Latin America & the Caribbean

Mass protests in Haiti support Aristide

After granting notorious Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier a diplomatic passport, the Haitian government ironically called former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in…

January 20, 2013

Mass outpouring for Chávez’s gov’t in Venezuela

Jan. 10 — The people of Venezuela poured into the streets by the hundreds of thousands in the country’s four…

January 11, 2013

Haiti’s reconstruction barely begun

Three years after the earthquake that killed 300,000 people on Jan. 12, 2010, reconstruction has barely begun in Haiti. Debris…

January 11, 2013

Venezuela and the struggle for socialism: ‘The agenda is to deepen the revolution’

This is a talk by Berta Joubert-Ceci of the Philadelphia branch of Workers World Party to the November WWP National…

December 21, 2012

Haitians demand roads, schools, water

Mass protests, with barricades of burning tires, kept Construtora OAS, a Brazilian construction company, from moving its equipment out of…

December 16, 2012

Firme con Hugo Chávez y el pueblo de Venezuela ¡Chávez Sí! ¡Imperio No!

La extraordinaria carrera de Hugo Chávez como rebelde militar, héroe del pueblo y agente de profundo cambio social en Venezuela,…

December 14, 2012

Stand with Hugo Chávez & Venezuela

Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary career as military rebel, people’s hero and agent of deep social change in Venezuela, as well as…

December 13, 2012

The myth of Columbus

Based on a talk entitled “On the 520th anniversary of the landing of Columbus: What his legacy means for Indigenous…

November 21, 2012

Hurricane hits Haiti, Jamaica

Sandy began in the southern Caribbean near Nicaragua, and when it passed over Jamaica, its winds were barely hurricane force.…

November 5, 2012

Clintons preside over inauguration of misery in Haiti

In a ceremony reeking of historic colonialism, designed to firmly seal Haiti’s status as a U.S. neocolony, former President Bill…

November 4, 2012