By Gary Wilson on April 13, 2025
Demonstrators hold banner reading “Southern Command out of Panama.” Panama City, April 8.
Panama’s opposition parties accused the U.S. of launching a “camouflaged invasion” amid escalating tensions over the U.S. military presence in the country. Following U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent visit, President Donald Trump confirmed troop deployments, stating, “We’ve moved a lot of troops to Panama.” (more…)
April 10, 2025 from Havana
May 1, 2007, Plaza of the Revolution, Photo: Bill Hackwell
The general secretary of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, has called for a national, popular and massive mobilization to celebrate International Workers Day and to reclaim the space of the Plaza of the Revolution for the occasion. Due to the blockade induced shortages these massive demonstrations of popular expression have not taken place in this historic location since 2022. (more…)
By Mildred Trouilot Aristide on April 8, 2025
Mildred Aristide
Haiti Action Committee is honored to share the keynote address given by Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide at the April 8th, 2025 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: Truth, Solidarity and Repair. The conference was co-sponsored by the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. The focus of this year’s conference was “Haiti and the Global Movement for Reparations.” We urge you to share this presentation widely. Watch the video recording of the presentation at https://youtu.be/qM1b-hr2TSo (more…)
April 9, 2025
Cuban doctors and educators working in Honduras
This is a “meeting of solidarity, love, friendship and emancipation,” said President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez to a group of Cuban health and education workers along with Hondurans from the solidarity movement with Cuba, with whom he met shortly after arriving in Honduras. (more…)
April 10, 2025
The Chaski Audiovisual Laboratory (L.A.Chaski), in collaboration with Resumen Latinoamericano and the Third World and with the support of the Al-Mayadeen Pan-Arab News Network in Spanish, is making the documentary “La Raíz del Olivo” (2024) by director Sergio Eguino Viera available for information, education and solidarity work with Palestine at an international level. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on April 10, 2025
Honduran President Xiomara Castro opens the 9th Celac Summit
In a historic day, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met for the 9th occasion in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to address crucial issues impacting the region. Among the global challenges discussed, the leaders highlighted the tariff war driven by U.S. President Donald Trump, which has put world economies at risk, threatening with a potential recession that will be most severely felt by the poorer countries of the world. (more…)
Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 10, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
An African country with coastlines on the eastern Atlantic decided to donate 3,000 tons of horse mackerel to Cuba, the delicious oily fish that swims in shoals from the Canary Islands and Senegal to the Gulf of Guinea and Baía dos Tigres, in Angola. As 2024 began, and since the island has no merchant ships, the nation that made the donation asked a local company to take charge of processing and transporting the cargo. (more…)
By John Perry on April 7, 2025
These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.
Sanctions are a form of hybrid warfare that harms or even kills the target populations at little cost to the country imposing them. In Latin America alone, US sanctions (correctly known as “unilateral coercive measures”) have killed at least 100,000 Venezuelans. (more…)