End US and UN Support for the Criminal Regime of Jovenel Moise By Rob Roth, Haiti Action Committee The human rights crisis under the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise has continued to widen and deepen with the proliferation of “Tonton Macoutes” style death squad repression across the country. On October 2nd, 2020, university student leader, … Read More
U.S. Police Model and Colombia’s ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Disturbances Squadron) by Maya Hernández, National Coordinator for Alliance for Global Justice “A cop is a cop,” said James Baldwin in 1971. Undoubtedly, Baldwin was pointing to the way that U.S. law enforcement operates as a fraternized collective, wherein individual officers are not so much the problem as … Read More
TFA Board Member Roger Harris provides a wealth of research sources in this analysis….. 2020 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide May Rise Again By Roger D. Harris The balance between the US drive to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and … Read More
Open Letter to PBS Newshour The following email was sent by TFA Advisory Board member Allan Fisher. To: ViewerMail@newshour.org Tonight’s (12 – 29 – 20) PBS News Hour’s segment on Venezuela was extremely biased as it only presented one point of view – that of the opponents of the embattled regime. During the lengthy segment, … Read More
Task Force on the Americas Statement: Misinformation about Nicaragua and TFA on KPFA Radio For 35 years, we at the Task Force on the Americas (TFA) have been supporting popular movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. Also known as the Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas (MITF), we are a small grassroots human … Read More