W. T. Whitney Jr.

This report takes advantage of the cogent observations (see below) of Professor Isaac Saney, former co-chairperson of the Canadian Network on Cuba and Coordinator at Dalhousie University for

On March 16, Amadou Abdramane, spokesperson for Niger's governing military council, announced that the country was dropping its 12-year-old military cooperation agreement with the United States. Niger's military council assumed power following the coup in July 2023 that removed Mohamed Bazoum, the elected president.

President Obama in 2015 removed Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism (SSOT). President Trump reversed that action in January 2020, thereby aggravating economic difficulties for Cuba.

The United States Institute of Peace on Feb. 27 awarded its “Women Building Peace” award to Pétronille Vaweka. She’s a local official in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Ituri region, known as a peacemaker who’s negotiated ceasefires with powerful militias and saved numerous child...

U.S. Southern Command Chief Laura Richardson was visiting Argentina for the third time. On April 4 in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego—the world's southernmost city—she and U. S. Ambassador Marc Stanley were received by President Javier Milei, his chief-of-staff, his cabinet chief, the defense minister, the interior minister, a military band, and an honor guard—at midnight.

Taking note of International Workers’ Day, several Latin American news sources this year cited José Martí’s 1886 essay “A Terrible Drama;” two of them republished it, Resumen Latinoamericano and Tiempo Argentino.

Under U.S. arrangements, a so-called Multinational Security Support (MSS) force will soon be descending on Haiti. Its mission is suppressing gang violence. With their experience of earlier U.S. interventions, however, beleaguered Haitians can likely expect an aggravation of oppression, social disaster, and dependency.

“After more than ten years of corruption, crimes, and destroying the Rocoleta commune, finally the justice system begins to act and will make arrangements for the Communist mayor Daniel Jadue. I hope he goes to jail soon.”

As it has spread from industrialized countries, capitalism has extended its tentacles by means of enslavement, die-offs, wars, plunder, and thugs. Colombia has specialized in thugs since the 1970s. Paramilitaries, shock troops for Colombia's rich and powerful, are an arm of the official military, and a recent court decision in the United States has provoked questions about the paramilitaries' future and about official U.S. reactions.

The Cuban economy is the worse it's been since the “Special Period” following the end of the Soviet Union. The country is in the midst of a years-long economic contraction that's affecting food production and the availability of medicines.