Criticisms of the United States and OAS underlined the need to revive regional integration initiatives independent of U.S. influence.
When political tensions run high and misinformation proliferates, there’s no better way to get a clear view than with your own eyes.
Sanctions and other forms of economic warfare have long caused serious harm for countries on the receiving end of Washington’s efforts to impose its policy agenda. Could a progressive U.S. administration marshal economic power at the service of people, not capital?
The Trump administration’s foreign policy toward Venezuela includes supporting a boycott of Sunday’s elections in Venezuela, hinting at the possibility of a coup, and enacting harmful economic sanctions, with consequences for democracy in the country beset by poverty and unrest.
U.S. support for a corrupt election continues the country’s history of obstructing Honduran democracy.
Militarizing security, deregulating markets, and dismantling labor rights isn’t the solution.
The Obama administration has expanded its financing of Mexican and Central American military forces—many of whom committed the mass killing and torture of political opponents and indigenous communities only two decades prior.