Latin America and the Caribbean
Is Venezuela Turning Further Left?

Is Venezuela Turning Further Left?

In the wake of Venezuela’s successful election this summer, and with the Chavista movement having clear momentum headed into the October 15th regional elections, the U.S. government is turning the screws on the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. Donald Trump affirmed...

Honoring Juana Ramirez “La Avanzadora”

Honoring Juana Ramirez “La Avanzadora”

“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” –Malcolm X I am an Afro-Dominican woman from the Bronx, New York and...

The Legacy of the Grenadian Revolution Lives On

The Legacy of the Grenadian Revolution Lives On

The following article is republished from Invent the Future with the permission of the author.   “The Grenada Revolution was a grasp of joy … that life unfulfilled could and would change, be transformed for a people who had known 400 years of transportation, slavery,...

April 1965 and the Unfinished Dominican Revolution

On April 28, 1965, 42,000 U.S. troops poured into the Dominican Republic to put down the beginnings of a democratic revolution in the Caribbean country. That invasion and the repression that followed continue to shape the Dominican people’s struggle for true...