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To all of NACLA's subscribers and supporters,
Thank you for you patience! Our much delayed January/February issue is now available online, and the hard copy magazine is on its way to print. As NACLA continues its process of hiring new staff, we will be getting back on track with our publishing schedule. Upcoming Reports include our in-depth coverage of Lula's legacy in Brazil, alternative analyses of Mexico's drug war crisis, Cuba's attempt to salvage its revolution, and much more. We'll also soon be rolling out a new Latin America-focused blog with daily updates at nacla.org. Stay tuned!
¡Golpistas! Coups and Democracy in the 21st Century
by NACLA
We have collected in this Report a series of articles analyzing these 21st-century coups in the Americas - in Venezuela (2002), Haiti (2004), and Honduras (2009) - against the backdrop of popular movements for democracy and economic justice. The fight to overcome neoliberalism in the region has produced not only left-leaning governments but, perhaps more significantly, a widespread, commonsensical respect among citizens for transparent, democratic norms and institutionality. Coups are seen as an extra-legal retrogression to a barbarous past. The dark days of the region's late-20th-century military dictatorships, which came to power through U.S.-sponsored coups, comprise a sinister legacy that continues to inform how leaders and social movements in the region frame current events. Coups, and the threat of coups, are still a part of the Latin American reality, even in the 21st century.
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Martial Law, Repression, and Remilitarization in Guatemala
by Simon Granovsky-Larsen
On February 8, Felix Cuc Xo, a community activist from Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, was beaten in front of his family and taken away by soldiers and police. His shadowy detention took place under the cover of Alta Verapaz’s martial law, which was decreed in December as an anti-narcotic operation. The remilitarization of an area hit hard by the country's armed conflict (that ended in 1996) is also quelling social movement organizing in the region.
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