Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo: An Urgent Call for Solidarity with Nicaragua

An Urgent Call for Solidarity with Nicaragua Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo Rural Workers Association MaY 17, 2018 Friends in Solidarity, - We have lived a month full of tragedy in our country. The peace we achieved as a people, so fragile and at the cost of so many lives, is in immanent danger of … Continue reading Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo: An Urgent Call for Solidarity with Nicaragua

Open Letter in Support of Mediation not Sanctions on Venezuela

The Alliance for Global Justice along with other defenders of Venezuelan sovereignty call on Congresspeople, the President, members of Parliament and the Prime Minister of Canada to support the recent progress in dialogue made in Venezuela, rather than impose more sanctions, and remove those now in place. Previously there were longstanding mediation talks talking place … Continue reading Open Letter in Support of Mediation not Sanctions on Venezuela

Charlie Hardy: Before and After the Arrival of Hugo Chavez

BEFORE AND AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF CHAVEZ by Charles Hardy [March 5 is the anniversary of Hugo Chavez' death in 2013] I came to Venezuela in 1985 as a Roman Catholic missionary priest. I left Venezuela many years later as a militant activist. I felt I had a responsibility to become a voice for those … Continue reading Charlie Hardy: Before and After the Arrival of Hugo Chavez

Pasqualina Curcio “The Visible Hand of the Market”: An Invitation to a Debate of Ideas

http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2017/11/15/pasqualina-curcio-la-mano-visible-del-mercado-una-invitacion-al-debate-de-ideas/ Pasqualina Curcio is Professor in the Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences at the Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela. In her recent book “The Visible Hand of the Market: Economic War in Venezuela”, with a foreword by the prominent intellectual Luis Britto García. Here she explains the causes of the complex situation of the … Continue reading Pasqualina Curcio “The Visible Hand of the Market”: An Invitation to a Debate of Ideas

Venezuela’s National Network of Communes Statement to the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly

Below is a statement by the communal movement in Venezuela. In spite of what it states about the role they think the communes deserve to play in the economic life of the country, the communes actually have had little impact on national production. However, some of its proposals reflect the demands and sentiments of the … Continue reading Venezuela’s National Network of Communes Statement to the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly

Venezuela: “We live under a financial dictatorship, under an ongoing business coup”

Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was founded in Venezuela in 1890. “We live under a financial dictatorship, under an ongoing business coup - they do not produce enough because they do not want to, because they wish to see us Chavistas defeated” SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART IN VENEZUELA Translated by Stansfield … Continue reading Venezuela: “We live under a financial dictatorship, under an ongoing business coup”

Open Letter to President Obama to Take Concrete Action on Ending the US Blockade/Embargo on Cuba, and to Return Guantanamo to Cuba

Open Letter to President Obama to Take Concrete Action on Ending the US Blockade/Embargo on Cuba, and to Return Guantanamo to Cuba We welcome President Obama’s decision to travel to Cuba for talks with the Cuban government. We undersigned organizations and individuals call on President Obama to take concrete actions on two outstanding issues to … Continue reading Open Letter to President Obama to Take Concrete Action on Ending the US Blockade/Embargo on Cuba, and to Return Guantanamo to Cuba

Interview with Alberto Roque Guerra

Alberto Roque Guerra has been active in the LGBT movement in Cuba for a number of years. He was interviewed on July 12, 2015 in Havana by Stan Smith of the Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee. May 24, 2014 he spoke in Chicago on the case of the Cuban 5 political prisoners in an event partly … Continue reading Interview with Alberto Roque Guerra