Latin America & the Caribbean

Venezuelan government stops U.S.-backed coup attempt

Ever since Comandante Hugo Chavez became president of Venezuela in 1998 and the Bolivarian Revolution began, there has been no…

February 16, 2015

Haitians demand relief 5 years after quake

Five years ago, after a catastrophic earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital,…

January 16, 2015

Haiti protests continue despite U.N. troops’ bullets

All over Haiti, people by the tens of thousands are putting their bodies in the streets and their lives on…

December 28, 2014

Indigenous peoples, climate activists march in Lima

Some 15,000 people demonstrated in Lima, Peru, on Dec. 11 during the United Nations Climate Change Conference, called “COP 20.”…

December 21, 2014

CUBAN 5 FREED!

Dec. 17 – The Obama administration announced today that the remaining incarcerated Cuban Five – Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and…

December 17, 2014

Mass protests by Haiti’s people

Tens of thousands of Haitians have come out into the streets repeatedly in the last month. They demand that President…

December 12, 2014

Biggest protest to date in Haiti

Most of them live without electricity. Or phone service. Their community groups and popular parties don’t have much of either.…

December 4, 2014

Haitian cops kill protesters – U.S. Embassy remains silent

November 18 is the anniversary of the 1803 battle of Vertière, the decisive battle of the Haitian revolution in which…

November 29, 2014

Haiti: Cancelled elections spark big protests

If you don’t hold elections, you can’t lose them. This maxim, which the Duvalierist dictatorships upheld for decades in Haiti…

November 7, 2014

Haiti mourns loss of trial as ‘Baby Doc’ dies

Any Haitians with a progressive bone in their body regretted Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s Oct. 4 death. They would have preferred…

October 14, 2014