PODCAST 20: Another current of hot air is flowing from the South to North Atlantic
Tag: Imperialism
Backtracking on Bukele
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Biden’s policy reversal towards El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ exposes the cynical emptiness of the empire’s democratic vocation, writes Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, North America, United States
Two books on Nicaragua
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Surviving the onslaught
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How did a tiny Central American country besieged by the US get the better of the empire? Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War, Eline van Ommen, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Central America, Europe, International, Nicaragua, North America, United States
The DEA has attacked López Obrador: should we believe it?
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It’s impossible not to read this episode as an assault by a section of the DEA on the López Obrador government, writes Carlos A Pérez Ricart
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Noboa’s Faustian bargain
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The bloody fingerprints of the US and Israel are all over the security clampdown by Ecuador’s new president—posing awkward questions about the country’s spiral into violence. The LONG READ by Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Ecuador, North America, South America, United States
Lessons in decolonisation
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Education is key to Indigenous progress in Bolivia—and the racist, US-backed white elite cannot turn the tide. Review: The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia, by Brooke Larson
Categories: Bolivia, South America
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
America’s useful idiot
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In their hurry to get rich quick in Essequibo, Guyana’s elites are blindly handing the keys of their country to the US
Categories: Europe, Guyana, International, North America, South America, United Kingdom, 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