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The once stalwart funder of anti-Castro causes, subject to allegations of labor exploitation in the Dominican Republic, sugar magnate “Alfy” Fanjul is now investigating prospects in Cuba. The historical and political ironies are unmistakable.
Over more than a decade, the rise of the left in Latin American governance has led to remarkable advances. The United States has been antagonistic toward the new left governments, pursuing a bellicose foreign policy. So why has HRW so consistently paralleled U.S. positions and policies?
With legal title to their lands, Miskitu organizations now have more leverage in pursuing restitution and repatriation. At the same time, it is equally possible that the new land rights will make no difference at all to traffickers.
CONAMAQ, a federation of Bolivian highland indigenous peoples, has split into two parallel organizations after a bitter struggle. Is this the result of internal political conflict, or a government strategy to undermine opposition?
According to the CISPES electoral observation mission, which included delegates from the National Lawyers Guild, the American Association of Jurists and various U.S. universities, the electoral proceedings were calm and peaceful.
Most critics have failed to recognize the central role of neoliberalism in the Dominican Republic’s wave of anti-Black policies. The law has an underlying fear: the presence of the very Haitian migrants it depends on.
The color red bursts from the walls and from the clothes of hundreds of Salvadorans and Salvadoran-Americans who are gathered to welcome El Salvador’s Vice President, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, the former guerilla commander of the FMLN and this party’s candidate for president in next year’s elections.
The only thing missing from Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s speech at the UN General Assembly last month was “it still smells like sulfur.” These were the immortal words of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez in 2006.