Note: After a seven-year battle, this victory of the Peaceful Resistance La Puya over a specious claim for damages from U.S. mining company KCA is a win for the affected Guatemalan communities,
After a 100 years out of favour, imperialism is back. A century ago, my own nation, Ireland, managed to wade through blood, bullets, mud and death to tear itself out of the
Every time I say “He wouldn’t go that far”, he goes farther. All bets are off. Donald Trump has demonstrated no respect for human life or international law. The United States government
Latin America is on high alert, especially among the United States’ closest neighbors–the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. Since Sept. 2 when the Trump government launched a campaign of blowing small ships
The World in Focus | Analysis column The acts of aggression and interference in the Western Hemisphere since Donald Trump took office in January this year aim to destroy the sovereignty of countries in
The U.S. seized a Venezuelan oil tanker on Dec. 9, just over three months since the first U.S. strike on Venezuelan boats alleged to be transporting drugs on Sept. 2, but opposition
El mundo en foco | columna de análisis Donald Trump had a terrible week. On Nov. 5, his party suffered a crushing defeat in state and local elections in six states, revealing the loss
The World in Focus | Analysis column On Oct. 10, Dina Boluarte was removed from the presidency for “permanent moral incapacity”, a legal concept found in Article 113 of the Peruvian Constitution that serves
El mundo en foco | Columna de análisis As Donald Trump’s administration takes blatant interventionist stance in our region, the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Claudio Castro, a member of Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party,
The world in focus | Analysis column President Donald Trump’s megalo-maniacal and warmongering spirit in foreign and domestic politics was on full display at two important events recently– his speech at the