Given Yaku Pérez’s backing of coups in neighboring countries, it should come as no surprise that he is calling for the same in his own democracy, writes Ben Norton.
Vijay Prashad talks with Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta — in the expanding capital of Santiago — about his city’s experiment in rebuilding the public sector.
It would seem that the purpose of this land-grabbing “green” fuel, first and foremost, is to purify the collective conscience of the West, writes Phoebe Holmes.
Removing U.S. support would force Moïse to negotiate with his opponents, opening the way to a Haitian solution that builds the country’s independence, writes Brian Concannon.
Erasure or sublimation of memory makes it easier to shape the present by controlling or editing history. Doing so preserves a mythic version of a country’s identity, postulates Michael Brenner.