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Autocracy is rising in the west. But the global south proves it’s not inevitable | Kenneth Roth
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/26/autocracy-west-democracy-global-south
Published: February 26, 2026 13:00
While some who have lived their entire lives under democracy seem willing to forsake it, many who have experienced life under autocracy want outThere is plenty to worry about in the global contest between democracy and autocracy. Iran’s violent repression…
Landslides on one side, floods on the other: the Costa Rican village desperate to escape the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/03/landslides-flooding-costa-rica-san-jose
Published: February 3, 2026 14:00
With government action stalled and living in ‘inhumane’ conditions, families in San José are making plans to relocateIn Emilio Peña Delgado’s home, several photos hang on the wall. One shows him standing in front of a statue with his wife and oldest son in…
Sanctions are not a humane alternative to bombs. They are economic warfare with civilians as collateral damage | Kenneth Mohammed
Published: January 28, 2026 07:00
In the Caribbean and Latin America, the lived reality of these measures – presented in the language of diplomacy – is starkAcross borders, cultures and faiths, most ordinary people want the same things: the ability to earn a living, put a roof over their…
Brutal, vibrant and creative: capturing the soul of Latin America in 100 photographs
Published: January 12, 2026 13:00
The journalist Paulo Antonio Paranaguá uses images from the turbulent continent to weave a history of the region, covering colonisation, slavery and dictatorshipIts tumultuous past, marked by massacres, slavery, violent domination, coups d’état,…
Nicaraguan authorities arrest dozens for reportedly supporting Maduro capture
Published: January 10, 2026 07:25
Human rights groups say ‘at least 60 arbitrary arrests’ have occurred for celebrating the US military operationAuthorities in Nicaragua have arrested at least 60 people for reportedly celebrating or expressing support for the capture of Venezuelan…
Thousands face deportation to danger as Trump targets temporary protections
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/22/temporary-protected-status-tps-immigration-trump
Published: August 22, 2025 14:00
People with temporary protected status face possible deportation even though their home countries – including Afghanistan and Haiti – remain unsafeMany thousands of immigrants living in the US who came from certain countries regarded as risky or dangerous…
US court allows Trump officials to end protected status for 60,000 migrants
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/appeals-court-trump-temporary-protected-status
Published: August 20, 2025 21:48
Administration officials given legal right to move towards deportation of people from Nepal, Honduras and NicaraguaA federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court’s order that had kept in place…
Trump ends deportation protections for people from Honduras and Nicaragua
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/trump-tps-honduras-nicaragua
Published: July 7, 2025 20:07
DHS said it would terminate temporary protected status for an estimated 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 NicaraguansThe Trump administration has ended temporary protections for people from Honduras and Nicaragua in the latest phase of its effort to expel…
Critic of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega shot dead in Costa Rica
Published: June 20, 2025 15:35
Retired army officer Roberto Samcam was killed in San José by gunmen, the latest of several attacks on Ortega’s criticsA retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile turned fierce critic of the country’s authoritarian president Daniel Ortega has been shot dead…
Violeta Chamorro obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/15/violeta-chamorro-obituary
Published: June 15, 2025 14:49
First female president of Nicaragua who won a surprise victory over Daniel Ortega and served her country in the 1990sLike her political contemporary Corazon Aquino in the Philippines, Violeta Chamorro, who has died aged 95, was thrust into the limelight in…
Supreme court allows White House to revoke temporary protected status of many migrants
Published: May 30, 2025 19:02
Ruling reverses hold on Trump administration’s ending humanitarian parole of Venezuelan migrants and othersThe US supreme court on Friday announced it would allow the Trump administration to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of…
What is temporary protected status and who is affected by Trump’s crackdown?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/what-is-temporary-protected-status
Published: May 20, 2025 23:40
The Biden administration dramatically expanded TPS, but it is the latest target in Trump’s anti-immigrant crusadeMillions of people live legally in the United States under various forms of temporary legal protection. Many have been targeted in the Trump…
US ex-ambassadors warn of slide into authoritarianism amid ‘climate of fear’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/former-us-ambassadors-warn-authoritarianism
Published: April 30, 2025 16:25
Four ex-heads of US embassies in nations that swung from democracies to dictatorships say landscape eerily familiarThe US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, former ambassadors to countries…
Court temporarily blocks Trump bid to cancel legal status of 500,000 migrants
Published: April 15, 2025 15:59
The program, set to expire on 24 April, aids migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and VenezuelaA judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate a Biden-era program that granted legal status to migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua,…
A Nicaraguan asylum seeker checked in with Ice every week. He was arrested anyway
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/trump-ice-deportation-nicaragua
Published: April 6, 2025 14:00
Alberto Lovo Rojas fled violence in his home country. Now, he fears Trump-backed deportationIt finally happened while he was waiting to get his hair cut.Alberto Lovo Rojas, an asylum seeker from Nicaragua, had been feeling uneasy for weeks, worried that…
Trump revokes legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/trump-revoke-legal-status-cuban-haitian-nicaraguan
Published: March 21, 2025 21:38
Move takes effect on 24 April as president weighs also stripping parole status from some 240,000 Ukrainians in USThe Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that it would revoke the temporary legal status of more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians,…
‘Melt Ice’: protesters in New York rally against Trump’s anti-immigrant policies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/new-york-protest-trump-immigration-policies
Published: February 14, 2025 01:24
Crowds, including undocumented people, take to streets in fierce show of resistance against immigration crackdownsCrowds of demonstrators including undocumented people took to the streets of downtown Manhattan on Thursday in a fierce show of resistance…
Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/authoritarian-usaid-elon-musk
Published: February 6, 2025 19:13
Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrateMoscow has welcomed the impending dissolution of USAid, joining a chorus of strongman leaders declaring victory over an organisation they have…
Trump’s blitz of new policies gives anti-immigration beliefs a troubling platform
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/trump-immigration-policies
Published: January 21, 2025 21:12
Trump’s agenda is clear: keep people out or make them pay. The US’s fabric as a nation of immigrants is tearing apartImmigrants, refugees and asylum seekers hoping for a safe haven to build a life in the United States awoke to a blistering reality on…
Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica
Published: January 17, 2025 06:00
As one of the tens of thousands to have fled Daniel Ortega’s regime, singer and ‘artivist’ Olguita Acuña says she has a duty to raise awareness of her country’s situationWhen Olguita Acuña starts singing and playing guitar, the audience in San José, Costa…