by Jonathan Ng | Mar 16, 2026 | Augusto Pinochet, Authoritarianism, cartels, Central America, chile, Cold War, disappearances, Dissent, Donald Trump, El Salvador, history, Honduras, Human Rights, ICE, immigration jails, Latin America, mexico, NAFTA, Nayib Bukele, News Analysis, Repression, Ronald Reagan
Josué Aguilar Valle, a Honduran national, recalls the “terrible” conditions at the migrant jails where U.S. immigration authorities imprisoned him last year. In La Salle County, Texas, Aguilar shared a frigid cell with 50 men, sleeping on the concrete floor. “I thought I was going to experience hypothermia,” he explained. Aguilar’s wife struggled to locate him…
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by Brett Wilkins | Oct 20, 2025 | Caribbean, cartels, Colombia, Donald Trump, Gustavo Petro, News, Trump Administration
The United States carried out another deadly attack on a boat it claimed was being used by a left-wing Colombian revolutionary group to transport drugs in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump alleged without evidence that Columbia’s president “is an illegal drug dealer.” Hegseth said the strike, which took place on Friday…
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