Latin America Videos

President Obama is expected to announce that he will be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan next week. In the wake of that decision, discussion of the consequences of United States intervention around the world becomes even more important. It's not only wars that produce blowback for the US; training and funding for right-leaning groups in Latin America has been a long-standing source of resentment and anger around the world. Today on GRITtv, we look back at the effects of US intervention in Latin America and connect the patterns to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq with Christian Parenti, Nation contributor and author of The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror , Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American she was released, he was not. Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi follows Parenti when he returns to Afghanistan to tell Naqshbandi's story, and we feature it here. Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill notes that the war in Afghanistan is "hemorrhaging" into Pakistan. In his latest bombshell story on the private security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, published Monday at TheNation.com, Scahill details Blackwater's covert activities, which are unaccountable to Congress in way that even CIA activities are not. He joined Laura in the studio to talk about the way the war is creeping across borders and continues to involve unaccountable private contractors.

The School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Georgia, has long been a training facility for Latin American military officers, many of whom have gone on to be involved in gross human rights violations. A graduate of the SOA is one of the coup leaders in Honduras. Twenty years ago last week, SOA graduates massacred six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador. We look back at the effects of US intervention in Latin America and connect the patterns to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq with Christian Parenti, Nation contributor and author of The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror , Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies at John Jay College in New York, and Bill Quigley, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage.

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Since 2006, McKesson has partnered with humanitarian organization World Vision to provide more than 175,000 World Vision Caregiver Kits to local community caregivers who care for those living with AIDS in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The announcement that the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, would be returned to power in a power-sharing agreement seems to have come too soon. In this video from The Real News, we learn that the agreement seems to be doing more to legitimize the coup government than to get rid of it. Citizen activists' end goal is not only restoration of the democratically-elected president but also a constituent assembly to rewrite a constitution that largely favors those with wealth and power, and they are still fighting despite pressure from outside and restrictions from Micheletti's coup regime.

Every year, a team of U.S. doctors travel to Jalapa, Guatemala with Latin American Medical Providers (LAMP) where they treat some of poorest people in the region. In just under one week, the team sees over 1,000 patients and do up to 80 surgeries for people who couldn't normally afford treatment.