Category: Latin America

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

Propaganda as “News”: Ecuador Allegedly Sells its Amazon Rainforest to China

Propaganda as "News": Ecuador Sells out Indigenous and the Environment to China Stansfield Smith, Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee, administrator of the Facebook groups "Friends of Ecuador -North America" and "Friends of Evo's Bolivia," leader of former Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5, has been on delegations to Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia in 2015. … Continue reading Propaganda as “News”: Ecuador Allegedly Sells its Amazon Rainforest to China

Venezuela:  Reportback From Election Delegation, the Role of US Interference, and the Economic Situation

Saturday, January 16th at 6:00 PM Stan Smith was a member of a delegation from the US, photos College of Complexes, weekly free speech forum Dappers East Restaurant, 2901 W. Addison (3600 north, between California and Kedzie) http://www.collegeofcomplexes.org  Article written by Stansfield Smith after being on a Dcember delegation to Venezuela http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/06/lessons-we-can-learn-from-the-electoral-setback-in-venezuela/

Lessons We Can Learn from the Electoral Setback in Venezuela

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/06/lessons-we-can-learn-from-the-electoral-setback-in-venezuela/ The most important lesson for solidarity activists and opponents of the US Empire is the crucial role of our international solidarity in defending Third World countries under threat. The constant corporate media disinformation war on target countries such as Venezuela is as much a weapon of aggression and a tool for regime change as … Continue reading Lessons We Can Learn from the Electoral Setback in Venezuela

Report from Delegation to Venezuela

The US corporate press is continually full of anti-Chavista propaganda, just as it was against Qaddaffi. One purpose of this propaganda is drive a wall between the solidarity of the US people with Venezuela. In this they have in a large part succeeded. We must recognize that the US cannot invade a country without neutralizing the … Continue reading Report from Delegation to Venezuela

Soft Coups in Latin America: How Left-Liberal Alternative Media and Environmental NGOs Help the US in Bolivia and Ecuador

The US now engineers “regime change” not so much by using the military, in part because of their military quagmires in the Middle East, in part because Obama has sought to give a new face and new credibility to the Empire after the damage it suffered during Bush years. The US relies on soft coups: media … Continue reading Soft Coups in Latin America: How Left-Liberal Alternative Media and Environmental NGOs Help the US in Bolivia and Ecuador

Tour of Jesse Freeston and Dr. Luther Castillo, “Resistencia” and “Revolutionary Medicine”

Free Simón Trinidad! Support Peace in Colombia! Simón Trinidad (Ricardo Palmera), is a political prisoner, a member of the FARC-EP, who has been held in solitary confinement by the United States government for over 10 years. The Colombian government and the FARC-EP have been locked in a civil war for over 50 years. A former … Continue reading Tour of Jesse Freeston and Dr. Luther Castillo, “Resistencia” and “Revolutionary Medicine”

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