By Roger D. Harris, Task Force Board member and Associate Editor at COHA An exclusive interview with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on May 24, 2020 As Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza spoke to the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) Friday night, five Iranian oil tankers headed to Venezuela … Read More

By Alice Loaiza, Task Force Board member It’s hard to describe a country that has so many levels of critical problems as does Colombia. Then you place the Covid-19 virus on top of it all and one wonders how people manage to survive…or maybe they don’t. One thing for sure is that most of the … Read More

By Roger Stoll, Task Force member COVID-19 has reached every country in the world, and we now know that whether or not the disease kills in great numbers does not depend on GDP. With some exceptions, poorer, socialist-oriented nations have protected their citizens, while rich capitalist nations have not. The starkest comparison is China, at … Read More

By Elizabeth Milos, Chilean activist living in the Bay Area who was in Chile in March Long before the worldwide pandemic arrived people in Chile had been living precariously in a relentless system of long work hours, mínimum wage, job insecurity, crippling debt and poor health outcomes due to privatized education and healthcare, and retirement … Read More

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on May 14, 2020 A few hours before the attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington, a woman wearing a red raincoat, dark glasses, mask and hood, was photographing the facade of the 16th Street mansion in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood. The security cameras recorded her in broad daylight and, despite her … Read More