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
US Intervenes as Venezuela Prepares for High Stakes Election By TFA board member Roger D. Harris The US finally appointed an ambassador to Venezuela after a decade hiatus and in the runup to the Venezuelan National Assembly elections. The new ambassador, James Story, was confirmed by US Senate voice vote on November 18 with Democrats … Read More
Open Letter to the Producer of KPFA’s program “A Rude Awakening” Dear Sabrina, We were glad to have your presence and support when Task Force on the Americas protested U.S. interference and aggression against Venezuela about two years ago. We are thus surprised and disappointed with your 6 November interview with the director of Oakland … Read More
By Nan McCurdy In 36 years of living in Latin America I have learned that any time a country changes its conditions so that poverty decreases and the standard of living improves, the United States wages some kind of war on that country. It has waged unconventional warfare on Nicaragua since the Sandinistas returned to … Read More