August 17, 2022
Argentinian unions and social movements are marching today towards the National Congress to protest against runaway inflation and ‘speculators’. (more…)
August 17, 2022
Maduro honoring Venezuelan firefighters who had been in Cuba
Today Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed his gratitude to his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, who earlier had announced that his nation will support the reconstruction of the crude oil storage tanks that caught fire after being struck by lightning in the western province of Matanzas. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on August 18, 2022 from Havana
Colombian Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva and Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez
Last week, it became public that the newly formed Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) will re-establish peace talks in the coming weeks. The statement was made by Foreign Affairs Minister Alvaro Leyva in Havana, the city where negotiations were taking place until they stalled. (more…)
By Ana Perdigón on August 16, 2022
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has criticized his Argentinian counterpart, Alberto Fernández, for following orders from the United States and for having the Venezuelan Boeing 747-300 detained in Buenos Aires, along with its crew. (more…)
August 14, 2022
Francia Marquez, photo: Bill Hackwell
The Vice President of Colombia, Francia Márquez, symbolically took office in her homeland, in the department of Cauca, where she announced that this week the creation of the Ministry of Equality, which she herself will lead, will be filed in Congress. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 16, 2022 from Havana
AMLO and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel
This 2022, Cuba and Mexico celebrated 120 years of uninterrupted diplomatic relations, marked by the historical ties of brotherhood and solidarity that unite both nations. Since ancient times, the two countries have maintained true sisterly relations due to their geographic proximity, migration, language, music, sports, culture and idiosyncrasy. (more…)
August 11, 2022
Reading the letter at the Law School in the University of Brasília. Photo: Janelson Ferreira/MST
On Thursday August 11, tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in defense of free elections and against political violence and to launch the “Letter to Brazilians in defense of the Democratic State of Law”. The actions organized by the “Out Bolsonaro” campaign, a coalition of diverse people’s movements, trade unions, and civil society organizations, have estimated that actions were organized in at least 49 cities, (more…)
By David Brooks on August 15, 2022
photo: Evo Morales
The White House’s Western Hemisphere envoy told a forum in Cartagena last week that “40 years ago the United States would have done everything possible to prevent the election of Gustavo Petro,” and once someone like him was in power, “it would have done almost everything possible to sabotage his government. But those were Cold War policies, he argued, and today for the U.S. government, “ideology no longer matters”… but only if a government is “democratically elected and governs democratically”. (more…)