Carribean and South American Affairs

On June 12, 2008 the United States Supreme Court decided the case Boumedienne et al. v. Bush, President of the United States, et al. which had been brought against the Bush administration by individuals captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere in its "War on Terror."  These individuals were classified under American law as "enemy combatants" - not prisoners of war whose rights were protected under the internationally recognized Geneva Convention - and had been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.  read more »

It is with great admiration, pride and respect that I pen this belated homage to Aimé Césaire, a son of Martinique and a child of Africa.

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The Yahoo! Headlines that invade my consciousness every time I log off my email account are often annoying. The patronizing reports about Asia, pessimistic ones about Africa and gooey ones about US - from Hollywood fashion to the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are, frankly speaking, often irrelevant and an assault on my soul and sanity. But occasionally I get to see an amusing headline.  read more »

I came to Boscobel Beach on vacation but what did I get?  read more »

Jacques Depelchin reflects on the growing economic, political and cultural relationship between Brazil and the Africa and urges for a solidarity from below that is cognizant of black revolutionary history.  read more »

"He had faults, like other men; but it was for his virtues that he was hated and successfully calumniated."--Bertrand Russell, on the American revolutionary Thomas Paine.  read more »

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Venezuela's democratically elected Present Chavez faces the most serious threat since the April 11, 2002 military coup, writes James Petras.

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African Americans sometimes embarrass themselves, often without know it, by assuming that others from the Diaspora see the world in the same way as themselves, writes Italo Ramos. Blacks from other nations are also frequently puzzled and confused by U.S. Black behavior, and even the concept of Blackness that prevails in the United States.  read more »

Explorer's reputation is victim of region's pink tide of leftwing governments, report Rory Carroll in Caracas and Lola Almudevar in Sucre  read more »

By: Cary Fraser   read more »

Judith Scherr writes, In the twilight of dawn, U.S.  read more »

Rory Carroll and Lola Almudevar write, When the haggard and broken figure was laid out on the slab and displayed to the world it was not just Che Guevara who had died. The dream of socialist revolution in South America was over.  read more »