Latin America & the Caribbean

Haiti: Guerrilla warfare and COVID-19 break out in Port-au-Prince

Starting in early June, firefights broke out among the armed neighborhood militias in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, with the cops sometimes…

June 25, 2021

Massive Brazil protests demand ‘Vaccine in arm, food on plate, Bolsonaro out!’

Organizers say some three-quarters of a million people demonstrated in over 400 cities in Brazil and around the world on…

June 24, 2021

Peru: Fujimori threatens pre-emptive coup

Thousands of poor Peruvians from the countryside and mountains have gone to Lima to demonstrate support for Pedro Castillo, the…

June 22, 2021

Kamala Harris goes to Central America − and so does Wall St.

In 1973, Eduardo Galeano wrote what was then a groundbreaking book, “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the…

June 16, 2021

Protesters demand: ‘Cancel LUMA Energy contract in Puerto Rico!’

Puerto Ricans in the diaspora protested June 11 against the private LUMA Energy company’s June 1 takeover of the operations…

June 16, 2021

The case of Alex Saab

By Sara Flounders and Roger D. Harris    Facing the possible extradition to the U.S. of a Venezuelan diplomat on…

June 15, 2021

Author of Berta Cáceres’ assassination on trial in Honduras

Berta Cáceres, beloved leader of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), was assassinated March 3, 2016.…

June 15, 2021

Castillo’s victory unleashes political earthquake

By Jorge Martín Published in rebelion.org, June 10. Translation by Michael Otto The victory of Pedro Castillo in the Peruvian…

June 14, 2021

Proyecto 1619: Educadores progresistas opuestos a legislación reaccionaria

Por Andy Terhune  Los legisladores de derecha de 15 estados están aprobando una legislación que obligará a los profesores de…

June 8, 2021

Puerto Rican workers: No peace if energy is privatized

On June 1, the Financial Oversight and Management Board overseeing Puerto Rico’s economy privatized the island’s public power utilities by…

June 7, 2021