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January 23, 2025
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Maximiliano Véjares Washington DC Chile’s recent local elections, in which moderate, traditional parties staged a comeback, offer a promising sign of political stability. Following five years of uncertainty marked by a social uprising in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic, and two unsuccessful attempts to rewrite the Pinochet-era constitution, ... <a title="Chile: Back to the Future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/chile-back-to-the-future/" aria-label="Read more about Chile: Back to the Future">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2024
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage St. Lucia during and post Hurricane Beryl by Tamanisha J. John Toronto, Ontario Whenever a hurricane hits in the Caribbean, people rush to point out that it is an indicator of “disaster capitalism” and/or that “disaster capitalism” will surely come. While I agree that non-governmental organizations (NGO) and ... <a title="Hurricane Unpreparedness in the Caribbean, Disaster by Imperial Design" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/31/hurricane-unpreparedness-in-the-caribbean-disaster-by-imperial-design/" aria-label="Read more about Hurricane Unpreparedness in the Caribbean, Disaster by Imperial Design">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2024
Podcast: A View from Afar with Paul G Buchanan and Selwyn Manning. Building upon recent episodes of A View from Afar, Political Scientist Paul G Buchanan and journalist Selwyn Manning will discuss The Politics of Desperation. This episode flows on from our discussions about long transitions and the moment of friction. As the old status ... <a title="LIVE@12:45pm – The Politics of Desperation – Trump, Netanyahu, Maduro, Ortega" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/09/live1245pm-the-politics-of-desperation-trump-netanyahu-maduro-ortega/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE@12:45pm – The Politics of Desperation – Trump, Netanyahu, Maduro, Ortega">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage by Leonardo Flores Caracas A massive cyberattack, a global disinformation campaign and armed gangs are key elements in an attempted coup in Venezuela following presidential elections on July 28. The results of those elections, in which 10 candidates competed, saw President Maduro win 51.2% of the vote against ... <a title="An Attack on Venezuela’s Democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/an-attack-on-venezuelas-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about An Attack on Venezuela’s Democracy">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Maribel Nolasco and Rubén Sierra Honolulu, Hawai‘i History was made on June 2, 2024. Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to be elected President of México and the first democratically-elected woman to lead a country in North America. President-elect Sheinbaum will take the reins from her predecessor ... <a title="México Elects First Woman President in Historic Election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/mexico-elects-first-woman-president-in-historic-election/" aria-label="Read more about México Elects First Woman President in Historic Election">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) has signed onto the following letter urging respect for the electoral process underway in Venezuela and opposing outside interference. July 27, 2024 On July 28, millions of Venezuelans will go to the polls to choose between ten presidential candidates, including incumbent Nicolás ... <a title="Beware of Attempts to Discredit Venezuela’s Election and Launch Regime Change: A Letter from Organizations in the US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/beware-of-attempts-to-discredit-venezuelas-election-and-launch-regime-change-a-letter-from-organizations-in-the-us/" aria-label="Read more about Beware of Attempts to Discredit Venezuela’s Election and Launch Regime Change: A Letter from Organizations in the US">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the tally kept by RSF, 200 journalists have been subjected to threats and physical violence, including murder, in the past 10 years because they were working on stories linked to ... <a title="200 journalists ‘targeted’ over their environment reporting, warns RSF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/200-journalists-targeted-over-their-environment-reporting-warns-rsf/" aria-label="Read more about 200 journalists ‘targeted’ over their environment reporting, warns RSF">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2023
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Roger D. Harris Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.” The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international trade but in circumvention of Washington’s illegal economic coercive measures, ... <a title="How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/22/how-the-campaign-to-free-venezuelan-political-prisoner-alex-saab-succeeded/" aria-label="Read more about How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2023
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) receives the news of the passing of the great Argentine Mexican philosopher, Enrique Dussel on Sunday, November 5, with deep sadness and extends our condolences to the family, the members of the Association of Philosophy and Liberation (AFyL), and other loved ones ... <a title="Reflection on the Liberatory Legacy of Enrique Dussel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/27/reflection-on-the-liberatory-legacy-of-enrique-dussel/" aria-label="Read more about Reflection on the Liberatory Legacy of Enrique Dussel">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2023
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Sameer Gupta and Armaan Johal From Toronto, ON 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 ... <a title="Canada’s Steadfast Support for Big Agriculture’s Assault on Mexican Biodiversity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/27/canadas-steadfast-support-for-big-agricultures-assault-on-mexican-biodiversity/" aria-label="Read more about Canada’s Steadfast Support for Big Agriculture’s Assault on Mexican Biodiversity">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Tamanisha J. John From Toronto, Ontario 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 ... <a title="US Moves to Curtail China’s Economic Investment in the Caribbean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/us-moves-to-curtail-chinas-economic-investment-in-the-caribbean/" aria-label="Read more about US Moves to Curtail China’s Economic Investment in the Caribbean">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2023
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage John Perry, Masaya, Nicaragua On the fifth anniversary of the 2018 coup attempt in Nicaragua, conflicting accounts of the violence and killings still persist. The mainstream media has characterized the opposition protests as generally peaceful and cases of opposition violence as counter violence against brutal repression of dissent ... <a title="Nicaragua: On the Fifth Anniversary of a Coup Attempt, Conflicting Accounts Persist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/08/nicaragua-on-the-fifth-anniversary-of-a-coup-attempt-conflicting-accounts-persist/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua: On the Fifth Anniversary of a Coup Attempt, Conflicting Accounts Persist">Read more</a>
