By Luciana Bertoia on August 20, 2024
Estela de Carlotto demands the expulsion of the six deputies who went to take pictures with those who committed genocide. photo: Guadalupe Lombardo
The President of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto repudiates the government’s decision to eliminate the investigation unit that operated within the Conadi, and says the search for the grandchildren will not stop, and she also affirm that the deputies who went to be photographed with the repressors in prison should be thrown out of Congress. (more…)
August 20, 2024
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today once again reiterated his denunciation of the genocide committed by the Zionist government of Israel against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. (more…)
August 17, 2024.
In the continuity of the one that took place last April, the Venezuelan government confirmed that next Sunday the process of popular community elections will take place, in which the priority projects for each community will be prioritized. (more…)
By David Bacon on August 19, 2024
August 7, 2024, San Francisco CA. – Migrant farmworkers, domestic workers and their supporters march and rally at the Federal Building to call for passage of the Registry Bill, which would allow undocumented people to gain legal immigration status. The march was organized by the Northern California Coalition for Just Immigration Reform. It was the third day of a three day march from Petaluma to San Francisco. Photo: David Bacon
On August 17, a group of committed migrant activists set forth on a three-day march from Silicon Valley to San Francisco, highlighting the choices for progressive candidates in the coming November election. Should their campaigns amplify the hysteria about an immigration “crisis,” or should they speak the truth to the American people about the border and the roots of migration? (more…)
August 18, 2024
photo: Cuba Minrex
The impact of the asphyxiating economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba, and suffered by the Cuban people for more than six decades, was the main denunciation of the member of the Political Bureau of the Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the Third Summit of the Voice of the Global South. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez on August 17, 2024 from Havana
The World Solidarity Day in support of the people of Venezuela for the electoral victory of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, is an act of resistance of the peoples of the world against imperialism. Raising our voices this Saturday from different regions of the world together with the brave people of Venezuela also means fighting for global peace in the fascist-Zionist escalation sponsored by the U.S. government and its allies. (more…)
By Alberto Garzon Espinosa on August 17, 2024
Greece, struggles to control dozens of fires across the country this August. photo: EFE/EPA/Yannis Kolesidis
We should not fool ourselves: there is a lot of social Darwinism here, that is, a way of understanding the world in which there are people who, if they were left over, nothing would happen.
The summer of 2023 left a tragic mark on Europe: almost 50,000 lives lost due to high temperatures, with Spain mourning 8,352 deaths, mostly women. These alarming figures, revealed by a study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, barely caused a stir in the media and social networks. Meanwhile, a frivolous conversation between two eccentric tycoons, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, grabbed public attention. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on August 17, 2024
The suggestion of a co-government with the U.S.-backed, coup-plotting far right is a disregard for Venezuelan rule of law. (more…)