Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee
When the New York Times publishes an op-ed piece stating that Honduras is
“descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss” and adds
that this is “in good part the State Department’s making,”
something is changing. (Jan. 26)...
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“A social movement strong enough to force change.” That
statement could describe the Occupy Wall Street movement, but it refers to the
struggle of Mexican electrical workers and Mexican miners in Cananea, Sonora.
Leaders from these struggles will open the 8th U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America
Labor Conference on Dec. 2 in Tijuana, Mexico....
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This Dec. 2, 3 and 4 workers from the U.S., Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela,
Argentina and other Latin American countries will analyze the global capitalist
crisis, its effects on workers throughout the hemisphere and with real examples
showing how to combat it. Three days of intensive classes and discussion --
Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1 , with teachers from Cuba's Lazaro Pena workers'
school -- will precede the conference....
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Alfonso Cano, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) was killed in combat on Nov. 4 by the
Colombian Army in that country’s southwest region of Cauca. For several
hours that day, dozens of helicopters and planes surrounded this rural area,
the home of peasant families, and then they started bombing, hitting the place
where the FARC leader was....
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From capitalist media pundits to the Occupy Wall Street encampments
struggling to hold public space in countless cities and towns across the U.S.,
this question is bubbling underneath the daily actions and police
repression....
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The U.S. government’s façade that it is a champion of democracy
and respectful of other countries’ sovereignty has once again been torn
away by Washington’s recent treatment of two distinct governments in two
Latin American countries: Colombia and Ecuador....
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The Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee of the
International Action Center & HondurasUSAResistencia urges everyone to read
the following statement in solidarity with the people of Honduras. A wave of
repression is sweeping the country and the movement in the US must say no. We
urge everyone to organize an contingent in solidarity with Latin America &
the Caribbean and the historic April 9 anti-war actions in NYC and San
Francisco. Si se puede!...
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After receiving massive support in Cuba, a delegation of Iranian activists has visited Venezuela in the second stop of its tour of Latin American countries, an effort designed to promote international solidarity with Iran....
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Hundreds of thousands of Haitians still live under tarps and tents because
their houses were destroyed in the Jan. 12 earthquake. Hundreds are dying every
week from an epidemic of cholera caused by lack of access to clean water. Haiti
is still occupied by Minustah, the U.N.’s armed force for the
“stabilization” of this impoverished country....
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For the seventh consecutive year, union leaders, social movement activists
and socialists from many countries in the Western Hemisphere came together in
this dynamic border city on the first weekend in December for intense
discussions. They focused on the global crisis of the imperialist system, its
increasing belligerence and its devastating attacks on the living conditions of
the international working class....
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Latin American solidarity and anti-imperialist activists around the world, as well as the people of Latin America did not need WikiLeaks’ “leaked” documents to tell them what they already knew: the U.S. government was well aware that the June 28, 2009 ouster of democratically and legitimately elected President Jose Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was illegal and unconstitutional....
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From Dec. 3 to 5 in Tijuana, Mexico — just minutes from the San Diego,
Calif., airport — a cross-section of workers from Latin America who are
confronting the global crisis will meet with U.S. workers grappling with
devastating challenges. Building on six previous conferences, the
meeting’s aim is to grow the unity of the working class in the Americas
and increase its influence — from the tip of Chile to Alaska — by
sharing problems but also examining strategies to fight and win....
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Nectalí Rodezno, Attorney and Coordinator
of the National Lawyers Front
Against the Military Coup in Honduras, Is leading an extensive tour in the United States during the
month November,exposing the truth of what really happened in Honduras, during
the military coup in June 28th, 2009....
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The U.N. General Assembly on Oct. 26 voted 187 to 2 against the 48-year
economic blockade of Cuba. Only the U.S. and Israel voted for it. Palau,
Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained....
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In Mexico, from Nov. 3-11, Migrants & their supporters will
declare:...
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Worker s (CTC) will visit Tijuana,
Mexico, a border city 15 minutes south of downtown San Diego and the
San Diego Airport - U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people
from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to
hear first hand from the Latinoamerican and Caribbean workers. Also, you will
hear from Union leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Haiti,
Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the
U.S. discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas.
and coordinators of Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America have also been
invited. ESNA is a new development that involves the largest and most militant
labor federations throughout Latin America.
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Resolution in Support of the Cuban Five, their Rights to Fair
Trial and Visitation Rights for their Families...
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n October 6, 1976 a civilian Cuban airliner took off from the coast of Barbados towards Cuba. Among the 73 passengers on board was the Cuban Junior Fencing team who were proudly returning to their island with gold medals. Along with them were 11 humble students from Guyana who were to begin studying in Cuba, five passengers of the Democratic Republic of Korea, among them a young girl. There were 57 Cuban passengers and flight crew on that plane. But flight 455 never made it to its destination. Its 73 passengers died a horrible death when a bomb, ordered to be placed in the plane by the international terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, blew up in mid air....
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The Ecuadorean people came into the streets by the thousands to confront the
national police and prevent a coup and possible assassination of President
Rafael Correa on Sept. 30. A section of about 800 of these police had kept the
president captive for 14 hours at the Police Hospital in Quito before military
units brought him back to the presidential palace....
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The plight of the Cuban Five is never far from the minds of progressive
people around the world. This Sept. 12, exactly 12 years since their arrest in
the United States for defending Cuba from terrorist attacks, organizations and
individuals intensified demands for their release through petitions,
demonstrations and ad campaigns....
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The U.S. corporate press was silent when thousands of Hondurans poured into
the streets of Tegucigalpa on Sept. 7 to join the 12-hour national strike
called by the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP). It affected all 18
provinces and paralyzed the streets of 11 Honduran cities. Traffic was stopped
on roads and bridges. ...
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Hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been living in misery for more than
seven months — without houses, jobs, sanitation, potable water or
electricity. The lucky ones have tents for shelter, others only tarps or
sheets....
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August was a month of fierce struggle in Honduras. The National Popular
Resistance Front (FNRP) has engaged in strikes, marches and sit-ins, while the
government of Honduras has responded with ruthless repression. Speaking Sept. 6
on the resistance station Radio Globo, Juan Barahona, assistant coordinator of
FNRP and president of the United Workers Federation, said he had never seen
such brutality by the military and police in Honduras, not even in the
1980s....
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The International Action Center has announced the formation of the Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee. The committee has already begun planning a number of events in solidarity with the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) of Honduras....
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Tens of thousands of teachers in Puerto Rico held a one-day work stoppage Aug. 26 to protest the neoliberal Gov. Luis Fortuño’s offensive, which has left the island’s education system in shambles. This historic stoppage shut 90 percent of the island’s schools. Teachers showed great resistance, as the recent successful student strike of the University of Puerto Rico also did....
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