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US Locks Up Central American Refugees That It’s Helped Displace (2/2)

On top of its legal obligations to asylum seekers, does the U.S. have a moral obligation to Central Americans fleeing countries that the U.S. has destabilized? We discuss the criminalization of immigration and asylum-seeking with…

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US Gov’t Regime Change Machine Exacerbates Nicaragua’s Violent Protests

As Nicaragua’s leftist government faces a violent right-wing insurgency, journalist Max Blumenthal discusses with TRNN’s Ben Norton how the regime change machinery bankrolled by the US government’s National Endowment for Democracy boasted of “laying the…

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Rep. Ilhan Omar Grills Elliott Abrams on Support for Central American Genocide

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) of Minnesota presented Elliott Abrams with uncomfortable facts about his past illegal activities and asked him whether he would pursue similar human rights violating policies against Venezuela as he did against…

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Cut Military Aid, Not Humanitarian Aid, to Reduce Refugee Numbers

Trump’s announcement to cut humanitarian aid to Central America will not have much effect. It’s the military aid that reinforces brutality in Guatemala and Honduras, says Prof. Adrienne Pine Subscribe to our page and support…

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Trump’s Mexico Tariff Ignores the Reality of Migration

Mexico has already deported thousands of Central Americans who are fleeing their homelands because of a century of U.S. interventionist policies Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video…

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Central American Caravan for the Disappeared Seeks to Reunite Families

A caravan of Hondurans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans heads north towards Mexico looking for lost and disappeared loved ones. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended…

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The ongoing colonial violence of resource extraction in Latin America | The Marc Steiner Show

Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/for-us-extractivism-is-lethal-the-ongoing-colonial-violence-of-resource-extraction-in-latin-america From the defeat of the coup government in Bolivia, the election of Xiomara Castro in Honduras, and the rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico, to the…

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