O n December 20, 1989, the United States invaded Panama with tens of thousands of troops. It was the largest U.S. invasion since Vietnam. The first U.S. military action since the fall of the Berlin Wall one month before. The testing ground for the Iraq wars.

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P anama is, perhaps, the country in the region that has suffered under the longest U.S. shadow—right from the very beginning. The country and the canal would become the United States’ most important asset in the region. The United States installed as many as 100 military bases throughout Panama, during World War II, and it was the base of Washington’s Latin American military training ...

Leia este artigo em português. Translated to English by Joyce Silva Fernandes. B lack people make up the majority in Brazil. Over half of the nation’s 215 million inhabitants—56 percent or about 120 million people—are Afro-Brazilian, making the country home to the largest Black population in the Americas.

O ver the past decade, Chile has become one of the main destinations for Latin American migrants in the continent. Many of these newly arrived migrants have settled in the northern city of Antofagasta, near the borders with Bolivia and Peru. Antofagasta gathers the largest proportion of migrants of any Chilean city today.

2024年10月25日 · R ecently, at a hostel in Cochabamba, Bolivia, I launched into a tirade about the lack of any significant social services or safety net in my home country of the United States, services that countless other countries offer in abundance. My interlocutor, a German woman, made a pointed comment: “I see what you mean, but other countries don’t pay for the world’s freedom the way the U.S ...

2025年1月7日 · Brazil’s highly militarized policing disproportionately impacts poor and racialized communities. By providing funding and training, the United States has helped exacerbate the crisis.

2022年11月11日 · Leer este artículo en español. O n September 25, 2022, Cuba approved a new Family Code in a referendum, repealing the one in place since 1975. The new legislation moved the country into the 21st century with regard to family law, reproductive rights, domestic violence, children's rights, maternity and paternity, old age, people with disabilities, and more.

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O n September 11, 1973, the Chilean military overthrew the socialist government of President Salvador Allende in a CIA-supported coup, installing a ruthless 17-year dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. As the U.S.-backed military junta killed or forcibly disappeared more than 3,000 people and tortured more than 40,000, the country became the laboratory for neoliberal policy with ...