Caribbean

Remembering Jamaica in the East/West Crossfire

January 20, 2025 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Jamaica, US Intervention

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 8, 2025 Jamaicans still remember their visionary leaders, Norman and Michael Manley, and the bloody general election of 1980. I’m writing this from Jamaica while visiting an expat friend. I was here many years ago, in the late 70s, when Democratic Socialist Michael Manley was in power, Bob Marley was alive,[…]

Cubans End 2024 with Massive March Against US Blockade

January 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by W.T. Whitney, published on Labor Today International, January 7, 2025 Cubans numbering in the hundreds of thousands marched on December 20 along Havana’s emblematic Malecon roadway fronting the Florida Straits. President Miguel Díaz Canel and former President Raul Castro took the lead in a massive protest against stepped-up US efforts to immiserate Cubans and bring down their socialist government.[…]

The Ghost of Jimmy Carter

January 11, 2025 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Austerity, Haiti, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Syria

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 8, 2025 Hagiography is inevitable when presidents and other prominent people die. The unwillingness to ‘speak ill of the dead’ and the propaganda that would have us believe in American exceptionalism must be rejected. Jimmy Carter was always devoted to protecting the interests of the U.S. state. “All US Presidents, Living[…]

U.S. Schemes to Control Haiti are Failing

December 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Haiti, Kenya, United Nations, US Intervention

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, November 20, 2024 Misery and hunger are afflicting millions of Haitians. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), 5.41 million Haitians are “food insecure,” which means they regularly don’t get enough to eat. Most Haitians, according to the IPC report, spend 70% of their income on food. The IPC report and[…]

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[…]