PODCAST 30: Latin America is the front line of a global war on nature
Category: Haiti
Eastern promise
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A Cuban crucible of internationalism holds lessons for the left. Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns, Frances Peace Sullivan, 2025, University Press of Florida
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, North America, United States
Cry freedom
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Comment: Ireland knows a thing or two about anti-imperialism. Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard MP told the ¡Adelante! conference why its solidarity with Latin America is unshakeable
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Pirate empire
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Colonial history shows us how smuggling serves imperial designs. Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690, Juan José Ponce Vázquez, 2020, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Haiti, North America, United States
Trigger unhappy
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Is the narrative about cartel bloodshed in Mexico finally changing? Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border, Ieva Jusionyte, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Caribbean, Haiti, Mexico, North America, United States
The colour of deceit
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US motives for intervening in the Cuban war of independence were never based on the humanitarian goals of popular imagination. Review of Colonial Reckoning by Louis Pérez
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Europe, Haiti, International, North America, Puerto Rico, Spain, United States
The imperial frontier
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The Border Reader, eds Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza, 2023, Duke University Press
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, United States, Venezuela
Perpetual motion
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Latin American Literature in Transition, 1870–1930, edited by Fernando Degiovanni and Javier Uriarte, 2023, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay
Feria del Libro
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Green fog
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As the British Labour Party under Keir Starmer prepares for its annual conference next week, we ask: does it have a policy towards Latin America?
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela