital brought high rates of chronic disease to Mexico which has led to a surging COVID-19 death toll. Belen Fernandez Belen Fernandez is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine. 19 Sep 2020 In much of Mexico it sometimes seems impossible to take a step without tripping over Coca-Cola … Read More
End US and UN Support for the Criminal Regime of Jovenel Moise By Rob Roth, Haiti Action Committee The human rights crisis under the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise has continued to widen and deepen with the proliferation of “Tonton Macoutes” style death squad repression across the country. On October 2nd, 2020, university student leader, … Read More
U.S. Police Model and Colombia’s ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Disturbances Squadron) by Maya Hernández, National Coordinator for Alliance for Global Justice “A cop is a cop,” said James Baldwin in 1971. Undoubtedly, Baldwin was pointing to the way that U.S. law enforcement operates as a fraternized collective, wherein individual officers are not so much the problem as … Read More
TFA Board Member Roger Harris provides a wealth of research sources in this analysis….. 2020 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide May Rise Again By Roger D. Harris The balance between the US drive to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and … Read More