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

By Roger Harris, Task Force Board member on February 29, 20209 Judicial proceedings are taking place in DC federal court where the judge has ruled inadmissible the question whether the democratically elected Nicolás Maduro or the Trump-chosen Juan Guaidó is the legitimate president of Venezuela. Like an emperor of yore appointing regents of vassal states, … Read More

By Carlos Aznárez , on February 20, 2020 The government has not been able to cope with the movement of these stubborn and brave people who for four months have not only gone out into the squares by the thousands, but have also changed their names to beautiful words like “Dignity” and “Revolution.” They have … Read More

By Rick Sterling, President, Task Force on the Americas, on February 26, 2020 In mid-January I went to London, England to research what is happening with Julian Assange. We could not visit him. He is in Belmarsh Maximum Security prison and even his lawyers could only see him for two hours over the entire previous … Read More