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U.S. "Democracy Promotion" in Honduras
by Dawn Paley
A set of policies adopted in January 2010 during the de facto presidency of Roberto Micheletti are now the basis of the goals for USAID's latest round of "democracy promotion" funding in Honduras. This will continue the long history of U.S. funding of the Honduran elite, the very players allegedly behind the June 2009 military coup that ousted former president Manuel Zelaya. What is cloaked as funding for democracy is likely to help these elites further consolidate their power, and serve as an impetus to push through neoliberal economic reforms that were stalled under Zelaya.
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150 Scholars Call on Georgetown to Fire Álvaro Uribe
Students are delivering an open letter to Georgetown University president John J. DeGioia today, signed by over 150 scholars, urging the university to reconsider its appointment of former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe as a visiting scholar. The letter objects to Uribe's ties to paramilitary groups, the scandal in which members of the Colombian military killed civilians but claimed they were guerrillas, corruption and human rights violations in his administration, manipulation of the judiciary, and a notorious wiretapping scandal.
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September/October - NACLA Report on the Americas
After Recognition: Indigenous Peoples Confront Capitalism
 Indigenous peoples across Latin America have taken a leading position in defending national sovereignty, democratic rights, and the environment. A renewed cycle of capitalist accumulation in the region centered on mining, hydrocarbon extraction, and agro-industrial monocultures has sparked the new round of indigenous resistance. Drawing on organizational and political legacies of previous decades, indigenous groups in the 1980s and 1990s grew and gained strength from an international arena in which governments were encouraged to recognize and promote cultural and minority rights. In this issue of the NACLA Report, we explore the contributions and creative possibilities of indigenous movements at a moment when indigenous politics has moved beyond this request for state recognition and inclusion.
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