Latin America

Sputnik – December 28, 2017 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, sentenced to 25 years in prison for corruption and crimes against humanity, including ordering massacres by death squads, was pardoned by incumbent President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on December 24, prompting a heated debate and a wave of dissatisfaction among Peruvians. “This measure does not solve the [country’s] main problems and does not lead to the […]

José Manuel Zelaya Rosales •  December 22, 2017 People of the United States: For the past century, the owners of the fruit companies called our country “Banana Republic” and characterized our politicians as “cheaper than a mule” (as in the infamous Rolston letter). Honduras, a dignified nation, has had the misfortune of having a ruling class […]

By James Petras | Axis of Logic | December 20, 2017 Introduction Clearly the pendulum has swung to the right in the past few years. Numerous questions arise. What kind of right? How far right? How did they gain power? What is their appeal? How sustainable are the right wing regimes? Who are their international […]

Press TV – December 18, 2017 In Honduras, incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez has been declared the winner of last month’s disputed presidential election after a partial recount, with the opposition candidate rejecting the results and calling for fresh protests. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal said Sunday after the official recount that Hernandez has won with 42.95 […]

Photo: Paul Singer By Eli Clifton | LobeLog | December 13, 2017 On Tuesday, Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of The New York Times to celebrate last week’s announcement that Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, would face […]

Garden next to church in El Mozote where hundreds of child victims lie buried. El Salvador Perspectives | December 10, 2017 Thirty-six years ago, from December 10-12, 1981, the armed forces of El Salvador massacred hundreds of children in the town of El Mozote and surrounding communities. Last week El Salvador’s government divulged the results of […]

teleSUR | December 10, 2017 Mexican Mayor Jose Santos Hernandez was killed on Friday afternoon, the third murder of its kind this month. The other two murders took place in Veracruz. Officials said gunmen intercepted Santos’ car, forced him from the vehicle – in which he was traveling with family – and killed him. He […]

By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim | Venezuelanalysis | December 8, 2017 Venezuela’s voting system remains one of the most reliable in the world, an international group of electoral experts said Thursday. The country’s electronic voting system boasts some of the world’s best checks and balances, and is both “safe and reliable”, according to Nicanor Moscoso, the head […]

teleSUR | December 2017 The main opposition parties in Honduras independently submitted requests to annul the results of the Nov. 26 presidential election, which they consider fraudulent and skewed in favor of President Juan Orlando Hernández. Salvador Nasralla, the leader of the Alliance of Opposition Against the Dictatorship, called on the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) […]

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner teleSUR | December 7, 2017 An Argentine judge has ordered that former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner be put in pretrial detention. Federal judge Claudio Bonadio alleges that Fernandez committed crimes against the state in trying to “conceal” the possible involvement of five Iranian officials in Argentina […]