Latin America and the Caribbean

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:46:13 GMT

A nationwide strike by Mexican teachers continues, while an eight-week strike by thousands of Nova Scotia care home workers has been suspended by the union ahead of a contract vote.

Bolivian workers’ insurrection enters sixth week defying Paz-Trump counterrevolutionary conspiracy

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:50:08 GMT

Thirty-six days into Bolivia's indefinite general strike, the Paz government has not broken the uprising.

Local authorities in Jalisco, Mexico move to silence well-known labor rights activist Luis Daniel Prieto Moreno

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:10:21 GMT

Prieto Moreno has maintained a regular protest presence outside the Lagos de Moreno municipal presidency, using hand-lettered signs and chants to denounce corruption and abuse of power by local officials.

The balance sheet of Castroism as Trump prepares war on Cuba

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:28:27 GMT

Workers in Cuba, the US and across the Americas must urgently mobilize in opposition to Trump’s blockade and war plans, but effective opposition to imperialism requires a historical balance sheet of Castroism and the Cuban Revolution.

Kast’s State of the Nation speech in Chile: Blueprint for social counterrevolution wrapped in “national unity” rhetoric

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:47:46 GMT

Kast’s speech was built around the conceit: that Chile is in a “state of emergency” requiring extraordinary measures, ruling through presidential decrees and demanding that the working class pay for a crisis it did not create.

Trump designates Brazilian gangs as “terrorist organizations” in new imperialist intervention in Latin America

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:58:05 GMT

The Trump administration's designation of Brazil's PCC and CV as Foreign Terrorist Organizations marks an ominous escalation of imperialist intervention in Brazilian politics.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:15:13 GMT

About 4,500 public service workers across the province of Ontario are entering their second week on strike, while journalists at four McClatchey-owned newspapers are pressing wage demands and restrictions on AI

Fascistic candidate tied to paramilitaries leads first round of Colombian elections

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:40:38 GMT

The runoff election in the third-largest country in Latin America, a long-standing hub for US operations, has started with allegations of fraud and appeals for military intervention.

US murder spree in Latin American waters moves beyond 200 killed

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:22:40 GMT

The Trump administration’s campaign of extrajudicial killings off the coast of Latin America has killed more than 200 people, exposing the complicity of the Democratic Party and all regional governments in the normalization of mass murder as imperialist policy.

Chile under the fascistic Kast government: Preliminary assessment of a social counterrevolution

Sun, 31 May 2026 22:59:19 GMT

The Kast administration has issued a battery of anti-democratic and pro-market executive decrees that will deepen already extreme social inequality, while vastly expanding police state structures built up under Boric.

Peru declares state of emergency as measles epidemic exposes crisis of capitalist-run public health

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:08:52 GMT

The outbreak has exposed once again the catastrophic failure of the capitalist state to guarantee the most basic conditions of life for the working class.

Colombian elections: how pseudo-leftist President Gustavo Petro paved way for ultra-right

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:03:05 GMT

That a fascistic figure like De la Espriella is running second in the polls is the direct product of four years of Petro's government.

Mexican government bows to Washington despite resisting US prosecution of politicians for cartel links

Fri, 29 May 2026 03:34:25 GMT

The Mexican government’s capitulation on migrants, Cuban oil, and operations by US troops and spies has only emboldened the Trump administration.

Bolivian government authorizes deployment of military against working class uprising

Fri, 29 May 2026 03:32:41 GMT

That MAS voted to hand repressive tools to a government already shooting its own citizens requires an explanation beyond factional rivalry.

São Paulo university strike: 10,000 march on governor’s palace in largest demonstration yet

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:50:47 GMT

As 10,000 marched in São Paulo, pseudo-left leaderships steered the strike toward negotiations with a state government and a legislature dominated by the far right.

US warplanes fly over Caracas in provocative show of semi-colonial dominance

Wed, 27 May 2026 03:31:58 GMT

The show of force was aimed squarely at intimidation and demonstrating who is in control. Top generals and warplanes can land and depart as though the country were any military outpost on US soil.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Tue, 26 May 2026 05:04:52 GMT

Hundreds of Argentine and Bolivian workers, students and retirees carried out a mass march through downtown Buenos Aires and rallied at the Bolivian embassy in support for the general strike and mobilization of the Bolivian proletariat and peasantry fighting to overthrow President Rodrigo Paz.

