End-of-the Year CUSLAR Fundraiser 2025

We are writing to request your support during this critical period of transition in U.S-Latin American relations. The U.S escalation of  military actions across the region—from the rapid expansion of U.S. military presence in Puerto Rico, to engaging in unprovoked and unsanctioned bombings that resulted in the murder of 80 people off the coast of Venezuela and Colombia in violation of the Wars Power Act. 

The military build up is taking place with little mention in the media, and the only legislative action to date focuses on maintaining the most minimal protections. The Trump administration claims these lethal attacks on civilian vessels are justified under a "non-international armed conflict" with narco-terrorist organizations, however these operations actually represent extrajudicial executions that violate international human rights law, conducted without congressional authorization. 

These actions are far from unprecedented, since they represent long-standing imperialist and interventionist actions in Latin America and the Caribbean that CUSLAR has challenged  throughout our 60 year history.  

Today, CUSLAR is at a turning point. We are proud of our ongoing student organizing, thrilled to introduce our new coordinator, and excited to celebrate our 60th anniversary.  At the same time, we must raise $10,000 by December 31, 2025, to cover our operating expenses. As such, we are calling on Cuslareñes to offer financial support to ensure CUSLAR can continue its mission of promoting peace, justice, and mutual understanding between the people of the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean through education and solidarity.  

Your donation will support the continued engagement of  CU and IC  students, faculty, community members and former CUSLAR members in fulfilling this mission through political analysis, advocacy and education. 

Your generosity also makes possible the continuation of activist-led, political education events that can cut through the media fog and help us understand how we can best support grassroots efforts on the ground. Finally, your support will help ensure the vitality of our Cuslareño community, as we strive to engage former members to promote intergenerational gatherings and collaborations to devise actionable steps against interventionist policies in Latin America. 

Given the urgency of this moment, both for U.S/ Latin American relations, and our own organization, we are inviting you to make a tax-deductible donation. Your End-of-Year donation will help us curate a series of well informed, thought provoking discussion groups to share information and expert political analysis with the larger goal of promoting actions to challenge U.S. interventionist policies and practices that jeopardize the sovereignty and well being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Your contribution will thus ensure the continuity of CUSLAR while simultaneously bringing together the expertise of 6 decades of knowledge among our CUSLAR community. Please help us entrust the knowledge and social justice saber CUSLAR has cultivated to future generations. 

You can donate here: https://www.every.org/cuslar-cta

Or via the Center for Transformative Action website here:  https://www.centerfortransformativeaction.org/projects 

Or by check addressed to “Center for Transformative Action” with CUSLAR in the memo line and mailed to:

CUSLAR

548 College Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850 

Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

All donations are tax deductible.