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June 22, 2022
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Danny Shaw New York On August 7th a new left of center government will take power in Colombia. Many questions remain to be answered but one thing is clear: this historic election marks a break with a long Colombian history of State violence and monolithic conservatism. On ... <a title="Colombia’s new President, Gustavo Petro: What does this Historic Leftist Victory Mean for a Continent in Revolt? " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/colombias-new-president-gustavo-petro-what-does-this-historic-leftist-victory-mean-for-a-continent-in-revolt/" aria-label="Read more about Colombia’s new President, Gustavo Petro: What does this Historic Leftist Victory Mean for a Continent in Revolt? ">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Patricio Zamorano Washington DC Brian Nichols, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, visited Honduras the week before the presidential elections. His stated purpose was to “encourage the peaceful, transparent conduct of free and fair national elections.” He did not meet with the de facto President, ... <a title="Hondurans Break the U.S.-imposed Narco Siege of their Government by Electing Xiomara Castro as New President" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/30/hondurans-break-the-u-s-imposed-narco-siege-of-their-government-by-electing-xiomara-castro-as-new-president/" aria-label="Read more about Hondurans Break the U.S.-imposed Narco Siege of their Government by Electing Xiomara Castro as New President">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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June 25, 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 Danny Shaw From NY The human rights group Indepaz reports that 800 activists have been killed in the past three and a half years in Colombia, since November 24, 2016, the ... <a title="Colombia’s Other Pandemic: Unchecked State Violence in the Time of COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/colombias-other-pandemic-unchecked-state-violence-in-the-time-of-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Colombia’s Other Pandemic: Unchecked State Violence in the Time of COVID-19">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Book ReviewBy John PerryFrom Nicaragua Who Killed Berta Cáceres?: Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet, by Nina Lakhani. Verso, 2020. 336 pp. “They build dams and kill people.” These words, spoken by a witness when the murderers of environmental defender Berta Cáceres were ... <a title="Nina Lakhani’s “Who Killed Berta Cáceres?”: On the Life, Death, and Legacy of a Courageous Honduran Indigenous and Environmental Leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/nina-lakhanis-who-killed-berta-caceres-on-the-life-death-and-legacy-of-a-courageous-honduran-indigenous-and-environmental-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Nina Lakhani’s “Who Killed Berta Cáceres?”: On the Life, Death, and Legacy of a Courageous Honduran Indigenous and Environmental Leader">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Patricio ZamoranoFrom Washington DC Now that we have had a few days to study the failed, illegal paramilitary incursion by a group of American and Venezuelan mercenaries into Venezuela, some key details have emerged in this incredible story. They reveal the internal dynamics of the country’s fractured, ... <a title="Guaidó and the Failed Military Operation against Venezuela: A Story of Betrayal and Financial Corruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/06/guaido-and-the-failed-military-operation-against-venezuela-a-story-of-betrayal-and-financial-corruption/" aria-label="Read more about Guaidó and the Failed Military Operation against Venezuela: A Story of Betrayal and Financial Corruption">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>
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December 24, 2019
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Marc Pilisuk, Jennifer Rountree and Rebecca FerencikFrom Berkeley, CA and Portland, OR In its attempt to stem a spike in the number of Latin American men, women, and children traveling to the U.S., an unprecedented number of them seeking asylum, the Trump administration has pushed Guatemala and other ... <a title="Families Fleeing from Guatemala: A Case of Corporate and State Aggression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/24/families-fleeing-from-guatemala-a-case-of-corporate-and-state-aggression/" aria-label="Read more about Families Fleeing from Guatemala: A Case of Corporate and State Aggression">Read more</a>
