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Latin America
See also FAIR's resources on Haiti and the Contra-Crack Scandal.Extra! articles:
- The FTAA Is None of Your Business: Media look away as democracy is traded away, by Rachel Coen (01-02/03)
- Spotlighting (Some) Venezuela Killings: Deaths during pro-Chavez protests don't interest New York Times, by Rachel Coen (7-8/02)
- Scandal, What Scandal? Bush's Iran-Contra appointees are barely a story, By Terry J. Allen (9-10/01)
- The Elian Saga: An Oral History (6/00)
- Colombia's Cocaine Shell Game: Media are leading the U.S. into a civil war in the name of the "war on drugs", by Peter Hart (5-6/00)
- Castro Wants the Kid Back: Favorite Themes of "Cuban Boy" Coverage, by Lisa Tozzi (3-4/00)
- Selling Social Insecurity: Stossel Embraces Pinochet’s Pension Privatizer, by Fred J. Solowey (3-4/98)
- Iraqgate: Confession and Cover-Up, by Robert Parry (5-6/95)
- Fraudulent Reporting: U.S. Media on the Mexican Elections, by Mark Cook (11-12/94)
- Walsh Report's Scandalous Coverage (4/94)
- Iran-Contra: Sweep It Away (3/93)
- The Objective Reporter's Lexicon: We, Us, Our, by Mark Cook and Jeff Cohen (1-2/90)
- Censored News: Oliver North & Co. Banned From Costa Rica (10-11/89)
- Questionnaire for the New York Times on Its Central America Coverage (1-2/88)
- The Return of Otto Reich: Will Government Propagandist Join Bush Administration?, by Jeff Cohen (6/8/01)
- Financial Times Reporter "Can't Possibly Be Neutral" (6/6/03)
- U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move (4/18/02)
- New York Times Covering for Colombian Death Squads (2/9/01)
- AP's Inadequate Investigation: Bolivia reporter's conflicts glossed over (11/2/00)
- AP Should Come Clean About Reporter's Conflicts Following Resignation (10/26/00)
- Jim Lobe on Rumsfeld & Latin America (12/3/04)
- Mark Weisbrot on Venezuela's Chavez referendum (8/20/04)
- Mark Weisbrot on Brazil Elections (9/27/02)
- Daniel Hellinger on Venezuela Coup (4/19/02)
- Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on the Office of Information Awareness (3/8/02)
- Mario Murillo on Colombia (3/1/02)
- Mark Weisbrot on Argentina (1/11/02)
- Robin Cook & Steve Dudley on Colombia (12/28/01)
- Michael Marx McCarthy on Nicaraguan Elections (11/9/01)
- Michael Evans on Peru Shoot Down (4/27/01)
- Danny Schechter on "48 Hours" on Berenson (11/17/00)
- Al Giordano on AP's Bolivia Conflict (10/20/00)
- David Brooks on Mexican Election (6/23/00)
- Ann Louise Bardach on Elian (4/28/00)
- Coletta Youngers on Latin America (2/25/00)
- Juan Gonzalez on Test-Bombing in Puerto Rico (8/20/99)
- Carlos Salinas on Colombia (8/13/99)
- Allan Nairn on the Guatemalan truth commission (3/5/99)
- Chiapas Part I (3/10/98)
- Chiapas Part II (3/10/98)
- Greed and racism shape Chiapas media coverage (1/16/98)
- Is violence in Chiapas part of a governmental plan? (1/9/98)
- Alice's New Adventures In Medialand (4/18/02)
- When We Forget, Anguish Is Often Buried Alive (12/3/98)
- Media and Memory: The Arrest of a Dictator (10/22/98)
- U.S.-Mexico Military Ties: Unexamined and Growing (5/16/96)
- June 19, 2000 (Argentina)
- January 24, 2000 (Brazil)
- January 17, 2000 (Ecuador)
- December 20, 1999 (Venezuela)
- August 9, 1999 (recession)
- June 7, 1999 (Argentina)
- May 31, 1999 (Brazil)
- May 24, 1999 (Mexico)
- May 10, 1999 (Chile)
- April 19, 1999 (Brazil)
- February 1, 1999 (Brazil)
- January 25, 1999 (Brazil)
- January 18, 1999 (Brazil)
- All the News That Fits: The New York Times and Colombia, featuring analysis by FAIR's Peter Hart (Drug Reform Coordination Network's The Week Online, 7/21/00).
- Framing Colombia's War by Dennis Hans
- Chiapas Media Project. Promoting independent media in the rebellious Mexican state.
- Survival International. Extensive news and background on the indigenous struggles of Latin America.
- Colombia Support Network.
- Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Alternative views on current events in Latin America (and Canada).
- Latin America Links from NACLA.
- Rebelion. Periódico Electrónico de Información Alternativa (Spanish).
- Resource Center of the Americas. News geared to activism.
- School of the Americas Watch.
- Washington Office on Latin America.
- Narco News. A website that covers U.S. drug policy in Latin America.
- Newspapers, Magazines, and News Sites in English in South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean, and US Dependencies, from world-newspapers.com
- New York Times and Washington Post Fail to Do Homework on UNAM Crisis. An analysis from Global Exchange.
- The Narco News Bulletin Reporting on the drug war from Latin America.