Workers Struggles: The Americas
Non-contract teachers in Sao Paulo, Brazil strike against privatization, while a strike vote by Canadian rail workers at CPKC and CN is set to conclude May 1.
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Costa Rica
“This is about the people removing the yoke of imperialism”
Thousands march in Costa Rica against right-wing Chaves administration
Broad sectors of the population coalesced around numerous demands, with the defense of public healthcare and education foremost, in the largest demonstration since at least 2019.
•Andrea Lobo
Costa Rican workers strike against health care privatization
The working class has demonstrated its resolve to resist the decades-long wave of social cuts, but is repeatedly betrayed by the trade union bureaucracy and its pseudo-left apologists.
•Andrea Lobo
Costa Rican workers protest IMF austerity talks; Two Haitian students die in jobs protests
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Workers set up road blocks across Costa Rica over government talks with the IMF while at least two university students in Haiti have died during protests over lack of job openings for graduates.
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Costa Rican government imposes ban on political strikes
Thousands of public sector workers, including teachers, doctors, nurses, electricians, trash collectors and others went on a national strike on Tuesday to oppose this historic attack on democratic rights.
•Andrea Lobo
Strikes in Chile, Costa Rica and Honduras
Teachers struggles erupt across Latin America
The response by the ruling class to the resistance led by teachers has been the same everywhere: the claim that there is “no money” and police state repression.
•Andrea Lobo
After 89 days, trade unions sell out historic strike in Costa Rica
It was the longest strike in Costa Rican history, marking a new stage in the growth of the class struggle and revealing that the treachery of the trade unions knows no bounds.
•Andrea Lobo
Costa Rican public-sector strike enters third week
The response of the ruling class to a coming economic avalanche has been to prepare the largest economic plundering of the working class in Costa Rican history.
•Andrea Lobo
Fascists stage pogromist march against Nicaraguan migrants in Costa Rica
Fascist thugs marched on Saturday in several major parks and avenues armed with knives, bats and Molotov cocktails to attack Nicaraguan migrants.
•Andrea Lobo
“We’ll be austere… strict… rigorous”
Costa Rican president threatens workers with renewed social attacks during inaugural address
Alvarado, a former local marketing executive for the transnational P&G, delivered the kind of “talk” normally given by a tactless manager to workers facing a mass layoff.
•Andrea Lobo
Mass May Day protests in Costa Rica ahead of inauguration of right-wing government
The outgoing president warned of coming social explosions in his farewell address to Congress.
•Andrea Lobo
After election, Costa Rica’s ruling party announces austerity-driven “National Unity Government”
Polls indicated Costa Rican workers are desperately seeking an alternative to the traditional parties, their pseudo-left apologists and the ongoing austerity policies.
•Andrea Lobo
Thousands of teachers strike as Costa Rican unions suppress struggle
About 5,000 workers marched last week against the government’s austerity measures, even as the union leaderships are sabotaging their struggle.
•Andrea Lobo
Forty thousand public sector workers strike against Costa Rican government
Workers spoke to the WSWS in opposition to a set of government reforms attacking their incomes and democratic rights.
•Andrea Lobo
Costa Rica closes its borders to Cuban migrants
The tensions between Central American governments have exposed the fragility of three decades of supposed economic, political and social integration.
•Andrea Lobo
Washington’s mediator in Honduran coup
Who is Oscar Arias?
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has been promoted in the US media as the ideal choice for mediating a settlement between the ousted Honduran president and the leaders of the military coup that overthrew him.
•Bill Van Auken