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US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial killings.
A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.
Covert ops and military buildup in the Caribbean suggest Washington is eying a regime change. But are conditions ripe in Venezuela?
The hard-line approch to law enforcement risks perpetuating the lawlessness it is trying to stamp out.
Javier Milei has emerged as the surprising winner from Argentina’s midterms.
A common US-centric narrative holds that the Cuban missile crisis ended when Washington stood firm against the Soviets. But that story ignores a whole continent.
Banning abortion instantly oppresses a huge swath of society. And enforcing abortion bans begets a police state − an upside for dictators from Mussolini to Ortega.
Puerto Ricans like Bad Bunny complicate the administration’s campaign to portray America as an English-speaking, homogenous nation.
Venezuelan opposition leader is the latest in a long list of controversial laureates.
The Venezuelan opposition leader was forced to go into hiding in 2024 after being banned form standing in that year’s election.
Nearly 150 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2024, mainly in Latin America.
A direct confrontation between the US military and Latin America’s drug cartels is edging closer.
Aside from the weight of US policy, the Cuban state has become increasingly sclerotic and unable to meet the growing demands of its population.
Paraguay is the Latin American country most strongly aligned with the foreign policy of the Trump administration.
US military buildup in the Caribbean has prompted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to reciprocate with military drills.
After a hiatus, the World Bank returned to dam building, but has anything changed?
The Brazilian president said that ‘it is worrying to equate crime with terrorism,’ in direct reference to Donald Trump’s attempt to equate Latin American organized crime groups with terrorist organizations.
A sharp sell-off of the peso has seen President Javier Milei seek a financial lifeline from the United States. Washington seems happy to help out.
President Claudia Sheinbaum walks a fine line between appeasing Washington and not alienating voters at home.
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