Canals… and not Those of Venice

By Roger Ricardo Luis on April 15, 2024

Panama Canal

The control of maritime routes since time immemorial is a matter of exercising power of the highest priority, for as the saying sums up: “…he who dominates the sea, dominates the land”. (more…)

Milei Celebrates Violent Repression of Thousands Protesting Hunger in Argentina

April 11, 2024

Police attacked the protest organized by UTEP in Buenos Aires. Photo: UTEP

Yesterday the Federal Police and the Police of the city of Buenos Aires violently evicted and repressed a peaceful demonstration on 9 de Julio Avenue in the center of the capital. (more…)

War and Global Terrorism: the Ukrainian Labyrinth

By Carlos González Penalva on April 11, 2024

Crocus City Hall after the terrorist attack last March 22, Photo: RT.

In an unexpected turn of events, the recent massacre at Moscow’s Crocus Concert Hall has unleashed a wave of speculation and propaganda in the media, and one that is impossible to dissociate from the global war context and, in particular, the U.S.-NATO operation in Ukraine. (more…)

Immigration in the US is Big Business

By Mirko C. Trudeau on April 13, 2024

The foreign-born immigrant population in the United States grew by more than 15 percent in the last 12 years, and it is the labor force of these 32.5 million workers, generally overworked Latin Americans, that is one of the main causes behind strong U.S. economic growth. (more…)

Cuba: Five Years since the Vile and Absurd Kidnapping of Assel and Landy

Statement by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 12, 2024

Cuban doctors Assel Herrera Correa and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, 

Five years have elapsed since the April 12, 2019 kidnapping in Kenya of Doctors Assel Herrera Correa and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, Cuban doctors who were serving in that country as part of an intergovernmental cooperation agreement in which they were voluntarily participating. (more…)

Venezuela: Coup d’Etat of the Surnames

By William Gomez Garcia on April 11, 2024

the 2002 coup in Venezuela failed because of the people. photo: Bill Hackwell

Today we are facing a new date of April 11, 12, 13 and 14 that reminds us of April 2002, where it seems that no one learned from that lesson. Despite the fact that 22 years have passed since the coup d’état when the opposition, led by Pedro Carmona Estanga, briefly removed Commander Hugo Chávez from the government. (more…)

Beyond Differences: Maduro and Petro Consolidate Cooperation

April 11, 2024

Maduro and Petro advancing relations.

Maduro and Petro advancing relations

The fifth meeting in Caracas between the presidents of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, reflects the rapprochement and strengthening of diplomatic relations between the two countries as a shared project. In this frank and constructive dialogue, the interest in maintaining an open channel of communication to jointly address the challenges and opportunities that arise at the binational, regional and international levels was evident. (more…)

Brazil Warns of Neo-Fascism Upsurge and Holds Elon Musk Responsible

By Alejandra Garcia on April 10,2024

Elon Musk, photo Angelo Carconi, EFE

Brazil’s President Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva on Wednesday warned about a reality that is no longer a secret: neoliberalism is aggravating the inequality that plagues democracies and among the rubble extreme right-wing adventurers are arising who deny politics. Brazil is no stranger to this phenomenon, encouraged especially during the government of the nefarious Jair Bolsonaro, and it is “urgent to break the dissonance between the voice of the markets and the voice of the streets”. (more…)

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