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Looking into the Eyes of Central American Refugees in a Time of Hate and Fear

When I crossed the border, a man with his shirt unbuttoned down to his belly and sweat pouring down his chest took my passport, glanced at it for no more than two seconds, then stamped it with a smile and cheerily barked to me “welcome to Mexico.”

My entry into Mexico couldn’t have been easier, because I’m from Australia and don’t need a visa. But for hundreds of thousands of men, women, children and entire families fleeing violence and crossing Mexico’s ...

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1
DEC
2016

Articles

Central America, CNN, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Latin America, Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico–United States border, Republican Party United States, United States

Michael Snyder – Living In A Van Down By The River – Time To Face The True State Of The Middle Class In America

Do you remember the old Saturday Night Live sketches in which comedian Chris Farley portrayed a motivational speaker that lived in a van down by the river? Unfortunately, this is becoming a reality for way too many Americans. As the middle class has shrunk and the cost of living has increased, a lot of people have decided to quite literally “live on the road”. Whether ...

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23
SEP
2016

Politics, Socio-economic

Arab States of the Persian Gulf, Asia, Barack Obama, Bureau of Labor Statistics, California, California Heaven, CBS News, Central America, Florida, West Coast of the United States

Franklin Frederick – Trade Agreements and the Globalization of Fascism

Going east or west from Switzerland one would have to cross at least half the planet before reaching the Pacific Ocean. This distance alone makes it very unlikely that Switzerland would get involved with the Pacific Alliance (PA) or in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). However, the Swiss based transnational Nestlé is very much engaged with the PA and its objectives. Nestlé also seems to have a powerful influence on Swiss foreign policy and has managed to get the Swiss government to engage with the PA. ...

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23
SEP
2016

International News, Politics

Atlético Nacional, Bolivia, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Latin America, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Switzerland, United States

Chico Harlan – Inside the administration’s $1 billion deal to detain Central American asylum seekers

DILLEY, Tex. — As Central Americans surged across the U.S. border two years ago, the Obama administration skipped the standard public bidding process and agreed to a deal that offered generous terms to Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest prison company, to build a massive detention facility for women and children seeking asylum.

The four-year, $1 billion contract — details of which have not been previously disclosed — has been a boon for CCA, which, in an unusual arrangement, gets the ...

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16
AUG
2016

Politics, Socio-economic

Central America, Corrections Corporation of America, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Guatemala, Obama administration, Refugee, The Washington Post, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States

Ming Chun Tang – Hillary Clinton’s Memoir Deletions, in Detail

As was reported following the assassination of prominent Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres in March, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton erased all references to the 2009 coup in Honduras in the paperback edition of her memoirs, “Hard Choices.” Her three-page account of the coup in the original hardcover edition, where she Continue Reading →

31
MAY
2016

Politics

Central America, Extrajudicial killing, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Human rights, Murder, President of Colombia, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, United States Department of State

Jonathan Marshall – The Clinton-Colombia Connection

On June 29, 2009, one day after Honduran military leaders ousted their country’s democratically elected president,President Obama publicly branded the coup illegal and denounced it as “a terrible precedent.” Yet even as he spoke, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was ensuring that U.S. aid continued and that major capitals would recognize the new regime.

Human rights activists have long decried her for abandoning democratic rights and values in Honduras. But many have overlooked her cozy embrace ...
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23
MAY
2016

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Uncategorized

Álvaro Uribe, Brazilian Social Democracy Party, Central America, Colombia, Dilma Rousseff, El Salvador, Farc, Hillary Clinton, Jonathan Marshall, Juan Manuel Santos, Latin America

VIJAY PRASHAD – Political Violence in Honduras

On March 3, assassins entered the home of Berta Caceres, leader of Honduras’ environmental and indigenous movement. They shot her friend Gustavo Castro Soto, the director of Friends of the Earth Mexico. He pretended to be dead, and so is the only witness of what came next. The assassins found Berta Caceres in another room and shot her in the chest, the stomach and the arms. When the assassins left the house, Castro went to Berta ...
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3
MAY
2016

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Government, Politics

Americas, Central America, Earth, green, Honduras, Human rights, Indigenous rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Lenca people, United States

jim robbins – How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease

In Borneo, an island shared by Indonesia and Malaysia, some of the world’s oldest tropical forests are being cut down and replaced with oil palm plantations at a breakneck pace. Wiping forests high in biodiversity off the land for monoculture plantations causes numerous environmental problems, from the destruction of wildlife habitat to the rapid release of stored carbon, which contributes to global warming.

But deforestation is having another worrisome effect: an increase in the spread of life-threatening diseases such as malaria ...
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26
FEB
2016

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Environment, Health

Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Central America, Dengue fever, Gene, Hawaii (island), World Health Organization, Zika virus

Is Zika Virus Or The Tdap Vaccine Causing Birth Defects In Brazil?

The Zika virus has been known to infect people in Africa, South and Central America and Asia for more than 70 years without causing any birth defects.

The Brazilian government declared an emergency in December after 2,400 babieswere found to be born with shrunken heads and brain defects believed to be linked to mosquitoes carrying the Zika Virus. The number of babies born with the defects has been rising significantly since then.

But could there be a link between the introduction ...
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9
FEB
2016

0

Health, International News

American Type Culture Collection, Brazil, Central America, Congenital disorder, DPT vaccine, General Motors, Microcephaly, Oxitec, Rockefeller Foundation, Zika virus

Josh Hoxie – Affluenza: An Outrage in All Its Forms

Which is worse, letting a rich kid off easy for a heinous crime or allowing an ultra wealthy adult to drain public coffers through bribery? These two scenarios may seem completely unrelated, but they both illustrate the corrupting influence of modern inequality—treating those at the top differently than the rest of the country.

Consider the case of Ethan Couch. Ethan first made headlines in 2013 when at age 16 he drove his car drunk into a crowd of people in Texas, ...
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4
JAN
2016

0

Health

Austin, Border, Calgary, Central America, Josh Hoxie, Mexico, National Guard of the United States, Republican Party United States, Texas, United States, United States Border Patrol

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