Canada: One of the ‘Biggest Gangsters in Haiti’

Catherine Hughes and Jackie McVicar Canadian Soldiers in Haiti. Photo courtesy Combat Camera/DND/Flickr. We have failed to respect the Haitian struggle for justice and self-determination The Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), founded in 1981, works in solidarity with people standing up for self-determination, social justice and for the Earth in the Americas. We have been following Canada’s…

Black Alliance for Peace Opposes CELAC Support for Military Intervention in Haiti

Black Alliance for Peace’s Haiti/Americas Team Opposes the Apparent Support of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) for Foreign Military Intervention Into Haiti Peace and Solidarity In the Region Cannot Be Achieved at the Expense of Haitian Sovereignty For Immediate Release     Media Contact communications@blackallianceforpeace.com (202) 643-1136 FEBRUARY 1, 2023—The Haiti/Americas Team…

‘We Need a Constituent Process in Peru’: An Interview with Héctor Béjar

Lautaro Rivara and Héctor Béjar Presidential hopeful for Peru Libre, Pedro Castillo, had a bumpy ride on a mare while going to his polling station in Cajamarca. With more than 60 years of leading experience in Peruvian politics, Héctor Béjar breaks down in this exclusive interview the context and motives of the coup, and presents…

Honduras: Strategy of Expulsion through Threats to the Garifuna Communities of the Bay of Tela

BLACK HONDURAN FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION, OFRANEH COMMUNIQUÉ Garífuna Territory, October 24, 2022 WE DENOUNCE: that in recent days the Garifuna communities of Tela Bay (Triunfo de la Cruz, San Juan, Tornabé, Rio Tinto and La Ensenada) face a cruel and cowardly wave of threats, persecution and attacks against the leaders, mainly against the young “Leménigi Durugubuti”,…

US in Latin America: Interference, Extortion and Blackmail in Times of Global Reconfiguration

Jorge Elbaum The disordered and brutal intentionality of the United States to control the political, economic, communicational, military and cultural orientations of Latin America is linked to the loss of its relevance in the region. Last Thursday, the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Marc Stanley, arrogated to himself the right to give his opinion on the…

Haiti: Beware of Washington’s Trap!

Berthony Dupont Haitian people have never ceased their protest of foreign domination. Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 4, 2019. (Photo by REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casare) The United States uses its puppet, the Organization of American States, to continue destabilizing Haiti. The Haitian political crisis is a concrete example of cynical manipulation by the imperialist powers. Is it an…

The US Targets Nicaragua

Camila Escalante Today, all Caricom states, with the exception of SVG, joined the U.S. and its satellite states in voting in favor of an interventionist resolution condemning the revolutionary Sandinista government for safeguarding its sovereignty and ejecting illegal foreign agents. — Camila (@camilapress) August 12, 2022 Today, all Caricom states, with the exception of SVG,…

The Era of Northern Hegemony Over Mexico is Coming to an End

Rodrigo Guillot In 2010, Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro said: “López Obrador will be the person with the most moral and political authority in Mexico when the system collapses and, with it, the empire.” He was referring to Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO), who is the current president of Mexico and head of the Morena (National…

Leaders of the Americas and the Caribbean Miss Historical Opportunity to Deal Blow to US Imperialism

Gerald A Perreira The U.S. excluded Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the recent Summit of the Americas held in Los Angeles. While there was widespread condemnation against the U.S., only six heads of state had the courage to decline the invitation. An opportunity to strike a blow against U.S. imperialism was lost. And so it…

“Summit of Exclusion” Backfires on Biden

Jill Clark-Gollub, Alina Duarte, John Perry “We would definitely have wanted a different Summit of the Americas. The silence of those absent challenges us. So that this does not happen again, I would like to state for the future that the fact of being the host country of the Summit does not grant the capacity…

Storms at the Summit of the Americas

Rosa Miriam Elizalde The 9th Summit of the Americas, in Los Angeles. (Photo: Summit of the Americas via Twitter) June 7 was a bad day for the secretary-general of the Organization of American States. During the Summit of the Americas, a young man declared to him what he is: an instigator of the coup in…

OAS ‘Murderer’ Almagro Confronted on Bolivia Coup

Kawsachun News OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro had a meltdown on Tuesday as he was confronted by a U.S. activist of the Party for Socialism and Liberation on his role in the 2019 coup in Bolivia. Almagro was called a murderer, not only for backing the dictatorship of Jeanine Añez, but was also condemned for…

For the Peoples of Our Region, the Failure of Biden’s Summit of the Americas Would Be a Welcome Event

 Ajamu Baraka Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announces he will not attend the Summit of Americas  The Summit of the Americas is not the property of the host nation. The U.S. has no right to exclude, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, but has done so in disregard of their sovereignty. The U.S. is not fit…

‘No Longer US’ Backyard,’ Latin America Sends United Message

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announces he will not attend the Summit of Americas as the US did not invite all the governments of the region during the daily morning press conference in Mexico City on June 6, 2022. Photo: AFP The Summit of the Americas scheduled to be held in Los Angeles between…

ALBA and Nicaragua: Defending Solidarity in a Divided World

Stephen Sefton Controversy has dogged this June’s United States government organized Summit of the Americas. Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela had already given up on the OAS, seriously damaging the credibility of the Organization of American States as a trustworthy hemispheric forum for the countries North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. However many countries decide…

ALBA-TCP Summit of the Americas Declaration

Kawsachun News ALBA-TCP Heads of State and Government meet in Havana. May 27, 2022. Photo: Presidencia de Cuba Cuba has once again hosted the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) for their 21st Summit. The main objectives of Friday’s…

The People’s Summit for Democracy Offers a Progressive Vision to Counter US Dominance in the Region

Sheila Xiao, Manolo De Los Santos Parallel to the exclusionary Summit of the Americas organized by the Biden Administration, people’s movements and organizations have organized the People’s Summit for Democracy to uplift diverse voices from across the region and engage in necessary dialogue Coalition organizations from the People’s Summit for Democracy marched on May Day…

Evo Morales Urges Bolivia to Withdraw from OAS as More Presidents Look to Skip Latin American Summit

Wyatt Reed The Organization of American States (OAS) is looking increasingly marginalized as Bolivia’s former president calls for the country to become the latest to leave and more presidents ponder missing Biden’s Summit Of the Americas Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales suggested Sunday that his country should leave the Organization of American States, the international organization…