Latin America & the Caribbean

Puerto Rican evacuees face homelessness in PhiladelphiaPuerto Rican evacuees face homelessness in Philadelphia

Puerto Rican evacuees face homelessness in Philadelphia

Over 1,500 evacuees from Hurricane Maria that devastated Puerto Rico last September, most of them housed by relatives in the…

February 15, 2018
Close Guantanamo naval base– U.S. OUT!Close Guantanamo naval base– U.S. OUT!

Close Guantanamo naval base– U.S. OUT!

The U.S. has occupied part of Cuba for over 115 years. On Feb. 23, 1903, the U.S. coerced Cuba into…

February 11, 2018
Oscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican independence fighter and former U.S. political prisoner, kicks off southern California tourOscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican independence fighter and former U.S. political prisoner, kicks off southern California tour

Oscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican independence fighter and former U.S. political prisoner, kicks off southern California tour

Workers World Party and the International Action Center were guests at an invitation-only luncheon with Oscar Lopez Rivera, former political…

February 8, 2018
New York protest says ‘Puerto Rico is not for sale!’New York protest says ‘Puerto Rico is not for sale!’

New York protest says ‘Puerto Rico is not for sale!’

Puerto Ricans and supporters held an early-morning militant protest Feb. 1 at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in lower…

February 6, 2018
Honduras protests continue as U.S. puppet sworn inHonduras protests continue as U.S. puppet sworn in

Honduras protests continue as U.S. puppet sworn in

The rich supporters of the U.S.-backed president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, watched his Jan. 27 swearing-in ceremony at the…

January 30, 2018
Bus drivers’ leader on Trump’s attacks on HaitiansBus drivers’ leader on Trump’s attacks on Haitians

Bus drivers’ leader on Trump’s attacks on Haitians

WW correspondent Sam Ordóñez interviewed André François, president of the United Steelworkers, Local 8751, which represents the Boston and Randolph…

January 29, 2018
Cuban brigade anniversary celebratedCuban brigade anniversary celebrated

Cuban brigade anniversary celebrated

Havana — The 40th anniversary of the founding of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, which has worked tirelessly in Miami and…

January 26, 2018
How Haiti helped build PhiladelphiaHow Haiti helped build Philadelphia

How Haiti helped build Philadelphia

The wealth produced by enslaved Africans in Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique made French capitalists rich. Even before the 1789 bourgeois…

January 21, 2018
Haitians protest U.S. treatmentHaitians protest U.S. treatment

Haitians protest U.S. treatment

Throughout the world, Haitian communities on Jan. 12 commemorated with grief and anger the eighth anniversary of the catastrophic 2010…

January 15, 2018
Haitians to march on TrumpHaitians to march on Trump

Haitians to march on Trump

A number of Haitian groups and progressives came together here on Jan. 13 in the office of the newspaper Haïti-Liberté…

January 15, 2018