By Jemima Pierre on May 22, 2024 Sec. of State Antony Blinken meets with Kenya’s President William Ruto on Sept. 21, 2023, in New York. photo: Jason DeCrow, AP The US is behind the multinational military invasion and occupation of Haiti. How did we get here? As all eyes are on the genocide in Gaza, … Read More
By Jill Clark-Gollub (Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Americas Without Sanctions Lobbying Committee) AFGJ is a founding organization of the Americas Without Sanctions campaign, which since last July has been organizing tirelessly against the most recent round of sanctions legislation proposed for Nicaragua. Read the report-back from one of our campaign volunteers and lobbying coordinators below. On Thursday, May 16, … Read More
By Omar Rafael García Lazo on May 20, 2024 US embassy in Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell The author unravels the true meaning of the recent U.S. announcement on the exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries “that do not collaborate” with its government in the “fight against terrorism”, while keeping it on another … Read More
Misinformation on Cuba, Again By John Kirk and Stephen Kimber on May 15, 2024 Margaret Trudeau smiles as Cuban leader Fidel Castro holds her youngest son Michel after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana on January 26, 1976. Photo by Fred Chartrand/CP. Havana syndrome’ and Trudeau-as-the-son-of-Fidel non-stories are only the latest erroneous claims promoted to discredit … Read More
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (C) attends the Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 17, 2024. (Michele Spatari / AFP via Getty Images) BY SERAJ ASSI Brazilian president Lula forcefully condemned Israel’s brutal war on Gaza on Sunday before … Read More