Latin America & Caribbean

The focus of the Latin America and Caribbean Working Group is to stand in opposition to US regime change operations, brutal economic sanctions, and cruel immigration policies. Because of the long, tragic history of US interference in Latin America and the Caribbean nations, the growing injustices of U.S. immigration policies and practices are irrevocably linked to the foreign policy of the US, past and present.

History 

Massachusetts Peace Action members formed this group in 2019. Our concerns, which originally focused on regime change in Venezuela and immigration policy, have broadened. We oppose efforts of the United States to dominate (politically, militarily, economically) and exploit any country in this hemisphere—such intervention has a bloody history. We seek to act in solidarity with the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in their struggles for self-determination, human rights, and justice for all sectors of their societies. Thus, for example, we oppose U.S. attempts at regime change in Nicaragua and Cuba; we condemn U.S. support for overturning popular gains that had been made in Bolivia, Haiti, and Honduras. We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with other groups to advance human rights in Latin American and Caribbean countries by, for example, supporting the passage of the Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Act, supporting the rights of indigenous peoples, and working with “Stop Arms to Mexico” to end arms sales to Mexico and Central American countries.

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Berta Cáceres in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras in 2015. (coolloud, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Migration as Resistance

by Aviva Chomsky Originally published in TomDispatch.com with additional photos from Consortium News Earlier this month, a Honduran court found David Castillo, a U.S.-trained former Army intelligence officer and the head of an internationally financed hydroelectric company, guilty of the 2016 murder of celebrated Indigenous activist Berta

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People carry a poster with photographs of Fidel Castro, President Miguel Diaz-Canel and former president Raul Castro during a rally in Havana on July 17, 2021.Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters
What’s Happening in Cuba?

By Merriam Ansara  Will the current situation in Cuba lead to US-backed violence in Cuba?  To answer that question, we first need an understanding of what’s happening. The violence isn’t new. In fact, there has been ongoing violence from the United States towards Cuba for

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Get Involved

The Latin America/Caribbean Working Group (LA/CWG) meet on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 5 pm. If you’d like to get involved please email John Ratliff at jmr@riseup.net or Yoav Elinevsky at yoav@masspeaceaction.org.

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