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• Abbott: Honduran Indigenous Activist Wins Human Rights Award for Struggle Against Corporate Destruction of Land

  In 2015, Romero and her community were able to successfully stop the construction of the hydroelectric dam
• Gutiérrez D.: Insurgency, conflict and communalism in Colombia

  For decades, the FARC has led the revolutionary struggle in Colombia, but now farmers are taking over control by means of communal assemblies.
• Dolack: There’s no place for clean water under ‘free trade’

  That last ruling provides the essence of “free trade” agreements — the accumulation of corporate power to override all democratic controls over health, safety, environmental or labor safeguards
• Walters: Ortega’s Betrayal

  Today’s Sandinista leaders are a far cry from the revolutionaries that once inspired the international left
• Silva: Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua

  Nicaragua has lost 60 percent of its surface water sources and up to 50 percent of its underground sources, which either dried up or have been polluted
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  Cohn: Hillary Clinton’s Link to a Nasty Piece of Work in Honduras

  Although the U.S. government eventually cut nonhumanitarian aid to Honduras, the State Department under Clinton took pains to clarify that this was not an admission that a military coup had occurred.
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  Bell: ¡Berta Lives! The Life and Legacy of Berta Cáceres

  May all women and men commit themselves to realizing the vision of transformation, dignity, and justice for which Berta lived, and for which she died
• Jones: Walking a Migrant Trail

  How can Christians – or people of any faith, or no faith, for that matter – reconcile themselves to the militarization and victimization taking place in our borderlands, in our names?
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  Podur: ‘Paz Colombia’: the Latest US Attempt to Control Colombia?

  ​The U.S. has announced funding for a new Plan Colombia as the country moves towards a resolution to its civil war. What is its real purpose?
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  Oikonomakis: Nicaragua and the ghosts of revolution

  Over two decades after a devastating civil war, the people of Nicaragua are still plagued by the haunting memories of what could have been
• Jorden: White House Protest Against Enhanced Deportations of Central Americans

  Central America has been experiencing extreme levels of violence, with young people being targeted by gangs
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  Barragan: What is Peace Without Justice in Colombia?

  The Colombian government’s dark history of murdering dissidents should give us pause before celebrating peace
• Ingraham: ‘Model Cities’: The Biggest Threat to Democracy in Honduras?

  The idea for these neoliberal ‘model cities’ took force after the US-backed military coup that ousted President Zelaya in 2009
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  Fuentes: El Salvador: In power, former guerrillas to hold first congress

  Thirty-five years after its founding, El Salvador's historic Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) is set to hold its first national congress at the end of October.
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  Podur: The most dangerous moment in Colombia’s peace talks

  Regional political changes that could sink the accord
• Busch: El Salvador’s War on Terror

  El Salvador risks sacrificing civil liberties and human rights in its war on terror against gangs
• Russell: Rios Montt Case Symbolic of Impunity Guatemalans Must Overcome

  Corruption and impunity are not a “crisis” in Guatemala; they have been and remain the “norm”
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  Mychalejko: Central American ‘Springs’ Foregone

  Democracy in the region has continuously been deemed a threat by Washington, so much so that state terror has been used to crush it
• Pedersen: Canadian Mining Undermines Democracy in Central America

  Canada’s multinationals work hand-in-hand with corrupt governments and threaten democracy in post-conflict Central American nations
• Pine: Disaster Capitalism and Outrage in Post-Coup Honduras

  Washington continues to interfere in the internal politics of Honduras six years after the coup