Latin America & the Caribbean

Ecuador elections – The calm before the storm

Ibarra, Ecuador   Feb. 19 — Almost 10 million voters, a record 81% of those eligible, went to the polls Feb.…

February 23, 2021

Haiti: The masses are still in the streets

A twitter post showed hundreds of students taking to the streets of Delmas, near Port-au-Prince, on the morning of Feb.…

February 15, 2021

Capitalists consolidate control over U.S. farmland

The amount of farmland in the United States has been in steady decline for most of the 21st century. While…

February 12, 2021

Anti-regime protests intensify in Haiti

Tens of thousands of Haitians took to the streets of Port-au-Prince on Feb. 7 in numerous small, very militant and…

February 9, 2021

Elliott Abrams, fire your own president; you couldn’t fire mine in Venezuela.

The writer was the director of international relations in Venezuela’s presidential office and the country’s ambassador to Nicaragua. Currently, he…

January 25, 2021

 ‘We neutralized the fascists,’ says veteran union organizer

Excerpts taken from the Jan. 14 webinar,“Workers Can Defeat Fascism and Racism,” sponsored by Workers World Party, moderated by Ted…

January 22, 2021

Protests erupt over Haitian president’s plans to stay in power

From Brooklyn and Miami to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as well as Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitien, Jacmel, Saint-Marc and Gonaïves in Haiti, hundreds…

January 19, 2021

Imperialist manipulation meets popular resistance in Haiti

Haiti is by far the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Yet it has a glorious history as the first…

January 15, 2021

EDITORIAL ¿Por qué el país más rico del mundo no está tan preparado?

La gran pregunta que uno debe hacerse sobre la epidemia de COVID-19, --que hasta el 2 de enero ha matado…

January 15, 2021

Huelgas de hambre en tres cárceles de Nueva Jersey

Las sucias condiciones, el encarcelamiento indefinido y la escalada de infecciones por COVID han desencadenado huelgas de hambre desesperadas en…

January 15, 2021