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WEBAyotzi Vive, La Lucha Sigue. NACLA. September 26, 2024. On the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students in Iguala, Mexico, this collection of NACLA coverage contextualizes the event—and the government’s ongoing role in obscuring the truth.
A Spark of Hope: The Ongoing Lessons of the Zapatista ... - NACLA
WEBDec 21, 2022 · January 1, 2019 marked 25 years since the Zapatistas captured the world’s imagination with their brief but audacious uprising to demand justice and democracy for Indigenous peasants in southern Mexico. While never formally laying down its weapons, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN ...
Forward Ever: 40 Years on from the End of the Revolution and
WEBOct 24, 2023 · When an intra-party conflict broke out, leading to the killing of revolutionary leader Bishop and other victims on October 19, 1983, the Reagan administration seized the pretext to invade. On October 25, 1983, thousands of U.S. troops landed on the island. This year, Grenada commemorates both 50 years as an independent nation and 40 years since ...
U.S. Policy Toward Central America Continues Legacy of ... - NACLA
WEBApr 28, 2021 · Para leer este artículo en español, haz clic aqui.. This piece was edited prior to the start of the GSOC, UAW Local 2110 strike.. I had just arrived to Ilom, Chajul in June 2019 when I heard the news that the Minister of Governance had signed an agreement with the Trump administration to make Guatemala a safe third country. I felt disoriented. Speaking with an elder from Ilom, he told me ...
Clinton, NAFTA and the Politics of U.S. Trade | NACLA
WEBKaren Hansen-Kuhn. September 25, 2007. Clinton has taken some small steps to mollify trade unionists and environmentalists, but the primary focus of his trade policy has been to facilitate investment by U.S. corporations overseas. As the wars in Central America drew to a close at the end of the 1980s, U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America ...
Maquiladoras and the Exploitation of Migrants on the Border
WEBOct 3, 2019 · O n August 5, 2019, the Mexican federal government and INDEX, the maquiladora business association, inaugurated the “Leona Vicario” migrant center in Ciudad Juárez. Housed in a former maquiladora— often foreign-run, export-led manufacturing plants —the center is the first of several that will be opened along the northern Mexican border to serve individuals and families that the United ...
Keeping 2001 Open: Argentina’s Uprising 20 Years Later
WEBDec 18, 2021 · Liz Mason-Deese. On December 19 and 20, 2001, a popular rebellion erupted in Argentina. With the economy in freefall, people took to the streets with a clear refrain: “ Que se vayan todos. ” The government soon defaulted on its massive debt, and many new experiments in horizontal organizing and grassroots economic alternatives came to …
Legacies of the U.S. Invasion of Panama - NACLA
WEBOn December 20, 1989, former president George H.W. Bush ordered the invasion of Panama. The U.S. 82nd Airborne division pummeled Panama City from the air, as U.S. soldiers from the 193rd Brigade clashed in the streets with troops from the Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) and the Dignity Battalions, a militia of workers and campesinos.
Reconstructing Race: Racism, Culture and Mestizaje in Latin …
WEBReconstructing Race: Racism, Culture and Mestizaje in Latin America. Tweet. Marisol de la Cadena. September 25, 2007. One of the most puzzling, disconcerting phenomena that the non-native visitor confronts while traveling in Latin America is the relative ease with which pervasive and very visible discriminatory practices coexist with the denial ...
Remembering Grenada’s Revolution Beyond Cold War Narratives
WEBAn internationalist critique of empire demands a contestation of empire’s memory. On March 13, 1979, five years after Grenada’s independence from Britain, the New Jewel Movement (NJM) mounted an armed attack against the increasingly erratic and authoritarian Prime Minister Eric Gairy.