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US Starts 2026 by Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping Its President

04.01.2026 10

Common Dreams

Tamara Pearson

US Starts 2026 by Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping Its President, Setting a Tone of Imperialist Violence for the Year

With its violent military intervention into Venezuela–a country I used to live in–the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised...

04.01.2026 3

CounterPunch

Tamara Pearson

Big Pharma Is Making Mexico Sick. Medicine and Supply Shortages Are Rampant.

Mexico manufactures medical devices and medicines, but the majority are exported, leaving residents facing shortages.

18.12.2025 4

Truthout

Tamara Pearson

How the Rightwing has Used AI and Influencers to Make Up an Anti-Government Movement in Mexico

"Down with communism," they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist excess, corruption, and...

18.11.2025 4

CounterPunch

Tamara Pearson

Nine Ways Hope is Being Systematically Depleted and How to Reclaim It

“They sowed fear in us, we grew wings,” goes the song in Spanish by Vivir Quintana, about women in Mexico resisting femicide. Amid the protests, a...

03.10.2025 10

CounterPunch

Tamara Pearson

Sand Mining Is a Booming Industry — This Mexican Community Is Paying the Price

Fifty-six residents of an Indigenous Oaxaca community face 200 trumped-up charges for resisting mining in their rivers.

10.07.2025 40

Truthout

Tamara Pearson

Mexican Activists Are Building Digital Defenses Against Big Tech Colonialism

Communities are learning digital security and building autonomous servers to take control of their own data.

14.05.2025 6

Truthout

Tamara Pearson

Midwife’s 14-Year Sentence Highlights Attacks on Women’s Autonomy, Global Surge in Unnecessary C-sections

May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, but Ricardo Jones, a doctor and midwife, is spending it under house arrest after recently being sentenced...

05.05.2025 10

CounterPunch

Tamara Pearson

Control and Worse: Trump is Criminalizing All of Latin America

From preparing to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labeling cartels "terrorist organizations," Trump has been using both language and policies to...

05.02.2025 7

CounterPunch

Tamara Pearson

Life in Cuba Has Grown Harder. Biden’s Modest Reversal Was Too Little Too Late.

Many fear Trump will reverse Biden’s decision to remove Cuba from the US’s list of “state sponsors of terrorism."

15.01.2025 5

Truthout

Tamara Pearson

From Gaza to COP29: The 9 Types of Violence Wealthy Countries are Inflicting on the Global South

The wealthy, imperialist countries of the Global North are committing a long list of crimes against people in Latin America, Africa, the Middle...

22.11.2024 5

CounterPunch

Tamara Pearson

Farmers in Mexico Don’t Trust New President to Defend Their Water From Hoarding

“Don’t buy pork” imported from Mexico, implores Renato Romero, a Mexican farmer who is leading a resistance effort against the transnational...

30.09.2024 2

Truthout

Tamara Pearson