Caribbean

Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

March 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Diplomacy, Global South, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention

by Helen Yaffe, published on Jacobin Magazine, March 8, 2024 The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s[…]

Where Does the Money Go? A Look at USAID Spending in Haiti

March 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Economic Collapse, Food Sovereignty, Haiti, Humanitarian Aid, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, U.S. Hegemony, US Hypocrisy

by Jake Johnston, published on Counterpunch, February 10, 2025 When you read this, keep in mind that the people of Haiti do not have a democratically elected government and have not had one since the US flew Aristide to Africa. Also remember that they don’t have jobs, medical services and reliable resources for ordinary living. [jb] “We’re shutting it[…]

Trump’s Policies Intensify Haiti’s Catastrophes

March 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Haiti, Human Rights, Immigration, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Neocolonialism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, February 28m 2025 Half of the population of Haiti — 5.4 million workers — don’t get enough to eat every day. According to the United Nations World Food Program, 2 million Haitians — the Internally Displaced People (IDP) driven from their homes by political violence — are facing extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition[…]

US Remittances to Cuba Suspended; the Hard Side of an Irrational Policy

February 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

from Prensa Latina, translated and published by Resumen English, February 10, 2025 Economic brutality against Cuba. It is incomprehensible except in so far as some will destroy whatever they cannot own. [jb[ A Western Union statement, cited in digital media, has revealed that, “due to a change in U.S. sanctions regulations,” the financial services company is forced to indefinitely suspend[…]

The Return of Donald Trump

January 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Immigrants, Immigration, Imperialism, US Politics, War and Peace

by José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero, published on Resumen English, January 25, 2025 Yes, Donald Trump has taken office as the 47th President of the United States. Due to the freezing temperatures, the ceremony had to be held indoors, which made the list of attendees even more select. Trump begins his second term with a majority for his party in the[…]

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[…]