The African Marxist and liberation leader of Guinea, Amílcar Cabral, once said, most famously, “Claim no easy victories.” Today’s revolutionary activists looking at Latin America and the Caribbean should keep that phrase in mind as they review the month of October 2019. Massive popular struggles set back rightist regimes. Electoral . . .
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The writer is of African descent from the United States, currently living in Quito. For more than 10 days at the beginning of October, Ecudorians across the nation revolted against President Lenín Moreno’s austerity Decree 883 announced to satisfy part of the U.S.-based International Monetary Fund’s loan conditions. As part . . .
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The Venceremos Brigade has been sending volunteers annually to revolutionary Cuba since 1969. Brigadistas work alongside the Cuban people to learn about the gains of the Revolution and to challenge the 1963 travel ban prohibiting U.S. citizens from going to that country. This year is the 50th anniversary of the . . .
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According to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union released Oct. 24, over 5,400 children have been separated from their families by U.S. immigration authorities at the Mexican border since July 2017. While a federal judge in San Diego on June 26, 2018, ordered that the children be reunited . . .
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On a cold and rainy Oct. 25 in much of Algeria, tens of thousands of people came out for the 36th successive Friday demonstration. They demanded the government free all protesters the cops had arrested in previous demonstrations, plus free and fair elections, and that interim President Abdelkader Bensalah, his . . .
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Since the middle of September, the Haitian masses have made one point over and over again: President Jovenel Moïse must leave — and take all his hangers-on and all his cronies in the Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale (Haitian Party of Baldheads) with him. Translation of Kreyol banner: ‘Stuff has to . . .
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