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…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 11, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
Contrary to the inertia of the news that tells of Cubans leaving, they have not left their family homes or their land; they resisted the promise of no more queues or blackouts and the exodus to any other shore of the Atlantic. (more…)
By Alberto C. Medina on April 10, 2024
The ongoing violence in Palestine has been a sobering reminder that colonialism is not, as some have claimed, merely a “trendy academic theory.” It is a political condition still endured by millions around the world. That includes the 3.2 million people of Puerto Rico who are both citizens—and colonial subjects—of the United States. (more…)
By José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on April 8, 2024
the arrest of former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, photo: AFP
On the night of Friday, April 5, the Ecuadorian police forcibly broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito. Special detachments with heavy weapons and armored vehicles participated in the operation, where former Vice President Jorge Glas was arrested, Mexican diplomatic personnel were mistreated and international legality, particularly the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, was completely violated. (more…)
By Qamar Taleb on April 9, 2024
Illustration by Mahdi Rtail for Al Mayadeen
As there is a growing trend among the Left to sway away from openly supporting Resistance groups, leftists need to pause and ask themselves what the figures they cherish would do. (more…)
April 6, 2024
Argentinian President Javier Milei poses with US Southern Command chief General Laura Richardson in Ushuaia, Argentina, April 4, 2024. Photo: El País.
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, announced that the United States will construct an “integrated naval base” in Ushuaia, the southernmost city of Argentina, known as “the city at the end of the world.” The city has an extreme geopolitical importance, as it is located where the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans meet, in addition to being the “point of entry” to the continent of Antarctica. (more…)
By Luis Alberto Portuondo on April 7,2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
On April 7, 1930, the heroine of daily battles for the homeland and its women was born in Santiago de Cuba. The consecration of “all her life to fight for women” which, in short, is the same as thinking and building a fairer country, summarizes what Vilma Espín Guillois was. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on April 7, 2024
Ecuadorian police unit prepare to assault the Mexican Embassy in Quito
This Friday, the world witnessed a historic event in Latin America. Ecuadorian police officers stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito in search of Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador during the administration of Rafael Correa (2007-2017). Hours before this violation of international law was committed, (more…)