Latin America & Caribbean

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“Having lost eighteen of nineteen elections, their chances of taking power or replacing the government through electoral channels …are virtually nil, and so what I think they’ve decided on as a strategy is to create chaos, insecurity, and especially engage…

Venezuelan Riots

Inspired by the US-backed anti-government protests in Venezuela, El Salvador’s oligarchs are preparing to follow the same strategy.

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Most of the aid money went to donor countries’ businesses, government agencies and NGOs, as usual. International “aid” is a well-known capitalist scheme aimed at developing lucrative markets for foreign capital.

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Contrary to the rosy economic picture that the World Bank and the IMF have tried to paint over the past decade, Brazil’s growing discontent with the neoliberal model is now on full display.

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Venezuela: The Capitalists Still Control the State and the Bulk of the Economy By Arlene Eisen, June 24, 2014
Teachers, Unions, Students Build Trinational Movement Against Neoliberal Education By Roshan Bliss, June 24, 2014
Residents simulate bad service at a public hospital during a protest against the 2014 World Cup, organized by non-governmental organization (NGO) Rio de Paz (Rio of Peace) at the Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro
Soccer Is Democratic. The World Cup Is Oligarchy. By Nathalie Baptiste, June 23, 2014
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How the “International Community” Rigged the 2010 Elections in Haiti By Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 19, 2014
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Guatemalans Suing Canadian Mining Company Tahoe Resources for Violence and Repression By MiningWatch Canada, June 18, 2014
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Fidel Castro and the Cuban Five: “Good Terrorism” As A Weapon Of US Hegemony By Chandra Muzaffar, June 16, 2014
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Brazil’s Olympics and World Cup: Mega-Events and the Threat to Public Welfare By David Swanson, June 15, 2014
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Brazil: A World Soccer Cup for Corporations By Marta Molina, June 14, 2014
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On Opening Day of the World Cup, Protests continue in Brazil By Rafael Azul, June 13, 2014
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‘Need Food, not Football’: Brazilian Graffiti Art Expresses Outrage Over World Cup By RT, June 12, 2014
Brazil on Strike: Class Struggle and the World Cup By Sabrina Fernandes, June 12, 2014
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Race, Class and the World Cup in Brazil By Mike LaSusa, June 11, 2014
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The Prospects and Problems of 21st Century Socialism in the US By Danny Haiphong, June 11, 2014
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Brazilian Workers Clash with Police on Eve of World Cup By Rafael Azul, June 10, 2014
Independent Media Delivers Truth and Accountability
The Hypocrisy of Human Rights Watch By Keane Bhatt, June 10, 2014
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Destabilization in Venezuela: Opposition Figures Face Allegations of Conspiracy – U.S. Government Possibly Involved By Ewan Robertson, June 09, 2014
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Haiti Nine Years Post-Coup and Canada’s Black Gold By Michael Welch, Roger Annis, Brendan Hayley, and Cynthia McKinney, June 07, 2014
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Imperialism’s Coup d’Etat against Democracy and the People of Haiti By Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya, June 07, 2014
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Haiti’s Struggle for Freedom: US Imperialism, MINUSTAH and the Overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide By Timothy Alexander Guzman, June 06, 2014
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Ecuador to Transfer More Than Half its Gold Reserves to Goldman Sachs in Exchange for “Liquidity” By Michael Krieger, June 05, 2014
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UK Aid Money Used by Contractor to Build Houses for the Wealthy in El Salvador By Fatima Hansia, June 05, 2014
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GMO Agriculture and Dow AgroSciences’ Genetically Modified Soyabeans: Waging War on Peasants By Grain, June 04, 2014
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Days Before Obama Announced CO2 Rule, Exxon Awarded Gulf of Mexico Oil Leases By Steve Horn, June 04, 2014
Elections in Brazil: US Covert Intelligence Operations in Support of "Democracy"
Brazil: Workers Struggle Trumps Sports Spectacle By Prof. James Petras, June 03, 2014
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Political Destabilization in Venezuela and the Western Media’s Double Standard By Salim Lamrani, June 01, 2014
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Cracking the US Economic Blockade of Cuba By Prof. Tim Anderson, May 31, 2014
VIDEO: Wisconsin Protests: Farmers Fight Back
How Global Agri-Business Destroys Farming By Colin Todhunter, May 30, 2014
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Challenging “All Forms of Injustice”? Who is the “Real Pope” Francis I? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and James Corbett, May 29, 2014
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“Washington’s Pope”? Who is Pope Francis I? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 28, 2014
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U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long before September 1970 Election By Peter Kornbluh, May 26, 2014
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Separatism and Empire Building in the 21st Century By Prof. James Petras, May 22, 2014
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U.S. Court of Appeals Joins the CIA’s Cover-Up of its Bay of Pigs Disaster By The National Security Archive, May 22, 2014
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The North American Security Framework. Expanded Trilateral Defense Cooperation By Dana Gabriel, May 22, 2014
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Terrorism in Venezuela and Its “Regime Change” Accomplices By Steve Ellner, May 22, 2014
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NSA Records and Stores Content of All Phone Calls in Two Countries By Eric London, May 21, 2014
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Cuban Five: A Prisoner Exchange that Could Improve Relations Between Cuba and the United States By Salim Lamrani, May 15, 2014
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Rights of Mexican Workers By Richard Roman and Edur Velasco, May 11, 2014
