The Sandinista Revolution, Reconsidered

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, or FSLN) overthrew Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ending a...

Colombian Politicians React to Trump’s Tariff Threat and Aid Suspension

U.S President Donald Trump triggered a political firestorm in Colombia after announcing on his social media platform – Truth Social – the immediate suspension of all financial aid and imposition of punitive tariffs on Colombian exports. The...

Will Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner Stick With Trump?

In a public statement made shortly after winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuelan democratic activist María Corina Machado pledged that she would dedicate the award to U.S. President Donald Trump. It wasn’t just an effort to salve the U.S....

GBF President reaffirms Guyana’s readiness to host FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship

Press Release from the Guyana Basketball Federation President of the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF), Michael Singh, has reaffirmed Guyana’s readiness to host this year’s FIBA Women’s Caribbean Championship, scheduled for November 12-16 at the...

Is the UN Charter Worth the Paper It’s Written On?

October 8, 2025 Black Agenda Report In practice, the UN Charter ensures that the world’s most powerful nations are free to wage war at will without UN intervention or even censure, as the US has time and again. Before raining bombs and missiles on...

CIA activity against Venezuelan leaders revives specter of US interventionism in Latin America

The long and often sinister history of U.S. intervention in Latin America appears to be about to enter a new chapter. After a 20th century full of active interference, sometimes overt, such as the 1989 invasion of Panama — and other times,...

Costa Rica’s national stadium sports a new name: INS Estadio

Q COSTARICA — “Horror de los horrores!” was the reaction of Giselle Goyenaga, former Minister of Sports, on the renaming of the National Stadium in La Sabana, from Estadio Nacional to INS Estadio. The motive behind the change of name of Costa...

Inside NW ICE Processing Center, where detainees may be held for years, sometimes in poor living conditions

TACOMA – Not long into his confinement at the sprawling immigrant detention center in Tacoma, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino heard swearing as dinner was served. “Hey, look at this,” said the man swearing as he brought his tray over for Juarez to...

Trump Calls Colombian President 'Illegal Drug Dealer,' Cuts Off All Payments to the Country

President Donald Trump opened a second front in his war against South American drug lords, calling the president of Colombia an “illegal drug leader” and cutting off all aid to the South American nation. Trump’s action came after Colombian...

Brazil’s Invisible Communities Deserve to Be Counted

The rise in big data and artificial intelligence has weaponized, excluded, disadvantaged, and exacerbated the inequities faced by oppressed communities. In the United States, President Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to exclude immigrants from...

Myanmar delegation arrives back from attending Ministerial Meeting of Non-Aligned Movement

October 20, 2025 Myanmar News Agency 7 While in Kampala, Uganda, for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting held on 15-16 October 2025, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Than Swe held bilateral meetings with the Foreign Ministers...

Honduras vs Haiti LIVE: Honduras Triumphs 3-0 and Takes a Big Step Toward the 2026 World Cup

Full Time 90 + 7 Final whistle! Honduras wins and secures their spot in the 2026 World Cup, to be held in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The celebration is huge at the National Stadium, while everyone awaits the result of the Costa Rica...

Who killed Hispanic detectives?

The good thing about my age is that I can reread detective novels because I already forgot who the murderer is. (Josefa Sistac, 94 years old, my grandma) Major archetypes Detective fiction is best known for the hardboiled scene. Usually,...

The Many Crimes of CIA Covert Actions

Counter-attack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces supported by T-34 tanks near Playa Giron during the Bay of Pigs invasion, 19 April 1961. Photograph Source: Rumlin – CC BY 3.0 The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Each time...

On Faith: Christianity and migration

Christianity is all bound up with migration, today and across history. Here is one example recently in the news: Pedro Bismark Chau, born in Nicaragua, has just been ordained auxiliary bishop in Newark, New Jersey. He was only 16 years old when he...

Play It Again Sports Scoreboard - Monday, Oct. 13, 2025

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS SCOREBOARD BOYS SOCCER Normal Community West 1, Edwardsville 1 Waterloo Gibault Catholic 1, Breese Central 0 Highland 2, Alton 0 Father McGivney Catholic 3, Collinsville 0 Belleville West 2, Granite City 0...

Inside the Tacoma ICE detention center, where you could be held for days or years

Barbed wire is seen through chain link fences at the Northwest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center, Aug. 13, 2025, in Tacoma, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Not long into his confinement at the sprawling immigrant detention...

Sport leader honoured by Alumni Association

Dina Bell-Laroche (MA ’06) is passionate about leveling the playing field in Canadian sport. In recognition of her unwavering dedication to building a more compassionate and values-driven sport system, Bell-Laroche received the 2025 Brock...

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

Today you write, “Fascism is not a historical artifact, but a reoccurring political logic, one that depends on mythologizing a lost past, stoking a sense of victimhood, and building a hierarchy of purity.” On May 12, scholar Jason Stanley joined...

Raw chicken dinner, no soap: ICE detainees recount rough conditions in Tacoma facility

Not long into his confinement at the sprawling immigrant detention center in Tacoma, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino heard swearing as dinner was served. “Hey, look at this,” said the man swearing as he brought his tray over for Juarez to see. On...