Caribbean

Cuba’s Economic Crisis: US Sanctions and the Problem of ‘Overcompliance’ 

November 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Collapsed States, Cuba, Global South, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Joy Gordon, published on LaMonde Diplomatique, October 7, 2024 Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US imposed severe new economic measures against the island nation. In the[…]

Black Alliance for Peace Denounces the Renewal of the U.S.-Kenya Mission to Haiti

October 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Haiti, Monroe Doctrine, US Foreign Bases, US Intervention

Statement by the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, October 14, 2024 The Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti Needs to End OCTOBER 14, 2024— The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace strongly denounces the UN Security Council’s vote to extend the U.S. funded, Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti. We assert that any U.S./UN-led armed intervention[…]

Cuba: Blackout And Blockade

October 22, 2024 UNAC Editor Cuba, Economic Blockade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

By La Jornada editorial on October 21, 2024 Cuba is going through its greatest energy crisis, with practically the entire island and 10 out of 11 million inhabitants deprived of electricity. The blackouts that have been occurring with increasing frequency and duration for some time now, turned into a total collapse of the electrical system as a result of the[…]

Why Secretary of State Antony Blinken went to Haiti

September 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Economic Collapse, Haiti, International Aid and Debt, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, September 13, 2024 Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Sept. 5 and 6, the first visit by a high level U.S. official in nearly 10 years. That means Blinken made a special visit to Haiti, a country that is the most exploited and poorest in the[…]

Cuba’s Parallel Reality in Paris Olympics

August 23, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, CIA, Colonialism, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Imperial Lies and Liars

by Rosa Miriam Elizalde, published on Socialist Action, August 16, 2024 Cuba’s Parallel Reality in Paris Olympics Miserable is a society that imposes repudiatory practices of inquisition and falsehood. Miserable are those who deny Cuba the joy of its nine Olympic medals, the same number won by Denmark, a country without a U.S. blockade and without the press and the[…]

US Government Exploits Animosity Towards Migrants to Demonize Socialist Countries

July 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Cuba, Global South, Imperialism, Monroe Doctrine, Nicaragua, Peoples' Movements, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, US Hypocrisy

by Jill Clark Gollub, published on the Orinoco Tribune, July 9, 2024 The Republican party has been waging a blatantly racist campaign to criminalize migrants. Instead of pushing back on that narrative, the party that purports to be for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Democrats) is exploiting this racist anger to discredit a country it has targeted for regime change—Nicaragua—apparently for[…]

Palestinians Starve While White House Feast Honors Kenya’s Killer President Ruto: Biden Backs 1000 Kenyan Troops to Enforce US-imposed Haitian Dictatorship

July 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Haiti, Imperialism, Kenya, US Government Action, US Politics

by Joe Allen, published on Socialist Action, July 11, 2024 [Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler (of SA): We reprint here Joe Allen’s CounterPunch account of “Genocide Joe” Biden’s May 23 White House state dinner with 500 dignitaries invited to honor Kenyan President William Ruto. Allen’s article was originally entitled, “Brandon Johnson [ChicagoMayor] Dines with Biden, While Protests at the DNC Loom on[…]

Haiti: An Anatomy of an Invasion

June 3, 2024 UNAC Editor Haiti, Neocolonialism, Racism, United Nations

by Jemima Pierre, published on Black Agenda Report, May 29, 2024 The US is behind the multinational military invasion and occupation of Haiti. How did we get here? As all eyes are on the genocide in Gaza, Haiti is undergoing a full scale foreign military invasion. As of May 16th, thirty large transport planes have landed at Toussaint Louverture International[…]

The Price of Freedom

November 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Occupation, Palestine, Resistance, War on the Earth, War on the Poor

by Ana Hurtado, published on Resumen English, November 23, 2023 The dictatorship of the multinationals. We can call it by various names. Also of capital. Of the civilized world. If Luis Buñuel were to come back to life and take a look at the world we live in today, he would have material for thousands and thousands of films. He[…]

Palestine: History Will not Forgive the Indifferent, and We Will not be Among Them

November 5, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

by Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of Cuba, published on Resumen English, October 28, 2023 Sixty-three years ago, in a historic speech before the United Nations General Assembly, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, said and I quote: “Wars, since the beginning of humanity, have arisen, fundamentally, for one reason: the desire of some to dispossess others of[…]