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March 8: The Caribbean (Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, etc.), and Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Belize).
Emily Taylor, “Guatemalans Celebrate Return of ‘Democratic Spring’ as Potential Violence Threatens Transition,” in NACLA Report on the Americas website (August 25, 2023)
In terms of the content of each report, I am looking for two main points of discussion. First, you should devote the first half of the report to a summary of the main points in the article that you selected. To help you to address this issue, consider some of these questions: What is the main issue being discussed? (i.e. immigration, elections, education, environment, women’s issues, crime, etc.) Who are the main personalities mentioned in the article? (i.e. El Salvador president Nayib Bukele, President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, former President Trump, etc.) How does the issue affect the people of the country mentioned in the article? Does the issue have any connection with United States interests? What do you think could be the best solution to resolve this problem?
And for the second point of discussion, please analyze the article that you selected and present your point of view on the story. For example, how do you feel about the story? How did this article contribute to your understanding about modern Latin America? And what do you think about the author’s perspective on the article? How does this topic relate to contemporary political, economic or cultural themes in the United States today?
Here is a list of articles from the NACLA website pertaining to regions for the March 8 due date. Just pick any one article from this list for your March 8 review.
Cuba:
Cuba: An American History Review (Book Review)(Nov. 2021)Links to an external site.
Cuba Today: Homeland, People, and Sovereignty (July 2021)
Cuba’s New Family Code is a Window into the Political Ecosystem (Nov. 2022)Links to an external site.
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Cuban Memory Wars (Book Review) (May 2021) (Links to an external site.)
“Don’t Throw the Sofa out the Window” Discussing Protests in Cuba (Aug. 2021)
For Cuban Artists, Censure is the Norm (Jan. 2022)Links to an external site.
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Have You Heard, Comrade? The Socialist Revolution is Racist Too (Aug. 2021)
Hurricane Ian Highlights the Devastating Effects of the U.S. Blockade on Cuba (Nov. 2022)Links to an external site.
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J-11 in Cuba (July 2021)
More Than Six Decades of Sanctions on Cuba (Oct. 2022)Links to an external site.
On Cuba: Caricatures of the Left and the Absent Cuban People (Oct. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
Religious Conservatism is Shaping the Civil Liberties Debate in Cuba (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
The Damaging “Middle Ground” Stance on Cuba (Aug. 2021)
The Forgotten Victims of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Pact (Oct. 2022)Links to an external site.
The Perfect Spy Was a Cuban Agent (Book Review) (Jan. 2023)
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba (Book Review) (June 2022)
Using Cuba’s Protests as a Chance to Denounce the Left (Aug. 2021)
With Cubans Speaking Out, How Will the Left Respond? (July 2021)
Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (Book Review) (June 2023)Links to an external site.
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Dominican Republic:
Afro-Dominicanas Against Death (Jan. 2023)
Apartheid in the Caribbean (Sept. 2023)Links to an external site.
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“I Am the Darker Brother”: Michèle Stephenson’s “Stateless” Documentary (Apr. 2021)
Dominican Republic and Haiti at the Crossroads of the Massacre River (Oct. 2023)Links to an external site.
In the Dominican Republic, Language Barriers Complicate Life for Haitian Migrants (Nov. 2022)Links to an external site.
Making the Dominican Republic Great Again? (March 2022)
The Institutionalization of Anti-Haitianism in Dominican History and Education (Jan. 2023) (Links to an external site.)
Grenada:
Forward Ever: 40 Years on from “Bloody Sunday” and the U.S. Invasion of Grenada (Oct. 2023)Links to an external site.
Remembering Grenada’s Revolution Beyond Cold War Narratives (Sept. 2023)Links to an external site.
Haiti:
A Legacy of Canadian Intervention in Haiti, 20 Years On (Jan. 2023)Links to an external site.
After Moïse Assassination, Popular Sectors Must Lead the Way (July 2021)
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Anti-Blackness Knows No Borders and Neither Should Haitian Migrant Rights Advocacy (Sept. 2023) (Links to an external site.)
Fighting for Survival, Building for Power (Apr. 2021)
Guns, Gangs, and Neocolonialism in Haiti (July 2023)
Haiti as Empire’s Laboratory (Sept. 2023)Links to an external site.
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Haiti’s Earthquakes Require a Haitian Solution (Aug. 2021)
Remembering Joane Florvil, Victim of Global Anti-Blackness (Sept. 2021)Links to an external site.
