South and Central America
Paraguay: Election ends six decades of one-party rule
By Bill Van Auken, April 23, 2008
The election victory Sunday of former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo brings an end to 61 years of unbroken rule by the right-wing Colorado Party.
At least 14 Haitian migrants drowned off the coast of the Bahamas
By Hiram Lee, April 23, 2008
The US Coast Guard continued searching Tuesday for as many as 10 Haitian migrants still missing in the waters northwest of Nassau, Bahamas after an incident Saturday in which a boat capsized leaving 1...
Cuban “reforms” promote private property and social inequality
By Bill Van Auken, April 17, 2008
The Cuban government was compelled to issue a statement Wednesday denying that the series of reforms announced by President Raul Castro in the barely two months since his assuming the reins of power f...
Haiti: Thousands protest over growing hunger
By Bill Van Auken, April 5, 2008
Thousands of Haitians took to the streets Thursday to protest against soaring food prices and growing hunger in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.
Argentina: Truce in three-week agricultural strike
By Jadir Antunes, April 3, 2008
Leaders of Argentina’s four major agricultural producers’ organizations announced a 30-day truce in the three-week-old strike and road blockades that have shaken the country for the past t...
Ecuador: deepening crisis, floods trigger surge of inflation
By Asher Brum, March 28, 2008
In Ecuador, it is clear that inflation for the first quarter of this year is going to surpass the rate projected by the government for all of 2008, according to statistics from the country’s Cen...
Brazil’s ruling Workers Party pays homage to Pierre Lambert for services rendered
By Hector Benoit, March 17, 2008
The death in January of Pierre Lambert, the long-time leader of the French Organisation Communiste Internationaliste (OCI) and its successor, the Parti des Travailleurs (PT), occasioned widespread pre...
Latin American crisis triggered by an assassination “Made in the USA”
By Bill Van Auken, March 7, 2008
Nearly a week after Colombia’s cross-border raid against an encampment of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrilla movement in neighboring Ecuador, Latin America continues to ...
US-backed border massacre brings South America to brink of war
By Bill Van Auken, March 5, 2008
The Colombian military’s massacre last Saturday of 17 members of the guerrilla movement FARC, including its second in command, on Ecuadoran soil has brought tensions in the region to an unpreced...
Fidel Castro retires as Cuban president after 49 years in power
By Patrick Martin, February 20, 2008
Fidel Castro, the last of the “third-world” nationalists who rose to power in the 1950s and 1960s and came into conflict with American imperialism, announced Tuesday that he was retiring a...
Colombian rebel leader sentenced to 60 years over captured contractors
By Bill Van Auken, January 31, 2008
A Washington, DC federal court Monday handed down a draconian 60-year sentence against a leader and negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a guerrilla movement that has been...
Philip Agee, former agent who exposed CIA crimes, dies in Cuba
By Patrick Martin, January 14, 2008
Philip Agee, the former CIA operative who broke with the agency and devoted his life to exposing its role in political subversion, assassination, torture and support for military dictatorships, died J...
