JOH returns to Honduras
In mid-July, Donald Trump railed on primetime TV against alleged foreign interference in US presidential elections.
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Politics and current affairs in Latin America - especially Nicaragua
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Nicaragua banned US-sponsored coup leaders from elections, sparking corporate media meltdown
The original version of this piece appeared in The Grayzone.
Punishing Progress: Washington Targets Social Achievements of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
Written with Roger D. Harris
When Media Tell Us Who ‘Won’ a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions
Elections in Latin America are often controversial.
Under Trump, NED to continue weaponizing “democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba
The National Endowment for Democracy gets its project funding reinstated by the Trump administration
Despite setbacks, Latin America’s long history of anti-imperialism continues
A review of AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin
The Demise of USAID
Few Regrets in Latin America
Whether Biden or Trump, US’s Latin American Policy Will Still Be Contemptible
Migration, Drugs, and Tariffs
Development banker says US knew of plot to oust him over Nicaragua loans
Published in The Grayzone: https://thegrayzone.com/2025/01/22/development-banker-us-plot-nicaragua-loans/
How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for “Regime Change”
In the words of the United Nations, “human rights” range from “the most fundamental—the right to life—to those that make life worth living, such as the rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty.” These rights are supposed to be “inherent to us all.” But this lofty ambition has become distorted, not only by the UN itself but by the whole of what Alfred de Zayas calls