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Canada: A Late but Eager Partner in Policing the Caribbean
February 2, 2012
Since 2006 Canadian Forces have participated in numerous counter-narcotics missions in the Caribbean basin called Operation Caribbe, as part of the wider U.S. Joint Interagency Task Force-South.
Discussing Domestic Violence in the Caribbean
January 26, 2012
When crime and the Caribbean is uttered in the same sentence, a reference to the drug trade is unfortunately not far behind.
Fred
Rosen
July 26, 2011
Historian Lorenzo Meyer has commented (on the talk show Primer Plano) that no An army street patrol Credit: Jorge Aranapresident since the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution has used the military to maintain domestic order as systematically and as intensely as Felipe Calderón. Calderón’s war on...
Nazih
Richani
July 25, 2011
Striking Oil Workers. (EFE/Luis Alfredo Zapata)Last week, in perhaps the largest recent strike in Colombia, 10,000 workers walked out of several multinational oil companies in the Department of Meta. The strikes came after Montajes J.M.—a subcontractor for the Spanish corporation CEPSA—fired 1,100...
Michael
Fox
July 24, 2011
Howard Campbell (academics.utep.edu)
By NACLA
In the most recent issue of NACLA, anthropologist Howard Campbell examines how Ciudad Juárez became the world’s most violent city after Mexican President Felipe Calderón deployed thousands of soldiers and federal police to fight the cartels....
Michael
Fox
July 22, 2011
(credit: July 26 Coalition)
By NACLA
On Saturday, July 23, the July 26 Coalition will host an anniversary celebration in New York City of the Fidel Castro-led assault on the Moncada Barracks in Cuba. On July 26, 1953, Castro and other Cuban rebels launched the popular movement that would...
Emily
Achtenberg
July 22, 2011
As El Salvador struggles with widespread violence and a sluggish economy, polls from San Salvador appear to show President Mauricio Funes’s approval ratings plummeting—from 83% last March to 41% in June. But on a recent visit to San José Las Flores, deep in the mountains of Chalatenango, members of...
Michael
Fox
July 21, 2011
By Michael Fox
Caravan at the border. (Credit: A. Mychal Johnson)On July 20, a caravan of over 100 people crossed the U.S.-Mexican border, carrying 100 tons of humanitarian aid on its way to Cuba. This is the 22nd aid caravan to Cuba organized by the Interreligious organization,...