Trump administration targets Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trip

Tue, 26 May 2026 03:38:22 GMT

The McCarthyite probe, first reported by Fox News, targets antiwar activists, journalists and streamers who traveled to Cuba with medical aid.

Four weeks of general strike in Bolivia: US imperialism and its regional allies move to crush an uprising

Sat, 23 May 2026 02:06:23 GMT

As Bolivia's workers defy repression and maintain their indefinite strike into its fourth week, the international response exposes a single coordinated apparatus—from Washington's threats to Milei's alleged arms shipments to Lula's complicit silence.

The US indictment of Raúl Castro and the record of CIA terror against Cuba

Thu, 21 May 2026 03:47:39 GMT

The indictment of Raúl Castro is an abominable act of hypocrisy and imperialist propaganda to justify military aggression against an impoverished nation of less than 10 million people.

Bolivia’s indefinite national strike faces military repression

Tue, 19 May 2026 03:28:54 GMT

A national strike in Bolivia has continued to expand for more than two weeks in opposition to rising fuel costs and the right-wing policies of President Rodrigo Paz.

Mexican economy and investment plans founder amid war against Iran

Tue, 19 May 2026 02:16:13 GMT

On May 12, S&P Global Ratings revised Mexico’s credit outlook to negative from stable, citing persistently weak fiscal results, rising debt levels and weak economic growth.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Tue, 19 May 2026 01:47:41 GMT

Mass protests by teachers took place across Mexico May 15 demanding pensions, wages and education funding, while Toronto Transit Commission and CUPE reached a last-minute deal Monday after multiple deadlines passed.

University and school strikes shake São Paulo on the eve of explosive elections in Brazil

Sat, 16 May 2026 04:46:32 GMT

A week of near-daily mobilizations in São Paulo exposes the explosive crisis of the Brazilian bourgeois regime five months before the presidential elections.

CIA director’s trip to Havana paves way for regime change operation

Sat, 16 May 2026 02:38:41 GMT

The CIA owes much of its nickname—Murder Inc.—to its record of terrorist attacks on Cuba.

May Day and Morenoite opportunism in the face of Argentina’s revolutionary crisis

Thu, 14 May 2026 03:07:51 GMT

The political task facing the Argentine working class cannot be carried out within the framework of the FIT-U, nor on the basis of the politics of the PTS, whose objective function is that of a centrist obstacle to the development of revolutionary leadership.

The new scramble for Latin America and the road to revolution

Thu, 14 May 2026 01:00:50 GMT

This speech was delivered by Tomas Castanheira, leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in Brazil, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the ICFI.

Death of autoworker in Mexico exposes contempt of GM and union apparatus for workers' lives

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:30:20 GMT

After last week’s death of Jesús Martín Olivera at the GM Silao Complex, one worker at the plant said, “stress, the long working hours, and the production demands the company imposes are killing workers.”

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Tue, 12 May 2026 02:47:06 GMT

Job action by 55,000 BC nurses could be imminent, while unions in Bolivia have refused to negotiate with the La Paz regime, saying it is not legitimate.

Amid dozens of spy flights over Cuba, US sanctions drive out foreign companies

Tue, 12 May 2026 01:34:00 GMT

A report by CNN based on publicly available aviation data reveals a dramatic surge in US military intelligence flights around the island.

Extradition requests for top politicians deepen US-Mexico crisis

Sun, 10 May 2026 22:22:17 GMT

If Sheinbaum complies, she risks opening the floodgates to more US extradition requests, and fissures in her party. If she doesn’t, she risks aggression from an increasingly unhinged Trump administration.

Brazil’s Lula comes to White House, whitewashing Trump’s imperialist crimes

Sat, 09 May 2026 03:40:01 GMT

The Brazilian president’s posturing as a “left-wing” opponent of war collapsed with a single phone call from Trump—who reportedly signed off with “I love you.”

“Hondurasgate” exposes living legacy of Operation Condor across the Americas

Fri, 08 May 2026 23:23:14 GMT

The recordings involve discussions about imprisoning or assassinating opponents, and coordinating a continental offensive against the “cancer of the left.”

