Email Update: 3/30/2012

 


 

 

 

 

Dear NACLA friends,

Join us this week as we continue our retrospective of Central America with an online article by  John L. Hammond, sociology professor at the City University of New York and member of NACLA's editorial committee. He examines how his political awakening and activism has given him, us, a greater sense of geography:

"Even to many who paid attention to the rest of Latin America, Central America was terra incognita into the 1970s. As the Sandinista revolution heated up in Nicaragua, and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) launched offensives in El Salvador, I learned some of the names of people and movements, but I didn't really know where all these countries were.
       
I distinctly remember one night in the late 1970s when I pulled out the atlas and located them in the very small area that they occupied on the continental map. This was the beginning of my intense engagement with Central America, and there was much more to learn. As U.S. president Ronald Reagan said in December 1982, shortly after his first official trip to Latin America, "You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries."

For the full article, continue reading here.

Other Articles Online:
Kevin Edmonds: 
Guyana: Remembering Dr. Cheddi Jagan
Joseph Nevins: Immigrant Detention in the United States: Hope and Change, or More of the Same?
Nazih Richani: Deconstructing the Colombian Government's Latest Offensive Against the FARC
Fred Rosen: AMLO: No Resentment Here!
Emily Achtenberg: Bolivia: TIPNIS Communities Plan National March and Resistance to Government Consulta

Central America: Legacies of War
In the 1980s, Central America sank deep into political turmoil amid civil wars, brutal military dictatorships, and U.S. intervention. Three decades later, NACLA examines the legacies of war in Central America: Honduras is reliving its history of military coups, repression, and impunity. In Guatemala, a former dictator is charged with genocide. Across the region, former guerrillas and generals are in power, the military is again taking a disturbingly prominent role in policing, and communities are defending their land from powerful interests.

Greg Grandin: Turning the Tide Revisited: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
Annie Bird: Drugs and Business: Central America Faces Another Round of Violence
Kate Doyle: Justice in Guatemala
Sonja Wolf: Policing Crime in El Salvador
Esther Portillo-Gonzales: FMLN Reflections, 20 Years Later: An Interview with Nidia Díaz
Leticia Salomón: Honduras: A History That Repeats Itself
Michael Fox: Central American Solidarity, Then and Now: An Interview With Jenny Atlee
Dennis Rodgers: Nicaragua's Gangs: Historical Legacy or Contemporary Symptom?
Julio Yao: Legacies of the U.S. Invasion of Panama
Kirsten Weld: A Workshop Abandoned: WikiLeaks, U.S. Empire, and Central America
 
NACLA's 45th Benefit Gala Update
Join us on May 10, 2012, for drinks and antojitos in honor of distinguished activist and scholar Noam Chomsky, Javier Sicilia—leader of Mexico's Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, and political cartoonist Eduardo del Rio (Rius).

Gala tickets cost $150 per person. For more information about ticket packages and program book ads email arturo@nacla.org with the subject line "NACLA 45th Anniversary Gala."

NACLA Radio Podcast #1
Featuring content on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, and much more. You can now also subscribe to our NACLA podcast through Itunes.

NACLA's Digital Archive:
Don't forget to visit our archives and read the award-winning articles that have made the NACLA Report on the Americas the most reliable resource for progressive politics in the region. Subscribers and customers can now download PDFs of full issues!

Stay tuned for upcoming interviews, event announcements, and previews.

 


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