Greg Dunkel Despite widespread protests that it will spread the pandemic, the Trump administration’s ICE officials plans to continue deporting COVID-positive Haitians and other immigrants on Swift Air jets, like the one pictured here. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security agency charged with deporting people from the United States, scheduled 100…
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Declaration of the Virtual Meeting of the São Paulo Forum Working Group: “Anti-Imperialist Unity and Solidarity in the Face of the Pandemic”
On May 8, 2020, for the first time, a Meeting by videoconference of the Sao Paulo Forum Working Group was held with the participation of 23 member parties from 14 countries, organized by the Executive Secretariat and the Workers’ Party of Brazil, which we appreciate and recognize as an important initiative that contributes to coordinate…
Indigenous People of Latin America in the COVID-19 Era
Gerardo Szalkowicz Without basic services, excluded by the health system, without documentation to access social programs, and with roads cut off from food supplies, how does the pandemic impact on indigenous communities in Latin America? “In this pandemic we are not all in the same boat, we are all in the same sea; some in…
Resisting COVID-19 in Haiti
Pierre Labossiere On March 19, 2020, shortly after international institutions made known that millions of dollars would be available to impoverished countries with COVID-19 cases, Haitian authorities finally addressed the coronavirus pandemic by declaring that there were two cases in the country. People in Haiti were outraged by the silence and inaction of the authorities…
Central American Migration: Causes and Challenges
Pablo Jofre Leal What drives millions of human beings to travel long distances, to cross mountains, to ford rivers, to walk in the humid heat or endure torrential rains, to leave their homes, their families, the social environment in which they live, to seek new horizons, better prospects in life? When this question is asked…
CIA Covert Operations: The 1964 Overthrow of Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana
Cheddi Jagan speaking Declassified Documents Explore Little-Known Political Coup in Latin America Washington, DC, April 6, 2020 – Cold War concerns about another Communist Cuba in Latin America drove President John F. Kennedy to approve a covert CIA political campaign to rig national elections in British Guiana, then a British colony but soon to be independent,…
Bolivia, African and Indigenous Unity Across Borders: An Interview with Pambana Bassett
Cindy Forster The affinities of the original peoples and the peoples of the African Diaspora are profound. At the same time they are odious to those in power. Journalists and people from the grassroots are always searching for our sisters and brothers in struggle, which is why we went to Bolivia. Nothing happens in Bolivia…
Haiti: From the 1804 Revolution to the Current Crisis
Diana Carolina Alfonso and Lautaro Rivara A brief revolution and a never-ending counter-revolution It is difficult for us to understand Haitian social formation and the deep crisis of the neocolonial, neoliberal and post-state model behind it, without situating ourselves at the exact point of a long parable of re-colonization of the country, in what constitutes…
How Latin America and the Caribbean are Dealing with COVID-19
Zoe PC The government of Jair Bolsonaro has been severely criticized for its flawed handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, an image of Bolsonaro failing to put on a mask properly is screened on a building as a mark of protest. Photo: Brasil De Fato Worldwide, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 is close…
The Feminist Spring and the Patriarchal Counter-Offensive
Irene León One of the most relevant contemporary political events is the positioning of feminism as a transforming force with a global scope, achieved both by its contributions to the mobilization of ideas to apprehend reality and act upon it, and by the political and strategic action that, as the core of all change, is…
Haiti by the Numbers, Ten Years Later
Jake Johnston The Haitian National Palace crumbled during the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. Number of government ministry buildings that stood after the earthquake: 1 Magnitude of earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010: 7.0 Years since an earthquake of that magnitude struck Haiti: 168 Number of aftershocks, over 4.5 magnitude, in the week after…
Dividing the Caribbean: A New U.S. Strategy
Enrique Moreno Gimeranez“Divide and conquer” was a phrase used by both the Roman emperor Julius Caesar and France’s Napoleon Bonaparte. Despite differences with the military tactics used by these historical figures, this approach seems to be the United States’ political strategy toward Latin America and the Caribbean, in another desperate attempt to divide peoples south…
