Latin America & the Caribbean

Cuban union leader gets ‘attentive and exciting reception’

Victor Manuel Lemagne Sánchez, a high-ranking union leader representing workers in Cuba’s hotel and tourism industry and also an elected…

July 18, 2017

Haití y Día de la Bastilla

El 14 de julio es el Día de la Bastilla. Ese día en 1789, decenas de miles de pobres de…

July 18, 2017

Travel challenge to Cuba

The first time I heard about Cuba was from my Dad, when I asked him why his cigar was more…

July 17, 2017

Striking workers in Haiti win solidarity in U.S.

Confronting brutal heat, nasty cops and stubborn resistance from their bosses, workers in the Haitian textile trades came out by…

July 15, 2017

Haiti & Bastille Day

July 14 is Bastille Day. On that date in 1789 tens of thousands of poor people in Paris attacked a…

July 13, 2017

Venezuelan independence celebrated

The Consulate General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Boston, led by acting Consul General Omar Sierra, hosted a…

July 13, 2017

What Marxism teaches us about protests in Venezuela

Excerpted from TeleSur English, this article opens a compelling analysis of how Marxism can be used to take apart the…

July 6, 2017

Haitian workers strike for $12.50 a day

For the past few years, workers in Haiti’s textile sector have been struggling to raise their minimum wage from 350…

July 2, 2017

Bolivarian Venezuela resists USA and OAS plots

In Mexico, the government of Enrique Peña Nieto ignores the just demands of the mothers and fathers of the 43…

June 28, 2017

Venezuela resiste ataques OEA/EUA

Mientras en México el gobierno de Enrique Peña Nieto ignora las justas exigencias de las madres y padres de los…

June 27, 2017