About Us
The Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) is a network of volunteers promoting awareness of the culture and politics of Latin American nations and their relationships with the United States. CUSLAR is the oldest continuously operating Latin American solidarity organization in North America and has an extensive history of outreach and service throughout the country.
We bring speakers to upstate New York to share their experiences in research and action. Through our staff and volunteers, we also organize a Latin American film series, a newsletter, and language classes to the local community. CUSLAR is a resource center for researchers, volunteers, and others who travel between the U.S. and Latin America. Our library has over 1,500 books and dozens of periodicals and videos on or from Latin America, as well as extensive files on international volunteer opportunities and language schools. Visit (link) to see the in depth history and participation of CUSLAR throughout the years.
CUSLAR meetings are open to anyone wondering about events occurring in Latin America, as well as anyone interested in the region's relations with the United States! Our members consist of Cornell University and Ithaca College students, faculty, and staff, as well as community members. We support a coordinator and an office in Anabel Taylor Hall at Cornell University, as a project of the CRESP Center for Transformative Action.
"Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable."
- Aurora Levins Morales