By Chuck Kaufman, co-coordinator of Alliance for Global Justice  The latest poll by independent M&R Consultants covering the last quarter of 2019 shows that less than two years after the failed coup attempt of April-July, 2018, the Sandinista government, led by President Daniel Ortega is more popular than ever and all but a tiny minority … Read More

Haiti Action Committee Statement     January 12 marked ten years since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 300,000 people, and left an estimated 1.3 million more homeless. Much of the greater Port-au-Prince region lay in ruins, including the presidential palace, 17 of 19 ministries, and many schools and hospitals. Entire neighborhoods were leveled, … Read More

By Angel Guerra Cabrera, journalist and member of the Secretariat of In Defense of Humanity   The United States imperialist offensive against the people in Latin America and the Caribbean is beginning a new phase, showing clear fascist tendencies in some countries. Though this is not the only symptom, a clear example of it is … Read More

For nearly two months, the environmental movement, the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and El Salvador’s leading public water utility workers’ union have been criticizing President Nayib Bukele’s administration for its seeming indifference to the foul-tasting, fetid brown water that began spurting from faucets throughout the capital city of San Salvador in early … Read More

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde, Journalist and Vice President of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) Think tanks in the United States and Cuban researchers agree on one thing: the policy of more sanctions and the extension of the US blockade will not change the socialist course of Cuba. In the case of the island, punishment … Read More