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.
New York Times Buries CIA Facts on Latin American Deaths By David Lindorff, October 24, 2013
Haiti: World Vision’s Targeted Food Program Questioned – Food Aid is “More Negative than Positive” By Haiti Grassroots Watch, October 24, 2013
Remember the Grenada Invasion: “Grenada’s Real Threat Was Ideological.” By Glen Ford, October 24, 2013
Haiti’s Apparel Factories: Wage Theft, Sexual Harassment, and Poor Safety and Sanitation Standards By Center for Economic and Policy Research, October 23, 2013
Spain Blocks Argentinian Attempts to Prosecute Franco-Era Fascists By Alejandro López, October 23, 2013
Prism “Voice Collection”, SMS Messages, E-mail: New Evidence of Widespread NSA Spying on France, Mexico By Thomas Gaist, October 22, 2013
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Its Critics By Global Research News, October 22, 2013
The End of Impunity? Indigenous Guatemalans bring Canadian Mining Company to Court By Global Research News, October 21, 2013
America Spies on its Closest Allies: NSA Accessed Mexican President’s Email By Der Spiegel, October 21, 2013
US- Venezuela Relations: A Case Study of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism By Prof. James Petras, October 20, 2013
Money Laundering and The Drug Trade: The Role of the Banks By Dylan Murphy, October 20, 2013
Attending Need, Not Profit: Venezuela’s Experiment with Community Medicine By Ewan Robertson, October 20, 2013
The Establishment of “Social Enterprises” in Bolivia By Richard Fidler, October 18, 2013
History Will Absolve Me: Fidel Castro, Sixty Years Later By Maximilian Forte, October 16, 2013
HAITI: USAID Funded Food Voucher Program Hurt Farmers, Favored U.S. Exports By Haiti Grassroots Watch, October 11, 2013
Industrial Espionage in Brazil: Exposing the Underbelly of Canadian Support for Mining Companies By MiningWatch Canada, October 10, 2013
Canada Spied on Brazil’s Government as Part of Global Commercial Espionage Campaign By Keith Jones, October 09, 2013
Canadian Spy Agency ‘Dissected’ Brazilian Energy Ministry By RT, October 07, 2013
Mass Protests in Haiti: “Time for Haitians to Stop Taking Orders From Colonists” By Kim Ives, October 04, 2013
Venezuelan President Expels US Officials for Instigating and Financing Economic “Sabotage” By Bill Van Auken, October 02, 2013
Forcing Farmers to Plant Genetically Modified Seeds: Colombians Revolt Against Seed Control and Agricultural Tyranny By Dylan Charles, October 02, 2013
The Snowden Affair: Denying President Morales’ Plane Fuel Seen As Attempted Assassination By Asad Ismi, September 29, 2013
From Syria to Iran: The Dynamics of Global Power By Miguel Villagra, September 27, 2013
Cutting the Cord: Brazil’s Bold Plan to Combat the NSA By Amar Toor, September 27, 2013
Venezuelan President Maduro’s Life Threatened? By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim, September 27, 2013
Puerto Rico and the Puerto Ricans Versus 115 Years of Yankee Imperialism and Colonialism By Global Research News, September 22, 2013
NSA Snooping on Brazil’s President’s Emails. Unfolding Diplomatic Fall Out between Washington and Brasilia By Michael Werbowski, September 20, 2013
Privatization Profiteers from Pinochet’s Chile May Yet Face Prison By Pratap Chatterjee, September 20, 2013
Venezuelan President denied Travel through US Airspace By RT, September 20, 2013
In an Age of ‘Realists’ and Vigilantes, There is Cause for Optimism By John Pilger, September 19, 2013
Kissinger and Chile: The Declassified Record on Regime Change By Peter Kornbluh, September 12, 2013
Commemorating Chile’s Military Coup, September 11, 1973: Chile and Latin America Forty Years Later By Socialist Project, September 11, 2013
Mexico’s Unfolding Political Crisis: Denationalization and the Privatisation of Oil and Electricity By Prof. James Petras, September 10, 2013
Coffee Crisis in Central America: Support “Fair Trade” By Prof. Gavin Fridell, September 08, 2013
Militarization and Political Crisis in Mexico By Robert Sandels, September 04, 2013
Brazil’s Unspoken Humanitarian Crisis: “Refugee” Camp Holding Over 800 Haitians in Inhuman Conditions By Conectas Human Rights, August 27, 2013
The South American Defence Council and the Subversive Activities of the Pentagon By Nil Nikandrov, August 27, 2013
Brazil’s Vinegar Revolution: Neoliberalism and the Economic Elites By Gearóid Ó Colmáin, August 26, 2013
Latin America: Class Struggle and Resistance in the Age of Extractive Capitalism By Prof. James Petras, August 26, 2013