National strike in Bolivia fueled by gas costs sees growing calls for president to resign

Fri, 08 May 2026 01:18:23 GMT

The decisive question confronting workers and youth is to draw the political lessons from the debacle of the MAS and the role played by the COB and indigenous leaderships in paving the way for the return of the right.

Chavín de Huántar: The Rescue of the Century: A film of reactionary propaganda for Peru’s military

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:10:03 GMT

The social and political issues are deliberately ignored in order to present the rescue operation as a binary struggle between the “heroic” army and a guerrilla force that is the enemy of the entire nation.

Trump administration attacks Costa Rican media to silence opposition to fascistic puppet regime

Thu, 07 May 2026 01:37:07 GMT

Despite the right-wing character of La Nación, the visa revocations are a naked attack by a Hitler-inspired imperialist regime seeking to crush even limited criticism of its puppet government.

New sanctions, threats and military exercises set stage for US assault on Cuba

Tue, 05 May 2026 01:56:53 GMT

Amid escalating sanctions, military exercises, and threats by Donald Trump to take the island “immediately,” Washington is laying the groundwork for a regime-change war against Cuba.

Brazil’s unions isolate São Paulo education strikes

Tue, 05 May 2026 01:55:21 GMT

The struggles of teachers and students in São Paulo are part of a growing movement of the international working class against the austerity policies driven by the capitalist crisis and the effects of the war against Iran.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Mon, 04 May 2026 23:58:04 GMT

Thousands of nurses at long-term care facilities in the province of Ontario have voted to authorize strikes, while workers in Puerto Rico held May Day protests demanding the end of the Wall Street financial dictatorship over the US island colony.

PSTU leader Zé Maria sentenced to two years prison in Brazil for criticizing Israel: a grave attack on democratic rights

Sat, 02 May 2026 01:54:00 GMT

The case is a politically motivated fabrication and an assault on the political conscience of millions of workers and young people in Brazil and around the world.

Venezuela’s interim president paints Trump as defender of “peace” after Washington shooting

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:33:17 GMT

Associating Trump with “peace,” Rodriguez whitewashes the ongoing avalanche of war crimes unleashed by Washington across the globe and directly against Venezuela itself.

Morenoites campaign for Brazilian Army medal for metalworkers union amid escalating global war

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:26:28 GMT

The campaign signals a sharp lurch to the right by the PSTU Morenoites in a conjuncture marked by the escalating global of war and, internally, by dictatorial threats tied to the military.

Amid popular outrage, no official explanation of secret CIA operation in Mexico

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:01:22 GMT

Washington has made clear there will be no explanations, let alone apologies, after two CIA agents died in a road accident in Chihuahua during an operation kept secret from the Mexican government.

Peruvian far-right stages scandal over elections as nominally “left” candidate climbs to second place

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:43:09 GMT

Despite the record of Roberto Sánchez Palomino as a trusted administrator of capitalist interests, the far-right seeks to create a scandal over election mismanagement to block his candidacy.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:10:53 GMT

Peasant, student and worker organizations conducted a week of protests in La Paz, Bolivia, while a strike by thousands of Nova Scotia long-term care workers is growing as more facilities join the action.

El Salvador’s Bukele regime stages mass show trial for nearly 500 alleged gang members

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:34:48 GMT

Trump’s support for Bukele seeks to normalize the authoritarian doctrine that the state may detain or even kill individuals based on suspicion alone, without due process.

Union leaders meet with Lula amid strike wave in Brazil

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:40:20 GMT

Brazil’s union federations are signaling that they will do everything they can to isolate, stifle, and divert the struggles of workers and young people behind Lula’s candidacy in the October election.

US ramps up boat strikes in Latin American waters amid mounting proof that victims are fishermen

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:30:37 GMT

Escalating US military strikes targeting fishermen under the pretext of a “war on drugs” are driven by a broader agenda of imperialist domination.

Porto Alegre Conference: How not to fight fascism

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:42:44 GMT

Far from representing a step forward in the construction of an international movement against fascism and war, the Porto Alegre Conference was a political platform for blocking the development of a revolutionary and independent struggle by the working class.

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:33:20 GMT

Teachers carried out a one-day strike over medical benefits in several major cities across Colombia last week, while 5,500 municipal workers in Montreal struck for three days to protest stalled contract negotiations.