Latin America & the Caribbean

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. 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 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

Venezuela socialists win local election landslide

In a stunning victory for Bolivarian Venezuela, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won municipal elections in 23 of…

January 5, 2018

Protesters say, ‘No pardon for Fujimori’s crimes’

January 3 — Braving frigid temperatures, members of New York City’s Peruvian community and supporters held a lunchtime picket outside…

January 5, 2018

Honduras: The people’s movement fights electoral fraud

Jan. 1 — Hondurans have been in the streets risking their lives to protest fraud in the recent presidential election…

January 2, 2018

Free Honduras!

As of the morning of Dec. 19, the recent election in Honduras is being decided in the streets and workplaces…

December 21, 2017

Trump lied: U.S. to end legal protection of Haitian migrants

Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Elaine Duke announced on Nov. 20 that 59,000 Haitians would lose their…

November 27, 2017

Viva Fidel! Socialist revolution!

Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, ¡presente! We mourn his loss. We remember, we celebrate and we seek to emulate his revolutionary…

November 23, 2017

Lesson from Cuba: Disaster capitalism and socialist planning

The following was adapted from a Workers World Party talk given Nov. 11 after the “In the Footsteps of Che…

November 19, 2017