NGOs and rights groups have strongly opposed the involvement of private military personnel in Haiti.
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Aside from the weight of US policy, the Cuban state has become increasingly sclerotic and unable to meet the growing demands of its population.
US military buildup in the Caribbean has prompted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to reciprocate with military drills.
Jamaicans have re-elected Andrew Holness for a third consecutive term.
An expert in international law explains that the Trump administration’s justification for deadly strike doesn’t hold water.
Guyana re-elects Irfaan Ali in election dominated by country’s oil reserves.
A decade of fieldwork is revealing how one of biology’s fundamental principles works in real time.
Incoming Trump administration is set to adopt a more hawkish stance on Cuba-US relations – but a more targeted sanctions approach may pressure Havana without hurting the island’s impoverished people.
Trump reversed the Cuba ‘thaw’ initiated by President Barack Obama. But second-guessing the incoming president’s policy on the island isn’t straightforward.
Blackouts on the Caribbean island are shining a light on a crumbling economy that the nation’s communist leaders may struggle to emerge from.
Recent protests in the French overseas territories of Martinique and Guadeloupe are ostensibly over cost-of-living increases. But the roots of inequality go much deeper.
The islands’ vulnerability has roots deep in the exploitative systems forced on them by colonialism, from slave-based land policies to ill-suited development that put lives in harm’s way.
Presidential candidate’s potential ties to an Irish slave owner complicate narratives around colonial legacies and the proper place of Black Irish identity in history.
The countries most responsible for climate-driven extreme weather must do more to help.
Cuban has yo-yoed on and off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. Is the Biden administration changing that?
Hardening electric transmission systems and monitoring ocean temperatures are two key priorities.
A leading driver of this seaweed invasion is pollution, carried down rivers and into the Atlantic Ocean from the continents.
Not all reparations involve money. Returning unique scientific resources is also a way of showing respect and righting past harms.
There is a long, and often ugly, history of foreign intervention in Haiti.
Kenya’s William Ruto will meet President Joe Biden during a rare US state visit from an African leader − and one that comes as Haiti’s crisis spirals.
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