How Washington Uses Social Media to Topple Governments and Manipulate Public Opinion By Global Research News, May 11, 2014
Cocaine, Heroin, Cannabis, Ecstasy: How Big is the Global Drug Trade? By Global Research News, May 08, 2014
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CIA Front, USAID, “Spreading Democracy”, Gearing Up in Ukraine – Suharto II? By Scott Creighton, May 08, 2014
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Were Top Managers at Neslté Connected to the Murder of a Colombian Union Activist? By Maddy French, May 05, 2014
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Hands Off Venezuela! Right-wing Destabilization Campaign, Seaks to Seize State Power By Susan Spronk, May 04, 2014
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Labor Rights: Persecution of Public and Private Sector Union Activists in Haiti By Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 01, 2014
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Haiti: Battle Over Who Will Umpire the Next Elections By Kim Ives, May 01, 2014
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Former Director of Venezuelan Intelligence Agency Shot Dead in Caracas By Joseph Fitsanakis, April 30, 2014
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Kerry, Obama, Putin: The Fool, the Demagogue, and the Former KGB Colonel By Edward S. Herman, April 30, 2014
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Online Mass Surveillance: Protecting Privacy and Human Rights on the Internet? Is Brazil taking the Lead? By Nathalie Van Raemdonck, April 29, 2014
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Agents of Destabilization in Venezuela: The Dirty Hand of the National Endowment for Democracy By Eva Golinger, April 26, 2014
Ecuador orders US Military Officers to Leave the Country By Prensa Latina, April 26, 2014
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Bolivia’s New Mining Law By Kirsten Francescone, April 21, 2014
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Growing Protests in Haiti: Thousands Demonstrate to Demand the Departure of President Martelly and MINUSTAH By Kim Ives, April 18, 2014
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Haiti “Reconstruction”: Land Grabbing, Privatization and Occupation By Ezili Dantò, April 17, 2014
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Former CIA Affiliate Tells All: The CIA Role Behind the Anti-Government Protests in Venezuela By Global Research News, April 14, 2014
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Undocumented Migrants in Venezuela Have More Rights than US Citizens in the US By Tamara Pearson, April 13, 2014
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U.S. Colonialism and Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Crisis By Victor M. Rodriguez, April 11, 2014
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Monsanto’s Glyphosate Herbicide should be Banned, Brazil’s public prosecutor says By Global Research News, April 10, 2014
Financial Tyranny in Puerto Rico By Timothy Alexander Guzman, April 10, 2014
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USAID Subversion in Latin America Not Limited to Cuba By Dan Beeton, April 09, 2014
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Social Media as a Foreign Policy Tool. Failed Cuban “Twitter” Designed By U.S. Government Contractors By Pratap Chatterjee, April 09, 2014
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The CIA’s Plan to Create a “Destabilizing Student Opposition in Venezuela” By Global Research News, April 06, 2014
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Social Media and the Destabilization of Cuba: USAID’s Secret “Cuban Twitter” Intended to Stir Unrest By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 05, 2014
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“Cuban Twitter” Affair Exposes USAID as Instrument of Regime-Change By Bill Van Auken, April 05, 2014
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Haiti: Thousands Demonstrate Calling for End of UN Occupation and Resignation of President and Prime Minister By Thomas Péralte, April 02, 2014
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Street Violence and the Political Destabilization of Venezuela. US Sponsored “Color Revolution” By Franck Gaudichaud, April 02, 2014
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Another Color Revolution? The Deceptive Use of the Phrase “Peaceful Protests” in Venezuela By Steve Ellner, March 29, 2014
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Haiti: Peasants are Expropriated and Peaceful Protesters Brutalized for Tourist Development By Kim Ives, March 28, 2014
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Ukraine, Crimea and Venezuela The Power of Peace can Move Mountains By Peter Koenig, March 28, 2014
THE PENTAGON'S "COUNTERINSURGENCY WAR" ON LATIN AMERICA : Colombia, America 's "Military Launchpad"
Twin Cities Anti-War Committee Exposes U.S. War on Colombia By Global Research News, March 25, 2014
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Color Revolutions: The Strategy of the Venezuelan Opposition and How it Works By Steve Ellner, March 25, 2014
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Venezuela: Defeating Fascism Before it’s too Late By Prof. James Petras, March 23, 2014
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Violence and Terror: The Ukrainian and Colombian Road to Empire Building By Prof. James Petras, March 19, 2014
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Gold Mining Company Wages $301 Million Lawsuit Against El Salvador By MiningWatch Canada, March 18, 2014
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Leftist Wins Presidency in El Salvador By Cherrene Horazuk, March 17, 2014
Venezuelan Government: “We Denounce you as an Assassin of the Venezuelan people, Mr. Kerry” By Global Research News, March 15, 2014
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Regime Change: First Ukraine, then Venezuela, then Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil . . . China? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 14, 2014
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Washington Sanctioning the World: US Government Threatens Sanctions against Venezuelan Officials By Jake Johnston, March 07, 2014
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War on Drugs and Media Disinformation – “El Chapo” Arrested—Why Now? By Douglas Lucas, February 28, 2014
Haiti: Anatomy of a Coup D’Etat Global Research News Hour Episode 56 By Michael Welch, Jean Saint-Vil, and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 28, 2014
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Haiti: Commemoration of February 29, 2004 Coup d’Etat: Canada Owes Haiti More Than Apology, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, New Glasgow NS By Jean Saint-Vil, February 28, 2014
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Protest Coverage in Haiti and Venezuela Reveals U.S. Media Hypocrisy By Kevin Edmonds, February 27, 2014