By Alejandra Garcia on October 24, 2024
The leaders of the Global South and East are rising their voices for a common purpose: a multilateral, equitable and fairer world, in which the most vulnerable nations and the developing countries can unite and join forces to achieve a change. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 17, 2024
The massive power cuts in Ecuador continue to cause havoc and threaten to become more serious each time. The country subsists between several parallel crises, but the electricity breakdown is the one that concentrates the discomfort of the citizens and, also, of the government of President Daniel Noboa, a U.S born right-wing neo liberal corporate businessman who is giving away the country’s resources while the people sit in the dark. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 14, 2024 from Havana
Every October 12, the peoples of the Americas remember the first arrival of Christopher Columbus to the New World, in 1942, as a date that marks a milestone in the history of genocide, plunder and exploitation. Far from being a day of celebration, it is a day of struggle, of resistance to oblivion. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 8, 2024 from Havana
“Shoot, coward, you are going to kill a man,” were the last words Ernesto Che Guevara said to his executioner, Mario Teran, on that October 9, 1967, in La Higuera, Bolivia. Those words pronounced in the humble school of the village, with a thatched roof, tormented the Bolivian sergeant for the rest of his life, because of the courage of that man who looked serenely at death. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 1, 2024
On Tuesday, Claudia Sheinbaum went down in Mexican history as the first woman president in 200 years of independence. Before presidents and other high-ranking officials from more than 100 countries and 22 international organizations, she promised to continue the legacy of her political mentor and predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, emphasizing the need to focus on addressing the poverty that affects 40% of Mexico’s 127 million people. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 26, 2024 from Havana
World eyes are on the United Nations headquarters in New York City, as member states debate the most urgent problems of humanity during the 79th session of the General Assembly. Israel’s genocide against Palestine, which is now spreading to Lebanon and threatening the region and other continents, has been the main focus of these days of debate. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 22, 2024 from Havana
In September, and for the fourth consecutive year, U.S. President Joe Biden renewed U.S. sanctions on Cuba under the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA), an archaic 1917 law designed to cut off trade with Germany during World War I and a significant pillar of the blockade. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 15, 2024
The government of Honduran President Xiomara Castro is under siege. “A plot is being hatched against my government,” she warned at the end of the week, after announcing the government’s decision to cancel the extradition treaty with the United States, in force since 1912. (more…)