BY ROGER HARRIS US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs Roger Carstens is on a case which could lead to freeing Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. Pressure is building on the Biden administration to swap Saab for some American citizens currently incarcerated in Venezuela. Alex Saab targeted in the US economic war against Venezuela Alex Saab, who … Read More
This article comes from the excellent Nica Notes. September 1, 2022 By Becca Renk (Becca Renk has lived and worked in sustainable community development in Nicaragua since 2001 with the Jubilee House Community and its project, the Center for Development in Central America. The JHC-CDCA also works to educate visitors to Nicaragua, including through their … Read More
The people of El Salvador are facing a human rights emergency after President Bukele imposed a nationwide State of Exception at the end of March. Now entering its sixth month, the State of Exception suspends fundamental constitutional rights, such as the right to assembly and the right to an attorney. Over 50,000 people have been … Read More
TFA Statement on the imprisonment of journalist Jose Ruben Zamora TASK FORCE ON THE AMERICAS condemns the Guatemalan government’s arrest of anti-corruption journalist Jose Ruben Zamora. As the publisher of the newspaper el Periodoco, Zamora’s arrest has alarmed people around the world about the deteriorating human rights situation and increased repression and censorship in Guatemala. Rights Action reports … Read More
By Roger D. Harris, Board Member TFA The Workers’ Summit of the Americas in Tijuana was organized as an alternative to Biden’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles as a place where countries besieged by and barred from the US could participate. This Encuentro was held in cooperation with the Peoples Summit in Los … Read More