April 22, 2016
The approval by Brazil House of Representatives of the request for trial of President Dilma Rousseff, bursts as a dangerous threat to the political stability of the continent, within the anti democratic wave in Our America. (more…)
By Andres Gomez on April 11, 2016
I have lived in Miami since November 29, 1960, and now I’m 68 years old. I was 13 when I arrived with my family, much like almost 130,000 Cubans who left their country in that year as a result of the radical changes made by the Cuban revolutionary process (more…)
April 10, 2106
Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) destroyed 523 Palestinian homes and civilian structures in the West Bank since the start of 2016, with an increase of 275% from last year, a Palestinian center reported Sunday. (more…)
April 14, 2016
Palestinian prisoner Shukri Khawaja, who has been held in solitary confinement for the past sixteen months, continued his hunger strike against isolation. 55 Palestinian prisoners have also continued hunger strikes in solidarity with Khawaja, demanding an end to long-term solitary confinement, (more…)
Friends decline my invitations and I have taken to sleeping outside under the trees, to avoid becoming a magnet of death for my family
Malik Jalal on Tuesday 12 April 2016
There have been 255 drone strikes on Pakistan since 2004
I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive. (more…)
April 15, 2016 by Hector Luis Alamo
“I suck the blood of your economy, drain your natural resources, make you a beggar poorer in thanks—make you defenseless, powerless, homeless, useless, speechless, foreign, more foreign, so foreign that you’ll lose touch with families and familiarities so that you’ll lose control of reality so that you’ll start hallucinating, (more…)
Message to the Bolivarian People
The participants in the 12th gathering of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social movements “In Defense of Humanity” have come to Caracas, at a crucial moment, to show our unconditional solidarity with the Government and the Bolivarian people in the battle they are waging against the onslaught of the local oligarchy and the Empire. (more…)
By Sam Loewenber on March 14, 2016
Nearly a hundred Americans are studying medicine at Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), where they are taught preventive medicine to treat the underserved.
The Salvador Allende hospital is an oasis of green in Cerro, a run-down neighborhood of Havana, far from the oceanfront hotels and tourist restaurants of Cuba’s capital. Originally built in 1899 to provide care to Spanish colonists, the hospital campus is smattered with colonnaded buildings set amidst well-tended parks. (more…)