Caribbean

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: To The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, Pedro Mir, 1962
03 Jun 2026
Oh, carrier Intrepid/you in these torrid waters of Santo Domingo/only out of fear.
Erica Caines
The Persecution of Kaia Sealy and the Manufactured Crisis in Trinidad and Tobago
03 Jun 2026
Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister says she backs Trump's conservatism and capitalism, and the criminal case against a hairdresser paralyzed in a police shooting shows exactly what that partnership…
Tamanisha J. John
Annexationist Chauvinism: There is No Justification for the Venezuela-Guyana Essequibo Border Dispute
20 May 2026
The Essequibo dispute benefits Exxon Mobil and the Pentagon while crushing anti-imperialist solidarity.
Reynoldson Mompoint
Outsourced: Chad as the armed wing of a low-visibility American strategy
13 May 2026
The Chadian troops arriving in Haiti are the visible arm of imperialist intervention in which the United States projects force without putting its own boots on the ground.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: Pedro Pérez Sarduy to Carlos Moore, 1990
06 May 2026
“I felt proud to be black in a country in revolution with a leader of Iberian ancestry who had launched Operation Carlota, in one of the hardest terrains on the African continent…”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Is the US Anti-Caribbean? How to overcome it then, Tim Hector, 1997
08 Apr 2026
“...it is like a knee-jerk reaction in the U.S – this consistent, insistent and persistent anti-Caribbean policy in the U.S. from 1776 to the present.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zophia Edwards’ Book, “Fueling Development”
01 Apr 2026
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Zophia Edwards. Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins…
Junior “Spirit” Cottle
The US Military Blockade – Its Potential Impact on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
25 Mar 2026
St. Vincent legalized medicinal cannabis in 2018, but the industry cannot take off while US warships enforce a blockade. A nation cannot build a legal economy under military threat.
Josué Veloz Serrade
Cuba at the Crossroads of a Bogus Multilateralism
25 Mar 2026
“Cuba en la encrucijada de un multilateralismo hipócrita,” by Josué Veloz Serrade, appeared on La Tizza on 17 March 2026.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Cuba, Venezuela and Regime Change
18 Mar 2026
Regime change is possible but not inevitable. Forces claiming to be leftist and claiming to be revolutionary must actually live up to the true meaning of those words.