Cuba's Secretary of the Communist Party in Havana Lazara Mercedes Lopez (L), Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel (2-L), the first Secretary of the Communist Party and former President Raul Castro (2-R),and pre12-yearof the Communist Party of Chile Guillermo Teillier watch the May Day rally in Havana, Cuba. Photo: Reuters | Photo: Reuters
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From Mexico to Brazil and Cuba, today's May Day was a mix of celebrating workers to protesting right-wing governments.
Nearly a million Cubans across the island took part in May Day celebrations to honor workers. In La Havana marchers celebrated former presidents Fidel and Raul Castro, and their newly elected head of state, Miguel Diaz-Canel. Photo: Reuters
Cuba's Secretary of the Communist Party in Havana Lazara Mercedes Lopez (L), Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel (2-L), the first Secretary of the Communist Party and former President Raul Castro (2-R),and pre12-yearof the Communist Party of Chile Guillermo Teillier watch the May Day rally in Havana, Cuba. Photo: Reuters
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Marchers in today’s Cuban May Day hold pictures that commemorate deceased and former president Fidel Castro (1926-2016). Recently elected president Miguel Diaz-Canel and the national cabinet had its first meeting last week to discuss the island’s economy and foreign relations. Photo: Reuters
Several unions and social movements marched through the streets of Santiago, Chile in today’s May Day march. Many are demanding the rewriting of the country’s constitution to conserve the advances of the previous administration under Michelle Bachelet who was recently replaced with right-wing, neoliberal president Sebastián Piñera. Photo: Reuters
May Day marches turned violent today in Chile as protesters were arrested by riot police. The Piñera administration began cracking down on peaceful student protesters recently who were demanding that university be free, a measure that was set down by Bachelet just before she left office in March. Photo: Reuters
Massive protests took place today in Curitiba, Brazil today where the presidential candidate and former head of state, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is being held on charges of supposedly accepting bribes in the national Car Wash scandal. He has been held in a Curitiba prison since April 7 when the Free Lula campaign began outside the jail demanding his release. Lula and his lawyers have tried to appeal his 12-year prison sentence several times and each time he has been declared guilty. Photo: EFE
Demonstrators demanding the release of candidate Lula in Curitiba, Brazil. Lula has been held for nearly a month but still has legal appeals left against his 12-year sentence. He told supporters today via a written letter to "keep resisting ... for democracy." Photo: EFE
Each year massive May Day marches take place in Buenos Aires and this year was no different. Demonstrators turned out to protest against the Mauricio Macri administration's drastic austerity measures implemented over the past two years. Unions and social movements took to the streets today, as they have over the past year, to protest against the government's economic measures, such as slashes energy subsidies. In two years energy prices have risen, on average by 1,000 percent and inflation hovers at 25 percent.
A young drummer celebrates May Day in Buenos Aires and protests against the drastic reduction of state services under the Macri administration. Photo: Reuters
Thousands turned out in Mexico City today to demand better labor conditions and jobs on May Day. Photo: EFE
A May Day marcher in Mexico City today, May 1, 2018. The country is gearing up for a presidential election in July. Current president Enrique Peña Nieto's popularity rate has sunk to 12 percent during his administration that has been marked by corruption, and some of the highest homicide rates the country has seen in 20 years. Photo: EFE
A May Day protest against austerity measures in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, turned violent as police hurled tear gas sending protesters running in the capital of San Juan. The Trump administration did scant to help its U.S. citizens on the island country to recuperate from last year's major storm that landed as its government was already in the midst of a debt crisis. Thousands took to the streets to protest the government budget cuts, including proposed pension cuts, hurricane recovery efforts, and school funding. Photo: Reuters
Riot police in San Juan who sent people running by throwing tear gas into May Day protests. Photo: Reuters
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks to a massive crowd of supporters during the Caracas celebration of May Day today. Just yesterday Maduro announced an overall 95 percent salary increase to mark this international commemoration. Maduro told the press yesterday, "It is a brutal economic war that we are going to contain and we will move forward," referring to the heavy international economic embargo the country faces with the intention to topple the Bolivarian Revolution now led by Maduro who looks set to win the country's upcoming presidential elections.
Venezuelan supporters of former president Hugo Chavez hold a picture of the deceased head of state during May Day celebrations in Caracas. Photo: Reuters.
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