Category: Democracies

Fraud in Honduras and the Future of Fair Elections

December 4, 2017

If we allow this setback in Honduras, not only will the Honduran people suffer, it will embolden anti-democratic forces around the world. With key elections coming up next year in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico, it’s vitally important not to allow the right to establish a precedent of successful fraud.

On the Border, Small Farmers Tackle Big Issues of Migration, Climate Change, Food Policy

November 20, 2017

Ciudad Juarez on the Chihuahua-Texas border has historically been a nexus of migration and global capital flows. Now that the presidency of Donald Trump has revived international debates on both, the international small farmers’ organization, Via Campesina, gathered from around the world there in early November to examine the connections between low-wage work, migration and the environment.

To Mexico from Guatemala, With Love

November 16, 2017

The Mexico-Guatemala relationship, its roots and the culture that unites these two countries. Mexico is part of the social memory of Guatemala and thousands of small and medium family businesses located in the highlands of Guatemala are due to the permanent commercial relationship that has existed with Mexico.

Opioid crisis in the US

November 15, 2017

The history of this crisis has illustrative elements of the political manipulation of this tragedy, on the one hand, and the absence of scruples of the pharmaceutical companies and the lack of ethics of many doctors, on the other.

‘Forced Disappearance is a Crime of Terror’: Ariel Dulitzky

October 10, 2017

Ariel Dulitzky, Argentine lawyer, University of Texas Law School Professor and former member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, in an exclusive interview to Americas Program on Operation Condor, its influence in current operations, and today’s wave of forced disappearances in the context of the war on drugs.