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Writer about politics and social issues in Central America for FAIR, Covert Action magazine, London Review of Books and elsewhere.

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www.counterpunch.org Laura Dogu and Washingtonโ€™s Regime-Change Playbook: Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela

Laura Dogu and Washingtonโ€™s Regime-Change Playbook: Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela

13.02.2026 07:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nicaraguaโ€™s Economy โ€œWeathers Multiple Shocks,โ€ Including US Attacks The International Monetary Fundโ€™s new assessment of Nicaraguaโ€™s economy labels it as โ€œstrongโ€ no fewer than 56 times. But it also shows how key factors in

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08.02.2026 03:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Punishing Progress: Washington Targets Social Achievements of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/13/p...

13.06.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When Media Says Who โ€˜Wonโ€™ a Latin American Election, Start Asking Questions Doubts about the results, or questions about outside influence, can be set aside if the outcome fits the consensus narrative, especially if it is endorsed by a White House spokesperson.

When Media Says Who โ€˜Wonโ€™ a Latin American Election, Start Asking Questions www.laprogressive.com/foreign-poli...

13.06.2025 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When Media Tell Us Who โ€˜Wonโ€™ a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions According to corporate media, Noboaโ€™s victory was clear-cut, the reasons for it were obvious and there was little reason to question the outcome.

When Media Tell Us Who โ€˜Wonโ€™ a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions - fair.org/home/when-me...

10.06.2025 22:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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John Perry | Irregular Warfare El Salvadorโ€™s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) opened in 2023. It has capacity for up to forty thousand...

My take on the despicable treatment of Venezuelan migrants by the Trump regime: it's "Irregular Warfare" www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

10.04.2025 22:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meet the DC think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans - The Grayzone These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere's poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers. Sanctions are a...

How well-financed Washington think tanks impoverish Latin Americans thegrayzone.com/2025/04/06/d...

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Nicaraguaโ€™s Opposition Media Welcome Trumpโ€™s New Tariffs โ€“ And Ignore How They Were Calculated| Countercurrents A minimum 10 per cent tariff on exports to the US will hit low-income countries throughout the region. But exports from Nicaragua have been saddled with an

Nicaragua's opposition welcome Trump's tariffs countercurrents.org/2025/04/nica...

07.04.2025 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Biasedโ€™ UN report on Nicaragua ignores victims of US-backed opposition violence - The Grayzone A new UN report relies on a US government-funded operative, Felix Maradiaga, who helped instigate the violent 2018 coup to remove President Daniel Ortega in 2018. Yet UN "experts" have refused to inte...

Read about how the UN human rights system is corrupted to serve US interests: thegrayzone.com/2025/03/05/u...

06.03.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The demise of USAid: few regrets in Latin America With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the USโ€™s southern ...

My piece with Roger Harris for the Morning Star. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/demi...

19.02.2025 12:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Demise of USAID: Few Regrets in Latin America - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/17/t...

18.02.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œTake your money with you,โ€ said Colombiaโ€™s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trumpโ€™s plans to cut aid to Latin America, โ€œitโ€™s poison.โ€ popularresistance.org/the-demise-o...

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