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Colombia Thousands of people took to the streets in Bogota and in more than 100 other municipalities around Colombia on…

March 29, 2016

¿Qué nos enseña la crisis brasileña?

Olmedo Beluche es un sociólogo panameño. Una crisis política enorme se cierne sobre ese gigante que es Brasil. Una investigación…

March 29, 2016

In Honduras, ‘Berta did not die, she multiplied’

March 24 -- It has been three weeks since the assassination of beloved Indigenous leader and environmentalist activist Berta Cáceres…

March 25, 2016

Zika spreads north as new evidence links virus to neurological disorders

As the Zika-carrying mosquito, Aedes aegypti, hits Puerto Rico, new evidence reinforces the disease’s link to two neural disorders, microcephaly…

March 25, 2016

U.S. sanctions aim to starve Zimbabwe into submission

President Barack Obama’s administration, utilizing the Office of Foreign Assets Control, announced on March 2 the extension, for another year,…

March 25, 2016

Women and the Nicaraguan Revolution

Thousands of women fighters transformed gender roles within the context of the Nicaraguan Revolution and the Sandinista National Liberation Front…

March 24, 2016

Hillary Clinton has blood on her hands

On March 15, just days after the assassination of Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, news surfaced that one of her comrades,…

March 23, 2016

U.S. atop NATO’s chain of command

March 15 -- There is a new supreme allied commander in Europe, U.S. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, chosen according to…

March 23, 2016

Palestine supporters protest AIPAC

By David Card and Colleen Gillan Washington, D.C. -- The American Israel Public Affairs Committee held its annual conference in…

March 22, 2016

17 years after war — Yugoslavia again protesting NATO

On March 24, 1999, the U.S. led its European NATO allies in a 78-day bombing campaign targeting Serbia in order…

March 22, 2016