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April 13, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Laura Iesue From Miami, Florida On March 29, 2020, Guatemala’s President Giammattei implemented an eight-day, country-wide curfew to stop the spread of COVID-19.[1] Ultimately, this lockdown would continue until October 1, 2020, as the virus continued to travel across communities.[2] While the viral spread continued to hold the ... <a title="COVID-19 highlights the need for Policing Reforms for Domestic Violence Cases in Guatemala" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/13/covid-19-highlights-the-need-for-policing-reforms-for-domestic-violence-cases-in-guatemala/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 highlights the need for Policing Reforms for Domestic Violence Cases in Guatemala">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Lucy Pagoada-Quesada From New York Mr. President Joe Biden, As a Honduran-US citizen, I am writing to urge you to change course in U.S. policy towards Honduras so that my country recuperates its democracy. You were Vice President when in 2009, the government of your party led ... <a title="Open Letter from a Honduran Teacher to President Joe Biden" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/02/open-letter-from-a-honduran-teacher-to-president-joe-biden/" aria-label="Read more about Open Letter from a Honduran Teacher to President Joe Biden">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage John Perry From Masaya US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched another attack on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government last month, accusing President Daniel Ortega of being a “dictator” who is “doubling down on repression and refusing to honor the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan people.”[1] The State Department openly ... <a title="Nicaragua, attacked for following the same US policies against foreign meddling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/nicaragua-attacked-for-following-the-same-us-policies-against-foreign-meddling/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua, attacked for following the same US policies against foreign meddling">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage John PerryFrom Masaya, Nicaragua An extraordinary leaked document gives a glimpse of the breadth and complexity of the US government’s plan to interfere in Nicaragua’s internal affairs up to and after its presidential election in 2021. The plan,[1] a 14-page extract from a much longer document, dates from ... <a title="The US contracts out its regime change operation in Nicaragua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/05/the-us-contracts-out-its-regime-change-operation-in-nicaragua/" aria-label="Read more about The US contracts out its regime change operation in Nicaragua">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By John PerryFrom Masaya, Nicaragua A report issued at the end of May repeats allegations of government repression in Nicaragua during violent protests in 2018. It was commissioned by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a body of the Organization of American States (OAS), and revives arguments ... <a title="Revisiting 2018 Mother’s March in Nicaragua: New Report Repeats Old Bias" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/revisiting-2018-mothers-march-in-nicaragua-new-report-repeats-old-bias/" aria-label="Read more about Revisiting 2018 Mother’s March in Nicaragua: New Report Repeats Old Bias">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Rita Jill Clark-Gollub (Washington), Erika Takeo (Managua), and Avery Raimondo (Los Angeles) “A nation that cannot feed itself is not free.” Fausto Torrez, Nicaraguan Rural Workers Association An array of UN agencies is predicting a global hunger pandemic triggered by COVID-19 lockdowns, with the head of the ... <a title="Feeding the people in times of Pandemic: The Food Sovereignty Approach in Nicaragua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/feeding-the-people-in-times-of-pandemic-the-food-sovereignty-approach-in-nicaragua/" aria-label="Read more about Feeding the people in times of Pandemic: The Food Sovereignty Approach in Nicaragua">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Support this progressive voice and be a part of it. Donate to COHA today. Click here By Marcia CuryFrom Brazil A Le Monde editorial put it in Shakespearean language on May 19, saying “something is rotten in the state of Brazil.”[1] That appears to be accurate. Added to this ... <a title="Under Bolsonaro, has Brazil become Unmoored?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/03/under-bolsonaro-has-brazil-become-unmoored/" aria-label="Read more about Under Bolsonaro, has Brazil become Unmoored?">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Support this progressive voice and be a part of it. Donate to COHA today. Click here By John Perry From Masaya, Nicaragua Every country in the world is trying to balance its fight against the virus with the need to have a functioning economy, and there is plenty ... <a title="Nicaragua battles COVID-19 and a Disinformation Campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/31/nicaragua-battles-covid-19-and-a-disinformation-campaign/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua battles COVID-19 and a Disinformation Campaign">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage The Reverend Phil Wheaton, an activist and community organizer in the Washington D.C. area, passed away this month. He had worked tirelessly for humanitarian causes, including for Salvadorans who came to the United States in large numbers in the 1980s fleeing their country’s civil war. Sonia Umanzor is ... <a title="Phil Wheaton: Remembering an Exemplary Fighter for the People" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/22/phil-wheaton-remembering-an-exemplary-fighter-for-the-people/" aria-label="Read more about Phil Wheaton: Remembering an Exemplary Fighter for the People">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Yorlis Luna From Managua, Nicaragua I think when many of us look at the world today we feel like we’re watching a science fiction movie: 22 million officially unemployed in the U.S. while analysts say the true figure may be double that[1],; predictions of the worst economic ... <a title="Food Security Policy Prevents Hunger in Nicaragua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/14/food-security-policy-prevents-hunger-in-nicaragua/" aria-label="Read more about Food Security Policy Prevents Hunger in Nicaragua">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Alina Duarte From Mexico City Behind that jovial image of a president who takes selfies at the U.N. and governs over social media stands a strategic ally of the United States who has little regard for human rights. The social media presence of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ... <a title="El Salvador: Bukele’s Heavy- Handed Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Violates Human Rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/el-salvador-bukeles-heavy-handed-response-to-covid-19-pandemic-violates-human-rights/" aria-label="Read more about El Salvador: Bukele’s Heavy- Handed Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Violates Human Rights">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By John PerryFrom Masaya, Nicaragua “He’s not a doctor, I don’t think.” Trump had just finished a phone call with Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), the de facto president of Honduras who runs a narco-state[1]. On April 30, JOH was indirectly implicated in drug and murder charges by the ... <a title="COVID-19 as Pretext for Repression in the Northern Triangle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/01/covid-19-as-pretext-for-repression-in-the-northern-triangle/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 as Pretext for Repression in the Northern Triangle">Read more</a>
