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.