South and Central America
Jamaica state of siege: Scores dead, hundreds detained
By Bill Van Auken, May 28, 2010
Scores have been killed or wounded and hundreds arrested in what critics describe as indiscriminate violence by Jamaican security forces besieging the impoverished Kingston neighborhood of Tivoli Gard...
Workers rally in support of Puerto Rican students
By Rafael Azul, May 21, 2010
Thousands rallied across Puerto Rico on May 18th in support of striking Puerto Rican students and in opposition to the austerity policies of the governor.
Police attack student strikers at University of Puerto Rico
By Rafael Azul, May 17, 2010
On May 14, Puerto Rican security forces moved to break a student strike by laying siege to the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico, in violation of the long-standing tradition of auton...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
May 5, 2010
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Puerto Rican students occupy four universities
By Alphonso Santana and Rafael Azul, April 28, 2010
Students have occupied Puerto Rico’s largest university, the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, in a suburb of San Juan, to oppose tuition increases and the privatization plans of Governor Lu...
Hundreds killed in Rio de Janeiro mudslides
By Rafael Azul, April 14, 2010
For the second time this year, scores of Brazilians have been victimized and left homeless by storms in Rio de Janeiro state.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
April 13, 2010
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Washington asserts colonial-style control of Haiti at UN donors’ conference
By Barry Grey, April 2, 2010
The international donors’ conference for Haiti, held Wednesday at the United Nations in New York, was a forum for the United States, in the persons of Bill and Hillary Clinton, to assert American co...
Bush, Clinton visit Port-au-Prince
Washington dictates terms to devastated Haiti
By Patrick Martin, March 24, 2010
Bush and Clinton preached capitalism as the solution to Haiti’s problems, pressing President René Préval to lift restrictions on the use of land by foreign NGOs and corporations. During the visit,...
New Chilean president to continue military occupation of earthquake ravaged regions
By Rafael Azul, March 15, 2010
Shortly after his March 11 inauguration, President Sebast’an Pi–era extended the state of emergency in central Chile and re-imposed the curfew in the Concepción region.
Haitian president at White House: US military occupation to continue
By Hiram Lee, March 12, 2010
President Obama and Haitian President René Préval met at the White House on Wednesday to discuss ongoing recovery and reconstruction efforts in Haiti.
Earthquake exposes social chasm in Chile
By Rafael Azul, March 8, 2010
Anger is mounting in Chile over the inadequacy and indifference that have characterized the governmentÕs response to the earthquake of February 27.
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