Chavannes Jean-Baptiste is the Executive Director of the Peasant Movement of Papay in Haiti, the oldest peasant organization in Haiti, and, in Chavannes’ words, “possibly the oldest in the world.”
SOA Watch, the grassroots movement to close the School of the Americas, has documented countless cases of human rights abuses perpetrated by the school’s graduates.
As 2012 begins, a growing movement of displaced people and their allies in Haiti is actively claiming the right to housing, which is recognized by both the Haitian constitution and international treaties to which Haiti is signatory.
The US role in torture has long been established through its support of military and right wing dictatorships in Latin America.
Looking at President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal economic reforms to see if a new New Deal has any merit.
Rain clouds ringed the lush hillsides and poor neighborhoods cradling Caracas, Venezuela as dozens of Latin American and Caribbean heads of state trickled out of the airport and into motorcades and hotel rooms. They were gathering for the foundational summit of a new regional bloc aimed at self-determination outside the scope of Washington’s power.
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