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BILLIONAIRE-backed NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has come under fire for lobbying the US government to increase sanctions on Latin American countries as they struggle to fight the spread of coronavirus.
Writing for US news website The Grayzone, journalist Ben Norton accused the organisation of “proudly taking credit for crushing new US sanctions on Nicaragua” while pressing for the escalation of “Washington’s economic war on Venezuela.”
HRW Australia development and outreach manager Stephanie McLennan has previously described the new range of sanctions on Nicaragua as “great news.”
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance