Latin America & the Caribbean

Washington embraces Bolivia’s rightists

The Jan. 23 announcement that the U.S. would resume diplomatic relations with Bolivia’s government -- after breaking them with Evo…

January 28, 2020

Embassy Protectors face court: A trial of our times

By Lauren Smith Smith is an independent journalist. On Feb. 11, four American peace activists, known as the Embassy Protectors…

January 27, 2020

Embassy Protectors speak in New York City

The four American peace activists who protected the Venezuela Embassy in Washington, D.C., for 37 days during the attempted coup,…

January 27, 2020

Challenges to people’s movements in the Americas

By Juan Diego Garcia Garcia is Colombian, residing in Spain. Published in lapluma.net on Jan. 1. Translation by John Catalinotto…

January 23, 2020

Philadelphia: Stop denying disaster relief to Puerto Rico!

Demonstrators gathered in Philadelphia on Jan. 15 in front of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mid-Atlantic Region,…

January 22, 2020

In Venezuela, reactionary Guaidó humiliated by assembly defeat

The self-appointed “interim president” of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, received a humiliating setback in that country’s National Assembly vote on Jan.…

January 17, 2020

San Francisco Labor Council opposes the coup in Bolivia

The following resolution was passed by unanimous vote of the San Francisco Labor Council on Jan. 13. Whereas Evo Morales,…

January 16, 2020

As earthquakes hit Puerto Rico, the people organize against “natural” and capitalist-made disaster

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit the Caribbean on Jan. 7, with the southern coast of Puerto Rico its epicenter. Then…

January 12, 2020

Argentina and the longed-for turnaround that ended four years of savage capitalism

Published by tlaxcala-int.org and lapluma.net on Jan. 1. Aznárez is an Argentine Marxist journalist and the director of the e-magazine…

January 6, 2020

Argentina y el anhelado viraje que terminó con cuatro años de capitalismo salvaje

Aznárez es periodista argentino, trabaja en medios de prensa, radio y TV. Director del periódico Resumen Latinoamericano y del Tercer…

January 4, 2020