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The Foreign Roots of Haiti’s “Constitutional Crisis” (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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The Political Anatomy of Haiti’s Armed Gangs (Apr. 2021)
To Save Haitian Lives, Global Health Leaders Call for Solidarity (Dec. 2021)Links to an external site.
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships (Book Review) (Sept. 2022)Links to an external site.
Why Haiti Advocacy Needs New Strategies (March 2022)Links to an external site.
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Jamaica:
The Predatory Perils of Cannabis Legalization in Jamaica (Sept. 2023)Links to an external site.
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Puerto Rico:
Another Hurricane Makes Clear the Urgent Need for Rooftop Solar in Puerto Rico (Sept. 2022)Links to an external site.
Celebrating 50 Years of El Comité-MINP (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
Embracing the Vaivén in Puerto Rican Reporting (Dec. 2021)
FEMA’s Quickly Depleting Funds Underline Why Puerto Rico Needs Energy Justice Now (Sept. 2023)
Protecting Puerto Rico’s Coastlines & Indigenous Heritage (July 2023)Links to an external site.
Puerto Rican Women Push the Boundaries of Latinx Art and Culture in New York City (July 2023)
Puerto Rico’s New Leftist Alliance Poses a Threat to US Imperialism (Dec. 2023)Links to an external site.
Serán las dueñas de la tierra (Book Review) (June 2022)Links to an external site.
The Devastating Costs of Puerto Rico’s Solar “Farms” (Feb. 2022)
Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone (Sept. 2021)Links to an external site.
Where is the State of Emergency? (June 2021) (Links to an external site.)
Trinidad and Tobago:
Toppling the Colonizers in Trinidad and Tobago (June 2021)
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Costa Rica:
Amid Inflation, Costa Rica Workers Face Longer Workdays and Cuts to Overtime (May 2023)Links to an external site.
Costa Rica: A Democracy on the Brink (Dec. 2021)Links to an external site.
Costa Rica’s Rush to the Right (Apr. 2022)Links to an external site.
Nicaraguan Migrants Face Uncertainty in Costa Rica (Dec. 2022)
The Myth of Demilitarization in Costa Rica (Jan. 2024)Links to an external site.
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El Salvador:
After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador (Book Review) (Feb. 2023)Links to an external site.
Alejandro Molina Lara Fought for Workers’ Rights in El Salvador and the United States (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
Bukele Responds to Avalanche of International Criticism: “The People Voted for This” (May 2021)
Bukele’s War Against the Past (Nov. 2023)Links to an external site.
El Salvador: Surfing in the “New Land of the Free?” (May 2023)Links to an external site.
El Salvador Arrests Prominent Anti-Mining Activists (Feb. 2023)Links to an external site.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Has Blood on His Hands (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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El Salvador’s Slide Toward Authoritarianism (Nov. 2022)
El Salvador’s State of Exception Turns One (Mar. 2023)
Freedom of Expression Under Attack in Bukele’s El Salvador (Jan. 2024)Links to an external site.
In El Salvador, Workers Fight to Protect Public Services (Aug. 2023)Links to an external site.
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Left Out of Bukele’s Bitcoin Decision, Salvadorans Face Deepening Inequality (July 2021)
No One is Safe in Bukele’s Gang War (June 2022)
Re-membering the Reign of God (Book Review) (Dec. 2022)
“Rompamos El Silencio” (May 2023)Links to an external site.
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Tell Mother I’m in Paradise (Review) (July 2022)Links to an external site.
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The Value of a Volcano (Nov. 2021)
After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador (Book Review)(Feb. 2023)Links to an external site.
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Underreported and Unpunished, Femicides in El Salvador Continue (March 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Guatemala:
25 Years After the Peace Accords, Democracy Weak in Guatemala (Jan. 2022)Links to an external site.
Anti-Mining Networks Support Land Defense Movements in Central America (Nov. 2022)
Communal Resistance and Land Theft Mark Lead up to Guatemala Elections (May 2023)Links to an external site.
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Dianna Ortiz, Survivor and Witness of the Guatemalan Genocide (1958-2021) (Feb. 2021)
Fighting for Food Sovereignty in Guatemala (June 2022)Links to an external site.
Guatemala on Trial: Maya Land Rights Case Reaches International Court (Feb. 2022)Links to an external site.
Guatemala Cracks Down on Q’eqchi’ Resistance in El Estor (Nov. 2021)Links to an external site.
