Latin America & the Caribbean

U.S. hands off Haiti! Reparations now!

By any account the situation in Haiti is desperate. What the U.S. has done to Haiti in the past, as…

May 9, 2023

Georgia protesters decry death of Salvador Vargas, immigrant detainee

More than 50 people, including family members and former detainees, rallied outside the gates of the Stewart Detention Center in…

May 8, 2023

The U.S role in fomenting violence in Haiti

María Isabel Salvador, the author of the April 25 report from the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) to the…

May 5, 2023

Ben Dupuy: Rest in power!

Benjamin Dupuy, a longtime important voice for Haitian independence, died April 23 in Miami, Florida, at the age of 91.…

May 5, 2023

Harry Belafonte was more than a Civil Rights activist but a genuine internationalist

The great Jamaican-identified artist, Civil Rights activist and internationalist, Harry Belafonte, died from congestive heart failure at age 96 on…

May 1, 2023

Progressive Africa in solidarity with Cuba

This article was published in Avante, the weekly newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, on April 13. Translation: John Catalinotto.…

April 24, 2023

Puerto Rican community protests the Hispanic Federation’s annual gala

The following is a slightly edited version of a press release issued April 18 by The Puerto Rico Is Not…

April 24, 2023

Brazil and China agree on dollar-free trade

Interview by Lorena Guillén, from ABYA YALA TV, Bolivia, with Julio Gambina, president of the Foundation for Social and Political…

April 21, 2023

A comparison of mental health care: the United States and Cuba

The writer is co-author of “Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Theory for the 21st Century: Evolving Self,” published by Lexington Books. She has…

April 20, 2023