Articles and Essays by Mark Engler

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Grading the Obama Administration on Honduras: D

How the White House botched its response to the Honduran coup.

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Will the Winds of Change Reach El Salvador?

The prospect of progressive leadership coming to power in El Salvador’s March 15 presidential elections should prompt new U.S. policy toward Central America.

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Can the Left Win in El Salvador?

A Joint Report on the 2009 Presidential Elections in El Salvador, With a Contribution by Mark Engler.

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Obama Should Stay Tough on Trade

The general elections are not time for an embrace of the “corporate globalization” agenda for the Americas

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Latin America Banks on Independence

The new Bank of the South assaults neoliberal economics

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Progressive Good Tidings of 2007

Along with political challenges, the past year offered some hopeful advances– many of which came just in last few weeks.

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Bush’s Latin American Spring Break

The President’s trip south of the border will do little to sway a region that is demanding fairer economic policies.

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2006: A Global Justice Year in Review

The past 12 months brought some promising developments on the globalization front.

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The Return of Daniel Ortega (in Arabic)

Despite Ortega’s many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the “savage capitalism” of the previous regime can genuinely benefit Nicaragua’s poor. (Translation into Arabic by ahewar.org)

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The Return of Daniel Ortega

Despite Ortega’s many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the “savage capitalism” of the previous regime can genuinely benefit Nicaragua’s poor.