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Extractive Companies Privatize Repression and Counterinsurgency in the Americas
As resistance to fossil fuels grows, private militaries have become a lucrative business, especially in Latin America.
US Deportations Are Exporting COVID-19 to Latin America and the Caribbean
There have been over 100 cases of deported migrants testing positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in their countries.
COVID-19 Will Kill More People Worldwide Due to Water Shortages
You can’t wash the virus off your hands if you don’t have water.
Global Mining Corporations Have a Friend in the New Guatemalan Government
President Giammattei has already declared martial law in two municipalities opposed to resource extraction.
IMF Backs Tax Reform Bill in Ecuador That Would Further Austerity
After the Argentina debacle, the IMF endorsed weakening capital controls in Ecuador.
Morales’s Coup Fits a Long Pattern in Bolivian History
The U.S. government has opposed Evo Morales since he came to power in 2006, but U.S. meddling goes back even further.
US Is Again Complicit in an Illegal Coup, This Time in Bolivia
This coup follows a sordid tradition of U.S. meddling in the political and economic affairs of Latin America.
Bolivia’s Interim Government Moves to Roll Back Morales’s 21st Century Socialism
The naked racism of the neoliberal white elite coup plotters is on full display for the world to see.
Petroleum Is at the Heart of Ecuador’s Anti-Austerity Protests
Indigenous groups say Ecuador's reliance on extractive industries violates their constitutional rights.
Abusive North American Companies Pay Off Latin American Police to Harass Critics
Extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers.