Latin America & Caribbean

The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism. In all major regions of the World, the Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration and struggle...
In 2003, "Leftists" applauded the inauguration of Luis Ignacio da Silva as a victory against neoliberalism, without acknowledging that Lula's PT had embraced the demands of Wall Street and the IMF. In the words of IMF Managing Director (2003) "the IMF listens to President Lula and the economic team".
Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution has passed. The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism.
The Junta ordered a hike in the price of bread from 11 to 40 escudos. While food prices had skyrocketed, wages had been frozen. From one day to the next, an entire country had been precipitated into abysmal poverty; in less than a year the price of bread in Chile increased thirty-six fold.
Video: Closing Panama Tax Haven Will Require Fighting the Most Powerful Lobby In the World By Prof Michael Hudson and Sharmini Peries, April 20, 2016
Venezuela’s Opposition: Attacking Its Own People By Eric Draitser, April 19, 2016
“Neoliberal Restoration”: Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart By Pepe Escobar, April 19, 2016
BRICS Under Attack: The Empire Strikes Back In Brazil By Eric Draitser, April 18, 2016
How Hillary Helped Ruin Haiti By Theodore Hamm, April 13, 2016
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Venezuela: Records Low Unemployment Rate during Chavez Presidency By Edu Montesanti, April 11, 2016
Peru Elections 2016: The Story of a Coup d’État Foretold? By Peter Koenig, April 10, 2016
Deep History and the Global Drug Connection: Chile’s 1973 Military Coup and the Murder of Orlando Letelier By Prof Peter Dale Scott and Russ Baker, April 08, 2016
Oil Pipeline and Environmental Disasters in the US, Canada and Brazil. Triggered by Oil and Mining Conglomerates By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, April 06, 2016
Mexican Government Employing Torture in US-Backed Anti-Immigrant Drive By Neil Hardt, April 06, 2016
Mexican Government Obstructs Investigation into Disappearance of the Ayotzinapa 43 By Don Knowland, April 04, 2016
Financial Oversight and Colonialism in Puerto Rico By Matt Peppe, April 04, 2016
Socialism in Venezuela Cannot Be Implemented by Decree – A Speech By Hugo Chavez By President Hugo Chavez, April 03, 2016
Fidel and Obama in Cuba: Now THAT Is Historic! By Arnold August, April 02, 2016
Cuba’s Support For Revolutions, Self-Defense Remains Largely Intact Despite Western Propaganda By Caleb T. Maupin, April 02, 2016
Brazil Forces Israel to Withdraw Settler Extremist Ambassador By Telesur, March 30, 2016
Cuba: Détente or Monroe Doctrine Imperial Plot? Washington’s Intent: “Bay of Pigs Invasion with a Smile” By Dady Chery, March 30, 2016
What the Western Left Misses About Cuba By Carlos Martinez and Prof. Tim Anderson, March 30, 2016
“Sugar Wars”: The Predatory Sugar and Drink Companies, Health Impacts, Food Choices. By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 30, 2016
Suppression of Freedom of the Press and Expression in Argentina By Telesur, March 30, 2016
Obama in Cuba: How “Political Prisoners” Made the Media Headlines By Arnold August, March 30, 2016
United Nations Declares Falkland Islands Argentinian Territory. By Felicity Arbuthnot, March 29, 2016
The War on Democracy in Latin America By John Pilger and Edu Montesanti, March 29, 2016
Global Agribusiness and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficient Organic Farming and Agroecology By Colin Todhunter, March 28, 2016
Brother Obama Fidel Castro's Response to Obama's Statements during His visit to Cuba By Fidel Castro Ruz, March 28, 2016
Gustavo Castro Soto and the Rigged Investigation into Berta Cáceres’s Assassination By Beverly Bell, March 27, 2016
UN Group Rejects US Sanctions Against Venezuela By Telesur, March 25, 2016
Operation Condor Never Ended: Assassinations and Coup Plots Continue Across Latin America By Hugo Turner, March 25, 2016
Overthrowing Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff: It’s Class War, and Their Class is Winning By Alfredo Saad-Filho, March 23, 2016
With Obama in Cuba, Pro-Torture Pundits Suddenly Concerned With Human Rights By Adam Johnson, March 23, 2016
Cuba: Operation Northwoods, the Forgotten Insanity By Prof Peter Dale Scott and Russ Baker, March 22, 2016
Che Guevara’s Son on Obama’s Historic Cuba Visit: “Let’s See” By Andrea Germanos, March 21, 2016
Obama’s Historic Trip to Cuba and U.S Double Standards on Human Rights By Dr. Birsen Filip, March 21, 2016
Brazil: Impeachment Drive Accelerates amid Expanding Political Crisis By Bill Van Auken, March 19, 2016
Berta Caceres Colleague Murdered in Honduras By Oliver Tickell, March 19, 2016
Human Rights Hypocrisy: US Criticizes Cuba By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, March 18, 2016
‘Prime Minister’ Lula: The Brazilian Game-Changer By Pepe Escobar, March 17, 2016
Do the Cuban People Have the Right to Choose Their Leaders? By Arnold August, March 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Link to a Nasty Piece of Work in Honduras By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, March 16, 2016
Millions Join Protests in Brazil Demanding Ouster of Workers Party Government By Bill Van Auken, March 15, 2016
Berta Cáceres: Murder of Mother Linked to ‘Green’ Bank, Mining Companies and Hillary Clinton By Marianne Edwards, March 15, 2016
Latin America’s “Dirty War”: How Much Did the US Know About the Kidnapping, Torture, and Murder of Over 20,000 People in Argentina? By Martin Edwin Andersen, March 14, 2016
Media Manufacture Narrative of U.S. Benevolence Towards Cuba By Matt Peppe, March 14, 2016
Drugs, Dams, and Power: the Murder of Honduras Activist Berta Cáceres By Danielle Marie Mackey, March 13, 2016
Obama in Cuba: Will the Visit Advance the US Cultural War Against Cubans? By Arnold August, March 13, 2016
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders: Hugo Chávez is Just a Dead Communist Dictator By Venezuela Today, March 07, 2016
US Role in the Assassination of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres Goes Unmentioned in US Media By Adam Johnson, March 05, 2016
Obama’s Visit to Cuba and Human Rights By Arnold August, March 05, 2016
Twilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left. Neo-Liberal Restoration in Latin-America By Prof. James Petras, March 05, 2016
Human Rights, Corruption and the Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement: The Assassination of Activist Berta Caceres By Mark Taliano, March 04, 2016
Victory of Neoliberalism? Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At an End? By Claudio Katz, March 04, 2016
Another Earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti? By Dady Chery, March 04, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Fraudulent Actions in Haiti By Other Worlds, March 02, 2016
Haitian People: Let Us Recover Our Dignity By Michel-Ange Cadet, March 02, 2016
ELN Spotted in FARC Territory as Both Continue Peace Process with Colombian Government By nsnbc international, March 01, 2016
Brazil Officials Focus on Sumitomo-Monsanto Pesticide Used to Fight Zika After It Was Exposed as a Possible Cause of Birth Defects By Matt Agorist, February 29, 2016
Setbacks in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. The Future of the Left in South America Global Research News Hour Episode 132 By Michael Welch, John Schertow, and Prof. James Petras, February 28, 2016
Coping with Oppression in Canada, Guatemala, Ethiopia, By J. B. Gerald, February 27, 2016
The “Closure” of Guantánamo Bay. Torture, Incarceration and the “War on Terror” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 25, 2016
Why Doesn’t Obama Use His Executive Power to Close Guantánamo? By Arnold August, February 25, 2016
Haiti to Sell Offshore Island La Gonâve to Foreign Capital, Transformed into a Tax Haven… By Prof. Beguens Theus and Dady Chery, February 24, 2016
Will The Thaw In US-Cuban Relations Chill Cuba’s Revolutionary Zeal? By Ramona Wadi, February 23, 2016
The 1980 Assassination of Historian Walter Rodney Was Carried Out by Guyana Government By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 23, 2016
The White House National Security Agenda for Obama’s Visit to Cuba By Arnold August, February 23, 2016
Argentina: The End of Post Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Hard Right By Prof. James Petras, February 21, 2016
Chemical Larvicide Not Zika Virus, True Cause Of Brazil’s Microcephaly Outbreak: Doctors By Alyssa Navarro, February 18, 2016
Propaganda as “News”: Ecuador Allegedly Sells its Amazon Rainforest to China By Stansfield Smith, February 18, 2016
“Regime Rotation”: Haiti’s Parliament of Owls Hatches Jocelerme Privert as Interim President By Dady Chery, February 18, 2016
Puerto Ricans Suffer as Creditors Feast on Debt Colony By Matt Peppe, February 17, 2016
Coup Threatened in Venezuela amidst Deepening Economic Crisis By Eric London, February 15, 2016
More on the Zika Virus-Microcephaly Freak-out By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, February 10, 2016
Microcephaly in Brazil. What are the Causes? “The Focus is on the Mosquito as the Vector”? By Dr. David Halpin, February 10, 2016
The Zika Virus, the Brazilian Microcephaly Outbreak. Covering-up Another Iatrogenic Disorder By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, February 07, 2016
The Malvinas: An Unresolved Dispute between Argentina and Britain By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, February 07, 2016
US Sponsored “Democracy” in Haiti By Ezili Dantò, February 06, 2016
Genetically Modified Mosquitos and the Zika Virus. The Pentagon’s Synthetic Biology By John Stanton, February 06, 2016
Haiti’s Rigged Elections. Disinformation and Propaganda 101 By Dady Chery, February 05, 2016
Canada Urged to Have Normal Relations with Haiti: Because it’s 2016! By Jean Saint-Vil, February 03, 2016
Concerning Correlation: GMO Mosquitoes Caused Zika Virus Outbreak? By 21st Century Wire, February 02, 2016
Aid-Money Laundering as an NGO Racket. Haiti By Dady Chery, February 01, 2016