Jim Hodgson
@jimhodgson.bsky.social
Journalist, retired international development worker (mostly Latin America), human rights defender. Author of a blog, www.unwrappingdevelopment.ca
I split my time between Chiapas (southern Mexico) and British Columbia (western Canada).
I split my time between Chiapas (southern Mexico) and British Columbia (western Canada).
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
www.dropsitenews.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
Faith communities send open letter urging preservation of El Salvador’s historic ban on metals mining
Open Letter Urges Preservation of El Salvador's Historic Ban on Metals Mining - Institute for Policy Studies
153 faith-based organizations from 25 countries call upon the Salvadoran government to reject metals mining projects that would threaten Salvadoran communities.
ips-dc.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Faith communities send open letter urging preservation of El Salvador’s historic ban on metals mining
Reposted by Jim Hodgson
Charlie Angus denounces conservative attacks on Canada’s multiculturalism, "multi-genderism" and multilateralism.
The Conservative "Multiverse" Attack on Canada
At a time when global instability is rising, you would think that it would be patently obvious that Canada’s longstanding tradition of international engagement matters more than ever.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Charlie Angus denounces conservative attacks on Canada’s multiculturalism, "multi-genderism" and multilateralism.
As Hondurans head to the polls Sunday, Trump says he will grant a pardon to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.
This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.
Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving US sentence after drug trafficking conviction
President Donald Trump said he will grant a pardon to former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking an...
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
As Hondurans head to the polls Sunday, Trump says he will grant a pardon to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.
This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
Trump endorsed the nominee of the right-wing party, while pledging to pardon its most recent president, who sits in U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.
www.dropsitenews.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.
The “feminist foreign policy” is dead. What next?
A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.
unwrappingdevelopment.ca
November 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.
Not in every instance, but this is pretty much what happened.
Was the Pentecostal Boom in Latin America a CIA Psyop?
Capitalism, Protestant Missions, and the War on Liberation Theology
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Not in every instance, but this is pretty much what happened.
Michelle Ellner: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela open.substack.com/pub/codepink...
How to topple Elliot Abrams’ delusion: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela
Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Michelle Ellner: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela open.substack.com/pub/codepink...
70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' www.commondreams.org/news/america...
70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' | Common Dreams
"It should come as no surprise by now that the president who campaigned on keeping the US out of wars and then promptly bombed Iran has now found another conflict in which to embroil the country."
www.commondreams.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' www.commondreams.org/news/america...
Roger Harris in Popular Resistance: The United States combines open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives. #SanctionsKill #HandsOffVenezuela
Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths At Sea; Hundreds Of Thousands By Sanctions - PopularResistance.Org
Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls Operation Southern Spear. On Oct...
popularresistance.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Roger Harris in Popular Resistance: The United States combines open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives. #SanctionsKill #HandsOffVenezuela
A brilliant, heart-breaking story:
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A brilliant, heart-breaking story:
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Economist Jeffrey Sachsnotes that regime change is a “core tool of US foreign policy.” The overt military attacks on Venezuela and the more covert ones planned for Honduras are part of the same imperial game plan. popularresistance.org/the-quiet-pl...
The Quiet Plot To End Progressive Government In Honduras - PopularResistance.Org
Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean grabs the headlines, while quieter moves to destabilize other progressive Latin American governments go unnoticed by corporate media. A key case is a plot th...
popularresistance.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Economist Jeffrey Sachsnotes that regime change is a “core tool of US foreign policy.” The overt military attacks on Venezuela and the more covert ones planned for Honduras are part of the same imperial game plan. popularresistance.org/the-quiet-pl...
Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.
Labour, development NGOs demand Canada condemn U.S. boat attacks in Caribbean
Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.
unwrappingdevelopment.ca
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.
Reposted by Jim Hodgson
Canadian organizations with decades of experience and partnerships in the Americas sent a letter to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social, @manindersidhu.bsky.social, Minister McGuinty urging them to protect the rule of law, sovereignty and security in Latin America and the Caribbean. bit.ly/3K03kv9
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Canadian organizations with decades of experience and partnerships in the Americas sent a letter to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social, @manindersidhu.bsky.social, Minister McGuinty urging them to protect the rule of law, sovereignty and security in Latin America and the Caribbean. bit.ly/3K03kv9
Reposted by Jim Hodgson
Noah Bullock, executive director of El Salvador’s human rights monitor, Cristosal, speaks about the human rights abuses and torture in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT):
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...
