January 2009

by Marco Rosaire Rossi

In late August, inside a capital city in Central America, a giant banner was hung portraying Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and Bolivia’s President Evo Morales. The banner advocated the signing of ALBA—which in English stands for the Bolivarian Alterna-tive for the Americas and means “dawn” in Spanish. ALBA is a trade agreement between Latin American countries that supports the principles of solidarity, non-interference, respect for independence, complementarity, and fair trade, a trade . . .

April 2008

by Grace Cox

Simón Bolívar, Ernesto Che Guevara, Augusto Cesar Sandino are but three of the revolutionary heroes of Latin America who held one belief in common – that the people of Latin America are one people. Unity of Latin America, from the southwestern United States to Tierra del Fuego, is the foundation upon which can be built self-determination and freedom from European and US imperialism. Hundreds of years of foreign exploitation, military intervention, revolution and counter-revolution make the statement, “these are tumultuous times in Latin America” a tautology.