Latin America

Desperation and Fear on the Mexican Border

When the siblings turned themselves in to US Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, in mid-April, agents separated them. “Where are you taking him?” she asked. “He’s going to a better place than you,” she said an agent replied. But as we have found, Gloria’s brother, like other children in Border Patrol detention, certainly was not going to a good place.

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Fascism: Castrismo, Chavismo, Madurismo

Some Cubans have been aware of the similarities between Italian fascism and the Cuban government, for decades already. They aren’t just pure coincidence. Venezuelans have also been under the same yoke for years, and have said so. A disaster that doesn’t recognize language or borders, is spreading without a solution in sight.

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