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  •  | Incas corn diversity | MR Online

    Canada’s steadfast support for Big Agriculture’s assault on Mexican biodiversity

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on November 10, 2023 by Sameer Gupta and Armaan Johal (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Nov 14, 2023)

    Although Mexico has maintained a ban on genetically modified (GM) corn since the 1990s, the move by Mexican President Andres Manuel Luiz Obrador (AMLO) in 2020 to eventually ban the import of GM corn in order to promote domestic cultivation of native varieties has threatened to spark a trade war with the United States.

  •  | Photo Creative Commons | MR Online

    U.S. moves to curtail China’s economic investment in the Caribbean

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on July 30, 2023 by Tamanisha J. John (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Sep 18, 2023)

    On March 8, 2023, General Laura J. Richardson of the United States (U.S.) Southern Command gave testimony at a congressional hearing wherein she issued a warning to U.S. lawmakers about the expansion of Chinese influence in the Caribbean that were at odds with purported U.S. interests in the region.

  •  | Mobilization in Caracas December 16 2022 to Free Alex Saab Credit VTV | MR Online

    Saab hearing proves he deserves diplomatic immunity, exposes prosecution’s duplicity

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on December 16, 2022 by Daniel Kovalik (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Dec 20, 2022)

    On December 12 to 13, 2022, an evidentiary hearing in the case of The United States v. Alex Saab was heard before Judge Robert Scola in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. 

  •  | Mapuche protest in Chile using signs in their language defending their right to cultural independence and land recovery Credit photo Pressenza International News Agency | MR Online

    Decolonization, multipolarity, and the demise of the Monroe Doctrine

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on December 6, 2022 by William Camacaro and Frederick Mills (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Dec 08, 2022)

    December 3, 2023 marked the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine.

  •  | The Nobodies Take Office in Colombia An In Depth Analysis | MR Online

    The Nobodies take Office in Colombia: an in-depth analysis

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on August 11, 2022 by Alina Duarte (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Aug 13, 2022)

    People are crying, embracing, yelling, as the streets fill with joy. Horns honk and people dance in the middle of avenues. They can’t believe that the news traveling by word of mouth, tweet to tweet, news show to news show, is really true. As the minutes and hours pass, they confirm that it is true: This June 19th they—the Nobodies—have won.

  •  | Sandinista supporters in Masaya July 2022 Credit John Perry | MR Online

    Nicaragua celebrates 43 years of revolution: a clash between reality and media misrepresentation

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on July 19, 2022 by John Perry (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Jul 21, 2022)

    July 19th is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. But the international media will have it penciled in their diaries for another reason: it’s yet another opportunity to pour scorn on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.

  •  | Alex Saab | MR Online

    New revelations of former U.S. Secretary of Defense confirm illegality of the extradition and arrest of diplomat Alex Saab

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on June 10, 2022 by Dan Kovalik (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Jun 13, 2022)

    In his new memoir, ‘Sacred Oath,’ former U.S. Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, who served under President Donald Trump at the time of the arrest of Alex Saab in Cape Verde, effectively admits that the White House was quite aware of the fact that Saab was a diplomat at the time of his capture.

  •  | Energy Reforms Blocked in Mexico Sharpening Ideological Lines for 2024 Elections | MR Online

    Energy reforms blocked in Mexico, sharpening ideological lines for 2024 elections

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on May 6, 2022 by Jorge Zúñiga M. (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted May 10, 2022)

    These were no minor initiatives; they jeopardized the agendas put forth by the neoliberal administrations of the past.

  •  | Nicaragua A History of US Intervention  Resistance | MR Online

    New Book: ‘Nicaragua, A History of U.S. Intervention & Resistance’

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on April 7, 2022 by Dan Kovalik (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Apr 09, 2022)

    Ocotal is a historic Nicaraguan city located in the Department of Nueva Segovia. It is famous for being the site of battles between the U.S. Marines and the peasant guerilla forces of Augusto Cesar Sandino in the mid-1920s.

  •  | Two Exemplary Twentieth Century Socialist Latin American Lives José Carlos Mariátegui and Orlando Letelier | MR Online

    Two exemplary Twentieth-Century Socialist Latin American lives: José Carlos Mariátegui and Orlando Letelier

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on January 10, 2022 by Nicholas Birns (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Jan 12, 2022)

    The two books we will analyze in this essay, Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui by Juan E. De Castro, and Alan McPherson’s Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice, are very different in subject matter, discipline, and style.

  •  | Social media censorship | MR Online

    Facebook does the U.S. government’s censorship work in Nicaraguan elections

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on November 3, 2021 by John Perry (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Nov 05, 2021)

    A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega.

  •  | Alex Saab   COHA | MR Online

    The U.S. flies Alex Saab out from Cabo Verde without court order or extradition treaty

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on October 18, 2021 by Dan Kovalik (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Oct 19, 2021)

    On October 16, Colombian businessman and Venezuelan Special Envoy Alex Saab was in practical terms kidnapped for the second time, first by Cabo Verde under pressure from Washington, and now by the U.S., in flagrant violation of international law.

  •  | Flickr common license httpswwwflickrcomphotoswest point48397922177inphotostream | MR Online

    175 Years of border invasions: The anniversary of the U.S. war on Mexico and the roots of northward migration

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on April 22, 2021 (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  |

    Amid renewed fear mongering about an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, this week’s 175th anniversary of the 1846–1848 war the U.S. government instigated with Mexico is a reminder that throughout U.S. history, invasions have gone almost exclusively from north to south, not vice versa.

  •  | Behind the Racist Coup in Bolivia | MR Online

    Behind the racist coup in Bolivia

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on November 11, 2019 by Danny Shaw (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  | (Posted Nov 15, 2019)

    Sunday November the 10th, at approximately 4pm (eastern standard time) the democratically elected president and vice president of Bolivia, Evo Morales and Álvaro García respectively, were forced to resign from power.

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    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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