Fascism 2.0 in eight lessons
2020 Diciembre Internacional
Today, November 16, 2020, it is impossible to predict what will happen in the United States over the coming weeks. There are many critical questions...

A Guatemalan’s chronicle of the April that changed New York
2020 Junio Estados Unidos
The night of Sunday April 5, we received the news that a young student of mine and his mother were both infected with COVID-19. Half an hour later...

Nica-US relations in the Era of Trump
2017 Febrero Nicaragua
We’ve been observing Donald Trump for over 18 months as a pre-candidate then candidate for the US Presidency, almost three months as President-elect...

The subliminal effects of policy messages on the democratic exercise
2016 Julio Internacional
Democracy is in trouble, and an important cause of many of its contemporary ailments is the messages policies send to citizens about participation and...

Donald Trump wants to destroy the heterogeneous State
2016 Junio Centroamérica
Waving the banner of xenophobia and stirring up hatred against Latino and other immigrants, Donald Trump has turned himself into a vote-harvesting machine...

The Mexico-US border: A very lucrative, inefficient business. Solid and liquid border vigilance (part 3)
2015 Julio Centroamérica
To enter the United States, Central American migrants must pass through one of the most patrolled regions on Earth. They’re confronted by an armed legion...

Detainees and deportees: Xenophobia and dollars
2013 Enero Centroamérica
Undocumented migrants detained in the Lasalle Detention Facility in Jena, Louisiana, wear uniforms of three different colors, constituting a warning...

The Darker Sides of a “Country of Immigrants”
2009 Mayo Internacional
The famous Statue of Liberty rises up on the island next to Ellis Island, the famous Island of Tears that filtered immigrants coming to the United States....

A History of US Deportation: Will to Exclude, License to Marginalize
2009 Abril Internacional
When the first European colonists reached what is now the United States of America, Ellis Island was just a 3.3-acre island at the mouth of the Hudson...

The Ideological Bricks of the Anti-Immigrant Wall
2006 Julio Centroamérica
On August 6, 1890, a German immigrant named William Kemmler was the first person to be executed in the electric chair in the United States, at New York’s...

The US god, Bush's God, Nicaragua's God: How Do They Differ?
2005 Enero Internacional
George W. Bush’s reelection revealed some of the pro-found political and cultural tensions that have marked the history of the United States and, more...

Enron et al—The Fiasco of the New US-style
2004 Marzo Internacional
From the late 1990s until 2001, American capitalism was held up as the model. The US President and the chairman of the Federal Reserve did not hesitate...

A Central American in the USA: Reflections on “The American Dream”
2003 Abril Internacional
Mark Twain traveled Nicaragua’s Río San Juan in 1886, when he was 51, 10 years after publishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. All that remains...

George W. Bush: A Dictator by Any Other Name...
2003 Marzo Internacional
The term dictator has been used in my lifetime to describe a range of political leaders. Certainly Hitler was a dictator, perhaps the first of whom...

Always at War against Someone
2003 Marzo Internacional
In the middle of last year, while this war was incubating, George W. Bush declared that “we must be ready to attack any obscure corner of the world.”...

World Trade Rules: Rabbit and Tiger in the Same Cage
2002 Diciembre Internacional
Since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, the first between developed nations and a developing one, the price Mexican...

The US Power Complex: What’s new
2002 Noviembre Internacional
To discern what’s new about US foreign policy and its power trip through history, there is no need to follow the debates in the foreign policy journals...

The World on the Ropes
2001 Octubre Internacional
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers and their subsequent destruction was an act of insanity that graphically demonstrates the giant...

USA-NATO vs. Yugoslavia: The Empire’s Impunity
1999 Mayo Internacional
NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia under us auspices is unprecedented. It is the first time since World War II that NATO has launched a military offensive...

US Chemical Weapons in Panama: A Dangerous Legacy
1998 Septiembre Panamá
In early 1998, the United States went to the brink of war with Iraq over the latter country's refusal to comply with United Nations resolutions regarding...

How the US Trained Latin America's Military: The Smoking Gun
1997 Octubre Estados Unidos
Part of that training took place at the US Army School of the Americas (SOA), set up by the US Army in Panama in 1946 and transferred to Fort Bennington,...

The US Drug Fight: A Form of Social Control
1997 Abril Estados Unidos
The anti-drug fight in the united states is, in general terms, a technique of social control in two senses. There is a type of advanced structural adjustment...

Relations with the United States: A Two-Way Street
1996 Noviembre Nicaragua
Ten years have passed since the international court of justice handed down its decision in the case of the "Military and Paramilitary Activities in...

Democracy and Markets in The New World Order
1996 Julio Internacional
The conventional picture of the new era we are entering and the promise it holds was formulated clearly by National Security Adviser Anthony Lake when...

USAID's Strategy in Nicaragua
1993 Mayo Nicaragua
With President Bill Clinton's arrival at the White House and the strengthening of the Democrats in Congress, information and speculation about changes...

In the National Interest: Trends in US Foreign Aid Programs
1992 Abril Estados Unidos
It is hardly surprising that the US foreign aid program has always operated in the national interests of the United States. The definition of those...

The United States: Redefining Central America and the World
1991 Abril Centroamérica
The United States in 1991 is facing what Secretary of State James Baker has called the "defining moment." What is up for definition is whether the Bush...

An End to the Cold War?
1989 Mayo Estados Unidos
The Reagan Administration's attempt to depict the Soviet Union and its allies as "the evil empire" lost credibility as Mikhail Gorbachev pursued new...