Carribean and South American Affairs

The world has been horrified by the images of colossal devastation coming out of Haiti. Its capital, Port-au-Prince brutally devastated by a massive magnitude 7.0 earthquake, lies in ruins, a tomb of corpses, the wounded, and suffering.  read more »

When I heard Rio had been awarded the 2016 Olympic Games over Chicago, I was conflicted about Chicago's loss, the city where I lived until a couple of months ago. Wandia Njoya perceptively captures why Chicago lost, notwithstanding the syrupy interventions of the Obamas and Oprah that did not move the Olympic officials. She observes that for much of the world the United States remains unloved as an aggressive imperial power despite Obama's election.

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By the time the first phase of the Cuban war for independence began in 1868, Cuba and Puerto Rico were the only two colonial Latin American possessions Spain retained control over. In the aftermath of losing its mainland empire in the early 19th century, Spain held a tight grip on both islands.  read more »

It is with great admiration, pride and respect that I pen this belated homage to Aimé Césaire, a son of Martinique and a child of Africa.

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The Yahoo! Headlines that invade my consciousness every time I log off my email account are often annoying. The patronizing reports about Asia, pessimistic ones about Africa and gooey ones about US - from Hollywood fashion to the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are, frankly speaking, often irrelevant and an assault on my soul and sanity. But occasionally I get to see an amusing headline.  read more »

I came to Boscobel Beach on vacation but what did I get?  read more »

Jacques Depelchin reflects on the growing economic, political and cultural relationship between Brazil and the Africa and urges for a solidarity from below that is cognizant of black revolutionary history.  read more »

"He had faults, like other men; but it was for his virtues that he was hated and successfully calumniated."--Bertrand Russell, on the American revolutionary Thomas Paine.  read more »

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Venezuela's democratically elected Present Chavez faces the most serious threat since the April 11, 2002 military coup, writes James Petras.

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African Americans sometimes embarrass themselves, often without know it, by assuming that others from the Diaspora see the world in the same way as themselves, writes Italo Ramos. Blacks from other nations are also frequently puzzled and confused by U.S. Black behavior, and even the concept of Blackness that prevails in the United States.  read more »

Explorer's reputation is victim of region's pink tide of leftwing governments, report Rory Carroll in Caracas and Lola Almudevar in Sucre  read more »

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Judith Scherr writes, In the twilight of dawn, U.S.  read more »

Rory Carroll and Lola Almudevar write, When the haggard and broken figure was laid out on the slab and displayed to the world it was not just Che Guevara who had died. The dream of socialist revolution in South America was over.  read more »