By Vijay Prashad on February 8, 2024
On 2 February 2024, the people of Venezuela celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution. On that day in 1999, Hugo Chávez took office as the president of Venezuela and began a process of Latin American integration that – because of US intransigence – accelerated into an anti-imperialist process. (more…)
February 6, 2024
Leonard Peltier has been unjustly imprisoned for 48 years on this day. In this letter, he reflects on the anniversary of his incarceration and calls upon all to “keep fighting”. (more…)
By John Perry on February 6, 2024
Why do United Nations human rights bodies focus on some countries, but not others? Why do organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International appear to ignore important evidence presented to them? And why do the media repeat stories of human rights abuses without questioning their veracity? (more…)
February 5, 2024
Evo Morales and Gustavo Petro
Evo Morales has added his support to the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, in the face of an “attempted judicial coup” and has accused the U.S. of promoting these types of judicial coups in Latin America. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 6, 2024
Bukele’s re election celebration
This Sunday, candidate for re-election Nayib Bukele proclaimed himself president of El Salvador with just 30 percent of the votes counted. “This has been an overwhelming victory, in which we have received more than 85% of the votes,” said the president, 42, amid claims of irregularities, violations of democracy, and problems with the vote count. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti February 5, 2024
Hugo Chávez Frías.
If history is not reduced to a museum, dates and anniversaries remind of the struggle of the oppressed classes, which have built or suffered its courses and resources. If history is not reduced to parody, it celebrates moments and figures who interpreted its meaning by anticipating leaps and ruptures and adds new pages to the book of the future. And new flags are raised. (more…)
By Kim Ives on February 2, 2024
Demonstrators demanding that Ariel Henry step down skirmished with cops on Jan. 30 in Petit Goâve.
Never have revolutionary conditions in Haiti been so favorable. The government of de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry is completely illegitimate, ineffective, and unpopular. The U.S. empire is preoccupied and overextended in contending with crises in Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, and Yemen. (more…)
By José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on February 5, 2024
The current attack against the Spanish based Cubainformacion news service is spreading widely in certain independent media circles but it is practically invisible in the big cartelized media. Cubainformación is an essential international news service that focuses on the defense of the political and social project of the Cuban Revolution, (more…)