Guatemala’s National Strike Demands Structural Change (Sept. 2021)
Guatemalans Celebrate Return of “Democratic Spring” as Potential Violence Threatens Transition (Aug. 2023)Links to an external site.
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Historical Memory in the Digital Age (June 2021)
Hydrocracy at the Center of Guatemala City’s Elections (June 2023)Links to an external site.
In Guatemala, Ex-Paramilitaries Face Trial for Wartime Rape of Indigenous Women (Jan. 2022)
In Guatemala, Will Old Foreign Policies Bring New Results? (Aug. 2021)
Land Conflicts Targeting Indigenous Communities Intensify in Northern Guatemala (Dec. 2022)
Lawfare Casts Shadow Over Paradigm-Shifting Guatemalan Election (Aug. 2023)
Seeds of Life: Guatemala Beyond Elections (Jan. 2024)Links to an external site.
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Textures of Terror (Book Review) (Oct. 2023)Links to an external site.
The Lives of Those Who Died (Oct. 2022)
“The People Are Willing to Continue” (Jan. 2024)Links to an external site.
The Shadows of the Past Hang over Guatemala’s 2023 Elections (June 2023)
Thelma Cabrera: “We Are Fighting for a Plurinational State and Well-being of the Peoples” (June 2023)
“They Tried to Wipe Us Out. We Rise Up to Seek Justice.” (Jan. 2024)Links to an external site.
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“We Are Here by Force”: Maya Ixil Activists Fight for Asylum and Justice (May 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Honduras:
A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
Arbitrary Justice: The Fate of Environmental Defenders in Honduras (Sept. 2021)
Combating Narcos or Criminalizing Indigeneity? (Jan. 2022) (Links to an external site.)
For Murdered Honduran Organizer Berta Cáceres, “Any Injustice Was Her Battle” (June 2020) (Links to an external site.)
Honduran Women Leaders in the Crosshairs (Jan. 2023)Links to an external site.
Hondurans in the U.S. Fear Vote Suppression in Sunday Elections (Nov. 2021)Links to an external site.
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Honduras: Between the Old Elite and a New Democracy (Nov. 2021)Links to an external site.
Links to an external site.In Honduras, Victory of Leftist Woman President Rests on Other Women’s Struggles (Jan. 2022)
United States Struggles to Pick a Side in Upcoming Honduran Elections (Sept. 2021)Links to an external site.
Verdict Forthcoming for Military Intelligence Officer in Murder of Berta Cáceres (July 2021)
“We Don’t Even Know Where the Remains of our Loved Ones Are” (Aug. 2022) (Links to an external site.)
Nicaragua:
Crisis in Nicaragua: Is the Ortega-Murillo Government Leftist? (Part I) (Aug. 2021)
Indigenous Miskitu Migrants Are Fleeing for their Lives (Jan. 2024)Links to an external site.
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements (Book Review) (Feb. 2023)Links to an external site.
LGBTQ Resistance and Political Protest in Nicaragua (Sept. 2021)Links to an external site.
Nicaragua: Chronicle of an Election Foretold (Nov. 2021)Links to an external site.
Nicaragua’s Elections Are a Referendum on Social Investment Policies (Nov. 2021)Links to an external site.
Nicaraguan Government Outlaws Feminist Groups Serving Vulnerable People (June 2022)Links to an external site.
Ortega’s Developmentalism Is Based on the “Popular Economy”—But What Does that Mean? (Dec. 2021)Links to an external site.
Ortega’s World, the Flesh and the Gold (Dec. 2021)Links to an external site.
Oscar René Vargas is Nicaragua’s Latest Prisoner of Conscience (Dec. 2022)Links to an external site.
Political Prisoners to Ortega’s Narrative (May 2022)Links to an external site.
Sanctions May Impoverish Nicaraguans, but Likely Will Not Change their Vote (Aug. 2021)
The Latin American Left Turns Its Back on Dictatorship (Apr. 2023)Links to an external site.
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Why Did Daniel Ortega Imprison His Former Comrades? (June 2021) (Links to an external site.)
Panama:
A Perilous Journey Along the Darién Gap (Oct. 2021)Links to an external site.
After Landmark Territorial Win, Naso People of Panama Look to the Future (Feb. 2021)
Confronting a Century of Global Change in Rural Panama (Book Review) (March 2022)
Panama Protests: A Model for Pushing Back Extractive Capitalism (Dec. 2023)Links to an external site.
Panama’s Massive Environmental Awakening (Dec. 2023)Links to an external site.