“You Have Arrived in Hell”: Venezuelans Sent By U.S. to El Salvador Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse
252 Venezuelan immigrants in the United States were flown to El Salvador in the dead of night and indefinitely imprisoned at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center. The det...
www.democracynow.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Noah Bullock, executive director of El Salvador’s human rights monitor, Cristosal, speaks about the human rights abuses and torture in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT):
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...
Charlie Angus noticed what Anand said in response to Trump’s violence. (Read all the way to the end.)
Herman Göring Is Having a Moment
Herman Göring is having a moment.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Charlie Angus noticed what Anand said in response to Trump’s violence. (Read all the way to the end.)
As we watch with horror the U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean and threats against Venezuela, CodePink provides an excellent summary of past U.S. regime change disasters.
"Regime change” in Venezuela is a euphemism for U.S.-inflicted carnage and chaos
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
As we watch with horror the U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean and threats against Venezuela, CodePink provides an excellent summary of past U.S. regime change disasters.
Canada is cutting foreign aid while increasing its military spending. As other rich countries do the same, what does the future hold for "international development?"
“Security for whom?” asks KAIROS after Canada cuts foreign aid
Canada is cutting foreign aid while increasing its military spending. As other rich countries do the same, what does the future hold for "international development?"
unwrappingdevelopment.ca
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Canada is cutting foreign aid while increasing its military spending. As other rich countries do the same, what does the future hold for "international development?"
Rev. Emilie Smith’s reflections on Day One of #COP30. She is in Belem with the Latin American ecumenical justice group SICSAL.
Day One
COP30 Underway
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Rev. Emilie Smith’s reflections on Day One of #COP30. She is in Belem with the Latin American ecumenical justice group SICSAL.
It's in the realm of Latin American historical novels that Chris Hedges finds apt description of the space Trump occupies in the public imagination.
America is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It's in the realm of Latin American historical novels that Chris Hedges finds apt description of the space Trump occupies in the public imagination.
Zohran Mamdani: a victory for the global left
He won over half the vote, defying the opinion polls, and he is the first mayoral candidate to win over a million votes since John Lindsay in 1969.
He won over half the vote, defying the opinion polls, and he is the first mayoral candidate to win over a million votes since John Lindsay in 1969.
Zohran Mamdani: a victory for the global left
In an age of resurgent fascism, the left can fight back and win
www.owenjones.news
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Zohran Mamdani: a victory for the global left
He won over half the vote, defying the opinion polls, and he is the first mayoral candidate to win over a million votes since John Lindsay in 1969.
He won over half the vote, defying the opinion polls, and he is the first mayoral candidate to win over a million votes since John Lindsay in 1969.
Reposted by Jim Hodgson
A Conversation with David Abdulah: A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region.
progressive.international/wire/2025-11...
progressive.international/wire/2025-11...
The Caribbean’s Zone of Peace Under Threat: A Conversation with David Abdulah
A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region.
progressive.international
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A Conversation with David Abdulah: A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region.
progressive.international/wire/2025-11...
progressive.international/wire/2025-11...
BILLIONARIES FOR CUOMO, WORKERS FOR MAMDANI
They say Mamdani lacks experience. But experience in what? In managing a city that works only for the rich? In balancing budgets on the backs of the poor?
They say Mamdani lacks experience. But experience in what? In managing a city that works only for the rich? In balancing budgets on the backs of the poor?
BILLIONARIES FOR CUOMO, WORKERS FOR MAMDANI
THAT SAYS IT ALL
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
BILLIONARIES FOR CUOMO, WORKERS FOR MAMDANI
They say Mamdani lacks experience. But experience in what? In managing a city that works only for the rich? In balancing budgets on the backs of the poor?
They say Mamdani lacks experience. But experience in what? In managing a city that works only for the rich? In balancing budgets on the backs of the poor?
The New Gunboat Diplomacy
La Jornada Internacional looks at Trump's revival of 19th century gunboat "diplomacy" in the Caribbean and Latin America. Excellent summary in English of what's really going on.
La Jornada Internacional looks at Trump's revival of 19th century gunboat "diplomacy" in the Caribbean and Latin America. Excellent summary in English of what's really going on.
The New Gunboat Diplomacy
Also: Farmers can’t take it anymore. Graciela Iturbide: photography and the interpretation of reality. More books by women, demanded of the FCE. The 13 years that changed the course of Chichén Itzá.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The New Gunboat Diplomacy
La Jornada Internacional looks at Trump's revival of 19th century gunboat "diplomacy" in the Caribbean and Latin America. Excellent summary in English of what's really going on.
La Jornada Internacional looks at Trump's revival of 19th century gunboat "diplomacy" in the Caribbean and Latin America. Excellent summary in English of what's really going on.