By Caroline Oliveira on April 1, 2024
Military personnel during a student protest against the military dictatorship – Arquivo Nacional/Ministério da Gestão e Inovação Social
The Brazilian transition from the civil-military dictatorship to the New Republic in the 1990s could have been a period to revise the authoritarianism embedded in the country’s society since its formation. However, the authoritarian traits – boosted during the dictatorship – are legacies Brazil has to this day. (more…)
By William LeoGrande on April 2, 2024
The US has a history of harboring anti Cuba terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles. photo: Bill Hackwell
Trying to make sense of U.S. policy toward Cuba is like trying to make sense of a play in the theater of the absurd. The rationales offered by the policy’s defenders make no sense, and when they try to explain, they sound like characters in an Ionesco play. Recent legislative proposals from Cuban American members of the House of Representatives are prime examples. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 1, 2024
photo: Abel Padron Padilla
Artificial intelligence is neither intelligent nor artificial. The booming technology of machine learning produces forms of knowledge unheard of in human history, but it is not based on artifice or on the intelligence of robots, but on the work of specific human beings: artists, musicians, programmers, writers, designers, audiovisual producers…, whose creative and professional work is appropriated by a handful of companies. (more…)
April 1, 2024
Dina Boluarte
“Since December 7, 2022, date on which she usurps the office of the Presidency of the Republic, Peru Libre does not recognize Dina Boluarte as a legitimate or legal president,” the party said. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 31, 2024 from Havana
photo: Jose Manual Correa
This Saturday, Cuba remembered the Palestinian Land Day and rejected in a heartfelt way the hatred and desire for extermination poured on the Gaza Strip. During this day of solidarity with the victims of Israel’s war that seems to have no end in sight, a group of Cuban visual artists came together to create a mural for all to see, at Paseo Avenue and 21st Street, in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana. (more…)
By Laura V. Mar and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez, Photos: Yaimi Ravelo
Havana, March 30, 2024 – Artists and cartoonists carried out an urban intervention in the central Paseo Avenue of the Cuban capital, on the occasion of the Palestinian Land Day, that commemorates the first general strike against the theft of part of the Palestinian territory by the Zionist regime. (more…)
By Itzamna Ollantay on March 28, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba, with its nearly 11 million inhabitants, distributed in more than 109,000 km² of territory, surrounded by sea, besieged and economically blockaded by the U.S. State, has a diametrically different fate than its island neighbor Haiti. (more…)
By Marco Teruggi on March 30, 2024
Argentine President Javier Milei, during a business event Photo: Diario Público.
Argentine President Javier Milei’s chainsaw has finally had a full impact on state workers. It has happened on the eve of the long weekend and Easter holiday, with the dismissal of about 11,000 employees of different national institutions located in the capital, Buenos Aires, as well as in their offices in the different provinces of the country. (more…)