Brazil’s Vinegar Revolution: Left in Form, Right in Content By Gearóid Ó Colmáin, August 20, 2013
Samsung Sued for $109 Million For Labor Violations in Amazon By Richard Smallteacher, August 19, 2013
Israel Deserves to Be Expelled from UN, Miguel D’Escoto Says By Global Research News, August 16, 2013
Haiti: Grassroots Groups Afraid “Attractive” Mining Law Could Open Country Up to Systematic Pillage By Haiti Grassroots Watch, August 06, 2013
The Protest Movement in Brazil. Towards a New Political Scenario? By Socialist Project, August 06, 2013
Regime Change: U.S. Seeks to Get Rid of Left Governments in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot, August 05, 2013
This American Life on Guatemalan Genocide By FAIR, August 01, 2013
“Overwhelming” Evidence of Plot to Assassinate Venezuela’s Maduro By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim, July 26, 2013
Do “Peace Accords” Lead to Peace, Justice and Security for the People? By Prof. James Petras, July 25, 2013
Canadian Mining Company HudBay Minerals Sued for Shootings, Murder and Gang-Rape in Guatemala By Global Research News, July 24, 2013
Brazil: Extractive Capitalism and the Great Leap Backward By Prof. James Petras, July 23, 2013
The Militarization of the US-Mexican Border: Counterinsurgency or Immigration Reform? By Tom Hayden, July 20, 2013
Haiti: Political Assassination? Suspicious Death of Judge Who Called for Prosecution of Presidential Family By Francklyn B. Geffrard, July 19, 2013
The Meaning of the Brazilian Protest Movement By James Corbett, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, and Pepe Escobar, July 16, 2013
A Haitian Sweatshop Worker Speaks: “Mrs. Clinton Can Have Her Factories” By Beverly Bell, July 15, 2013
Venezuela: U.S. and Opposition’s Private Sector Waging Economic War, Attacking Food Sovereignty By Correo del Orinoco, July 11, 2013
Made in Haiti, Dumped in Haiti: Slave Labor and the Garment Industry By Isabeau Doucet, July 11, 2013
Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Zones By Jonathan Cook, July 10, 2013
Haiti: US to Re-Write Haiti Constitution to Better Service the One Percent By Ezili Dantò, July 10, 2013
Brazil Target of Massive NSA Spying Operation By Bill Van Auken, July 10, 2013
NSA Spying on Venezuela: Post-Chavez Elections and Petroleum Industry Were Priorities By Global Research News, July 10, 2013
Latin American Governments blast Hijacking in Snowden Manhunt By Bill Van Auken, July 06, 2013
Forcing Down the Bolivian President’s Plane was an Act of Piracy By John Pilger, July 04, 2013
Report Critical of USAID in Haiti: No “Detailed Information on Funding and Sector Activities” By Center for Economic and Policy Research, July 02, 2013
Mass Protest Movement in Chile By Global Research News, June 28, 2013
Cuban Democracy and the Twenty-First Century Latin American Left By Arnold August, June 28, 2013
Labour Union in Colombia Battles Canadian Oil Company: Pacific Rubiales is Linked to Attacks on Union Activists By Asad Ismi, June 28, 2013
CIA Covert Ops in Central America: Nicaragua and the Road to Contra-Gate By Greg Guma, June 27, 2013
Colombia Signs Cooperation Memorandum with NATO By Global Research News, June 27, 2013
The Mass Protests in Brazil and the Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership By Bill Van Auken, June 23, 2013
Haiti “Pain Rush”: The Myth of White Superiority, Poverty Pimping NGOs and US Humanitarian Occupation By Ezili Dantò, June 13, 2013
Haiti: Dissatisfaction Growing with the Martelly-Lamothe Government By Thomas Péralte, June 12, 2013
Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in the Americas after Chavez – Book Launch & Discussion, June 12, Ottawa By Arnold August, June 10, 2013
Washington’s “Dual Imperial Strategy” in Latin America: Breakdown of the Colombia-Venezuela -FARC Peace Process By Prof. James Petras, June 07, 2013
Chile Launches Search for U.S. Suspect in Alleged Neruda Poisoning By Joseph Fitsanakis, June 06, 2013
International Gathering Calls for UN Troops to Leave Haiti By Haïti Liberté, June 06, 2013
The Disastrous State of Haiti’s Finances: Senate Reports Reveal Widespread Corruption By Yves Pierre-Louis, June 04, 2013
Deadly Honduras Counterdrugs Operation Raises New Questions Regarding U.S. Role By Center for Economic and Policy Research, May 31, 2013
Guatemalan High Court upholds overturning of Rios Montt Conviction By Bill Van Auken, May 30, 2013
Canada and Gunboat Diplomacy By Yves Engler, May 30, 2013
Government Impunity in Forced Disappearance of Dominican Journalist and Professor Narciso González By The National Security Archive, May 29, 2013