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Jeff Abbott is an independent journalist and photographer covering social movements and human rights in Mexico and Central America. His work has been featured in Truthout, The Progressive, Upsidedown World and many others. In this interview we talk about Honduran resistance to the Juan Orlando Hernandez regime, Berta Caceres and environmental activism, Guatemala's 36-year war, and more.

So when the attack began, people were concerned. One of my friends was like, c'mon Jeff. We gotta go, we gotta go. And my thought was, document, document, document, document.

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There is no armed resistance. The guerillas laid down their arms and entered into the Peace Accords. But the war transformed into another counter-insurgency. Today you see the same issues arising in a different context. The question of land. The history of Guatemala is the struggle over land.

 

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Indigenous communities carry on Berta Cacéres’ work by defending nature and health care in Honduras by Jeff Abbott

A Victory Against Ecocide in Guatemala: Activist Pressure Forces Nestlé to Drop Destructive Palm Oil Producer by Jeff Abbott

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In this Valentine's edition French-Canadian traveller Gigi shares some of her experiences in Quetzaltenango Guatemala.

Xela, when you have it in your heart it's hard to take it out of your heart. It's a great place.

 

 

 

 

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A young protester walks in front of a burning barricade on December 15. This photo that accompanies my most recent article for the Progressive. #photojournalism #photooftheday #streetphotography #photograpghy #everydaylatinamerica #everydayhonduras

Une publication partagée par Jeff Abbott (@lejann) le 28 Déc. 2017 à 4 :40 PST

HONDURAS—“This isn't an inauguration it's an imposition of an illegal president elected through fraud," an opposition supporter said. “They waste money on teargas when this country doesn't even have medicine in our hospitals." My report on JOH swearing in. https://t.co/XqOrZiO3Oe pic.twitter.com/efzoHg3c67

— Heather Gies (@HeatherGies) January 27, 2018

"He was still breathing, but in my heart I knew I was going to lose him," said Virgilio Yareth Ávila's mother. Her 16-year-old son was shot in the head by police during a crackdown on protests. He's one of dozens killed.

Here's my latest, from #Honduras: https://t.co/KVNhWBIs4I

— Sandra Cuffe (@Sandra_Cuffe) January 24, 2018

 

 

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Behind the News (Jacobin podcast episode with Sandra Cuffe)

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Hondurans Are Out on a One-Week General Strike. Their Grievance? A U.S.-Backed Dictatorship

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Declaration of the People of the Caribbean

Super Blue Blood Moon 2018: When, Where and How to See It on Jan. 31

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¡Gracias a todos los oyentes y a todos los que me ayudaron a superar este año! ¡Bendiciones en 2018 y más allá, estad atentos! | Thanks to all listeners and everyone who helped me make it through this year! Blessings in 2018 and beyond, stay tuned!

 

 

 

 

 

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This episode was produced in solidarity with the women organizing against violence in Central America. In June, Cat Walker (Witness for Peace) posted this report from Honduras from which we learn some alarming statistics: "every 30 minutes a woman is sexually assaulted; every 16 hours a woman is killed; less than 4 percent of femicide cases result in convictions; most sex crimes are not even investigated." Fast forward to November. In Quetaltenango, Guatemala the feminist collective Todas Contra La Violencia just hosted their second annual festival at Casa Noj in their continuing efforts to end gender violence.

We hold energy in our bodies.  The life that we have can really connect to the lives of others.  I think this is the beauty of this festival

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1:36 Report from Cat Walker June 2017 Day 3 in Honduras: San Pedro Sula, Honduras

3:25 November 2017: Festival Todas Contra La Violencia, Quetzaltenango Guatemala

6:20 Interview: Valeria Ayerdi

13:04 Interview: Anabella Acevedo

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Disaster Capitalism in the U.S. Territories

Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands were hit hard by hurricanes Irma and Maria. The two category five storms arrived within two weeks of each other, complicating relief efforts. To make matters even worse, the current U.S. president seems to lack even the most basic knowledge of these Caribbean islands, much less the efficiency and effectiveness required to rebuild infrastructure and restore basic services to its citizens. Adding insult to injury, the president tweeted about Puerto Rico's Wall Street obligations, played golf, and delayed taking urgent action while people were dying.

In some ways I'm literally more afraid of the re-development process

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We're colonized but we don't really speak about the United States as a colonizer on a day-to-day basis. We obviously need this help and this aid in the aftermath of Irma and Maria. So how do we tend to negotiate some of these questions of meeting our basic needs while aslo clearly parsing out how exactly we are being disposessed by the very aid that we need

In this interview Hadiya Sewer talks about the importance of mental health in the face of adversity, power relationships in parenting and empires, and the question of how to dismantle the strucural racism of American colonialism while taking care of the more pressing needs of rebuilding.

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Fare of the Free Child Podcast

Bill Moyers Interview with Yarimar Bonilla

Unsettling the Colonality of American Power in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Notes on Being a Demonic Black Radical Feminist Kiljoy by Hadiya Sewer (Mocko)

Hadiya Sewer at Bajo el Sol Gallery, St. John (April, 2017)

What it's really like on the ground in Puerto Rico

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Today is International Podcast Day! To help celebrate I've created a few lists with some of my favorite podcasts. Here they are in no particular order:

Spanish/Espanol

* El Gran Apagon (Podium)

* Historias de Medianoche (Podium)

* Grandes Entrevistas (Podium)

* Radio Ambulante (NPR)

* News in Slow Spanish (Linguistica 360)

Political Comedy

* The TARFU Report

* Politically Reactive (Earwolf)

Black Podcasts Matter

* Another Round (Buzzfeed)

* 2 Dope Queens (WNYC)

* The Extraordinary Negroes

* Kamau Right Now (KALW)

* Tea with Queen and J

Top 5 Politics Podcasts

* Alternative Radio (KGNU)

* Belabored (Dissent Magazine)

* Intercepted (The Intercept)

* The Dig (Jacobin Magazine)

* Radio Dispatch (BTR)

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EntreMundos Magazine/Revista EntreMundos-Sept/Oct 2017

Interview/Entrevista: Diana Pastor, Editor EntreMundos Magazine/Editora de le Revista EntreMundos

‘The State is Broken’ in Guatemala and Only Social Movements Can Fix It (Upside Down World)

Guatemalans Wage Nonviolent Resistance Against Crisis Created by a Criminal State

Come September by Arundhati Roy

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