ICE Detention Reforms Hide Abusive Practices
By Tom Barry
The Obama administration is trying to wiggle its way out of the immigration crisis created by the Bush administration without taking any decisive steps to distance itself from its predecessor’s immigration policies and enforcement practices. The recent announcements by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and officials of the department’s Immigration and Customs [...]
Read more →Poor Pecos, Poor Prisoners—Criminal Justice for Immigrants in Texas’ Reeves County
By Tom Barry
Getting into the federal building in Pecos, Texas takes political sophistication—something I was apparently lacking when attempting to enter the building for the trial of a couple of immigrant inmates indicted for their role in the Dec. 12-13 incident. It’s the same all over the country. After Sept. 11, the federal halls of justice have [...]
Read more →An Interview with Emir Sader
By alvarez
Emir Sader, professor, sociologist, andexecutive secretary of the Latin AmericanCouncil of Social Sciences (CLACSO).Photo: Universidade Federal deMinas Gerais. With the rise of center-left governments, the South American region has—almost universally—appeared to leave behind the pillars of the Washington Consensus and the neoliberal model. Fiscal adjustment has been replaced with an agenda marked by a social [...]
Read more →Brazil Emerges as a Military Power
By Raúl Zibechi
The recently signed agreements between Brazil and France are about much more than the purchase of armaments. They indicate the creation of a military industrial complex, a goal which forms part of the National Defense Strategy of Brazil. This new industrial superpower, owner of the seventh largest oil reserves of the world and the world’s [...]
Read more →Youth and Union Members Targeted by Coup Violence
By emanuelsson
The Honduran people have set an example for people throughout Latin America through three months of steady resistance to the coup in their country. But there are powerful groups within Honduras and abroad organizing to neutralize this unprecedented force and block the resistance from growing in strength and numbers. These groups above all seek to [...]
Read more →Latin America: The Empire Retreats
By Raúl Zibechi
In the span of a few days two events occurred that reveal that in small Latin American countries that were previously subordinate to Washington, the ex-superpower no longer controls their decades-old allies. The recent episodes in Paraguay and Honduras reveal that the empire’s withdrawal from its own backyard is accelerating in the present systemic crisis. [...]
Read more →Kraft Firings Feed Protests
Mass firings at Kraft Foods’ plant in Argentina sparked protests throughout the nation, and ignited a new wave of worker organizing. In August, Kraft fired 160 workers after they went on strike to demand proper health measures at the company’s factory in suburban Buenos Aires during the swine flu epidemic in Argentina. Most of the [...]
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