Geography Archives: Caribbean

One of the most persistent and recycled claims in anti-communist “left” discourse is the way Black radical scholarship is selectively invoked to discredit Marxism itself.

From the heart of the U.S. colony, a geographer and activist explains that Washington’s “new” security strategy looks a great deal like the old one.

After the Trump Regime Hijacks a Venezuelan Vessel, Iran hits back by Confiscating an Oil Tanker, the Phoenix, under Cook Islands Flag.

Andreína Chávez traces a chilling line from the Zong Massacre to the U.S. military terror now unfolding in Caribbean waters.

Now he does feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.  —Macbeth, Act V, Scene 2  When tyrants feel they are losing their grip on power, they resort to dramatic gestures. And sometimes carry them out. Since 1984, the so-called War on Drugs, embodied in the Comprehensive Crime […]

What Washington is building is not merely a show of force; it is a forward posture aimed at breaking the Bolivarian Republic’s resistance and installing a pliant, pro-U.S. order in Caracas.

A Chavista organizer examines the U.S. militarization of the Caribbean and the Bolivarian Revolution’s enduring resistance to imperial aggression.

Solidarity activist and analyst Roger Harris takes stock of the rapidly escalating U.S. military threats against Venezuela.

A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region.

President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that U.S. troops deployed to the Caribbean attacked and destroyed a “drug ship” that had left Venezuela.

These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.

The United States today has by far the world’s largest incarceration rate, with nearly two million people living in prisons and jails. The conditions in those facilities are often substandard, with Amnesty International criticizing the dehumanizing practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. Benjamin Weber’s book, American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of […]

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reaffirms support for migrants amid Trump’s deportation plans, and proposes a regional summit to address the causes of immigration.

The festival highlights a cultural scene that is threatened by rising seas and dangerous storms.

Latin American and Caribbean leaders and governments from across the political spectrum have condemned the incursion into Mexico’s embassy as a grave violation of international law.

From February 22 to 24, 4,000 people from more than 20 countries gathered in Foz do Iguaçu for the Conference on the Integration of Latin American and Caribbean Peoples

The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than any other region, they have expressed their solidarity with Palestine. Most recognize that the partnership between U.S. imperialism and Israeli Zionism applies not only to Palestine, but also […]

The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country’s reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.

On March 8, 2023, General Laura J. Richardson of the United States (U.S.) Southern Command gave testimony at a congressional hearing wherein she issued a warning to U.S. lawmakers about the expansion of Chinese influence in the Caribbean that were at odds with purported U.S. interests in the region.

The Monroe Doctrine served Washington to declare unilaterally and as if it were a divine right, protector of the American continent, letting the rest of the world know where its zone of influence, expansion and predominance resided.