Category: Latin America

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

Venezuela is not a Threat, We are Hope

Venezuela no es una Amenaza, Somos Esperanza Maximilien Sánchez Arvelaiz Ambassador designate, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela   Thursday, May 14 at 7:00pm DePaul University, Schmitt Academic Center, Room 164 2320 N. Kenmore, Chicago  Sponsored by DePaul University  Department of History,  & Chicago Stands with Venezuela follow us on Facebook: Chicago Stands with Venezuela

Chicago celebrates the Return of the Cuban 5, Steps Ending the US Travel Ban and Blockade against Cuba – and Opposes US Sanctions on Venezuela

On Tuesday, December 23 at the Chicago Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela over 100 people turned out to celebrate Cuba’s victory and to oppose the new sanctions on Venezuela. Let's not allow the US government to take its boot off the neck of Cuba, just to put it on Venezuela's. The freeing of … Continue reading Chicago celebrates the Return of the Cuban 5, Steps Ending the US Travel Ban and Blockade against Cuba – and Opposes US Sanctions on Venezuela

Ten Years of ALBA: Building a Better World South of the Border

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/19/building-a-better-world-south-of-the-border/ https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/ten-years-alba%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%99s-achievements-celebrated Stansfield Smith, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5, and member of the Latin America Solidarity Coalition. This week we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America), an anti-imperialist and anti-neoliberal alliance of Latin American countries. ALBA, meaning dawn in Spanish, is a … Continue reading Ten Years of ALBA: Building a Better World South of the Border