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The Mexican Health Care System Under the Administration of AMLO

WEBIMSS was an integrated system of pensions and health care services with access mandated for all Mexican citizens. With IMSS, Mexico became one of the first …

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The Right to Live in Health and Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing

WEBIn The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana (University of North Carolina, 2020), Daniel A. Rodríguez provides a medical history of …

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The State of Latin American Health Cooperation NACLA

WEBThe international health cooperation system is increasingly at the mercy of conflicting interests and disputes. It has proven ineffective in solving pressing problems …

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Defending the Right to Health in Colombia NACLA

WEBDefending the Right to Health in Colombia. Almost 20 years ago, Colombia began a series of neoliberal reforms that gave control of the health care system to private insurance …

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To Save Haitian Lives, Global Health Leaders Call for Solidarity

WEBO ver the past few months, Haiti has struggled to cope with a chain of devastating human-made and natural catastrophes, including the brutal July 7 murder of …

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Dropping Dobbs: A Victory for Media Activism, and the Challenge …

WEBAfter years of criticism and months of campaigning by media activists, Lou Dobbs finally made his exit from CNN. On the November 11 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, the …

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Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico's Sacrifice Zone NACLA

WEBIn 2021, residents of Puerto Rico’s Jobos Bay are experiencing a version of this climate apartheid. Perhaps uncoincidentally, on December 10, 2017, Alston visited …

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Bigger Than Ever

WEBS unday, April 12, was supposed to be bigger than ever before. The same groups that organized Brazil’s March 15 demonstrations against Dilma Rousseff’s …

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Cuba’s HIV Sanatoriums: Prisons or Public Health Tool

WEBThe article quoted a New York City doctor that had visited Havana, who called the institutions “pleasant but frightening,” and that their use as a public health …

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Garbage, Health, and Well-Being in Managua NACLA

WEBGarbage, Health, and Well-Being in Managua. A boy sorting through plastic at La Chureca. Nov. 16th, 2010. Photo by Timothy Bouldry. Long described as a city “drowning in …

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Officials Conceal Conditions at Guatemala Mental Health

WEBThe conditions at Federico Mora reflect the country’s attitude towards people with disabilities. Guatemala has no dedicated mental health legislation, and mental …

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BRAZIL Activists Take on AIDS NACLA

WEBSeveral times each hour on prime- time television, the Brazilian govem- ment's latest and flashiest AIDS adver- tisement punctuates the commercials between telenovelas, rock …

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Experimenting on Guatemala NACLA

WEBMedical records released in 2011 from the 1946-1948 studies that infected over 1,000 Guatemalans with syphilis (National Archives) Federico Ramos Meza was …

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New & Noteworthy NACLA

WEBSpeaking From the Body: Latinas on Health and Culture, edited by Angie Chabram-Dernersesian and Adela de la Torre, the University of Arizona Press (2008), 264 pp., …

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Stories in the Time of Cholera: Race and Public Health in …

WEBIn 1992 and 1993 some five hundred people died in the maze of rivers and thousands of large and small islands that form the delta region of the Orinoco River in eastern …

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Bolivia’s Plurinational Healthcare Revolution Will Not Be Defeated

WEBT he simple, two-room Qullañ Uta Traditional Medicine Center is located several blocks from La Paz’s famous Mercado de Las Brujas, or Witches’ Market, known …

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The Rise and Fall of Barrio Adentro NACLA

WEBLeer este artículo en español. B arrio Adentro was a cornerstone of Bolivarian Venezuela’s national social programs. Established by the Chávez government in 2003 to redress …

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Cuba: Health Care as Social Justice NACLA

WEBCuba: Health Care as Social Justice. Tweet. Elise Andaya. September 1, 2009. ¡Salud! (DVD, 2006), a documentary film by Connie Field, 93 mins., distributed by MEDICC …

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Pandemic Worsens Working Conditions in Brazil’s Informal Care …

WEBPandemic Worsens Working Conditions in Brazil’s Informal Care Economy. Deemed essential workers during the Covid-19 public health emergency in Brazil, …

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The Roots of the National Strike in Honduras: An Interview with …

WEBAs Honduran teachers and doctors resist the neoliberal restructuring of health and education services, educator and organizer Bayron Rodríguez Pineda …

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COVID-19 Drives Unlikely Changes in Paraguay NACLA

WEBAs Paraguay fights off a global pandemic, the govenment is debating—perhaps misplaced—reform. As Paraguay enters its fifth week of total …

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Brazil's Vulnerable Left Behind in the Pandemic NACLA

WEBA s numbers of COVID-19 cases in Brazil steadily rise into the thousands, favela community leaders in vulnerable communities have raised concerns about the …

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