FOR THE LATINX RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Cover Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction Contributors Cover Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction Contributors Smashing White Supremacy – and its Borders – One Word at a Time: A Manifesto on Why I Write Children’s Literature By Dr. Siu Author of the […]
In El Salvador, a Chance at Life Over Certain Death (OPINION) By: Nalya Rodríguez FEB 12, 2020 Supporters of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele gather outside Congress, Sunday, February 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Salvador Meléndez) On Sunday afternoon, thousands of people gathered outside of El Salvador’s legislative assembly after President Nayib Bukele summoned […]
Guaido Has Links With Money Launderer Defended by Rudy Giuliani One of Juan Guaido’s financiers is involved in the embezzlement of US$1.2 billion, an amount which was laundered through false real estate and security deals. Venezuela’s Communication Minister Jorge Rodriguez Thursday informed that international media have disclosed data on the links […]
By: The Laura Flanders Show, January 21, 2020 What most Americans know about Puerto Rico is based on a colonial fantasy, says journalist and Columbia University professor, Ed Morales. This fantasy, and the reality it obscures, is the subject of his new book, Fantasy Island. In this episode, Laura interviews […]
Central American Caravan for the Disappeared Seeks to Reunite Families January 14, 2020 A caravan of Hondurans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans, heads north towards Mexico looking for lost and disappeared loved ones. From TheRealNews
Several Caribbean Nations Reject Pompeo’s Visit to Jamaica The Caribbean nations are standing in defiance of Pompeo’s attempts to split up the region and isolate friendly countries. The Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley recently announced that her country was not sending their Foreign Minister to Jamaica in order to attend a […]
Tally of children split at border tops 5,400 in new count From NPR Nation Oct 25, 2019 10:54 AM EST SAN DIEGO — U.S. immigration authorities separated more than 1,500 children from their parents at the Mexico border early in the Trump administration, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday, bringing […]
FACEBOOK WARRANT TARGETING STUDENT JOURNALISTS IN PUERTO RICO PROMPTS FEARS OF POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE By Alleen Brown, Alice Speri January 19 2020, 4:30 a.m. From the https://theintercept.com AS SEVEN University of Puerto Rico students prepare to face trial in February for participating in a nonviolent protest more than two years […]
The massacre of five Indigenous leaders in Colombia has shocked the country. The killings took place in the southwestern region of Cauca. Among the victims was Cristina Bautista, the leader of the semi-autonomous Indigenous reservation of Nasa Tacueyó. Four of the community’s unarmed guards were also killed, while six others […]
Whitewashing Neoliberal Repression in Chile and Ecuador By Lucas Koerner October 23, 2019 Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, people are rising up against right-wing, US-backed governments and their neoliberal austerity policies. Currently in Chile, the government of billionaire Sebastian Piñera has deployed the army to crush nationwide […]
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