By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 17, 2023
supporters and baseball fans cheer on the Cuban team in Williamsport, PA. photo: Cheryl LaBash
Cuban children traveled for the first time to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to participate in the Little League Baseball World Series, which has been held since 1947 and which was hostage, like so many events in the United States, to the rigors of the Cold War. (more…)
By Igor Carvalho on August 14, 2023
João Pedro Stedile
On August 15, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) investigating the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) will receive João Pedro Stedile, founder and national leader of the Movement, who will give a testimony to the federal deputies who are part of the commission. (more…)
By Emir Sader on August 15, 2023
Latin America has lived in the 21st century, the most important period of its history, up to the present. After having been the region of the world with the most and the most radical neoliberal governments, the continent has reacted, to the point of becoming the continent with the most anti-neoliberal governments. (more…)
August 14, 2023
photo: Guillermo Legaria Schweizer
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has shared an analysis on the current situation of the cocaine market structure, warning that this illicit business has moved to Ecuador after its collapse in the US due to the fentanyl boom. (more…)
photo: Bill Hackwell
By Ana Hurtado on August 13, 2023
They were big ships and they were loaded with souls. Each one with a story. Hundreds of feelings were taking shelter inside the Atlantic looking for hope; a better life. If they looked into the distance there was only water. The sea.
The same sea that unites and separates us. The one that brought him to Cuba. The one he made his home. And there Angel took root to life.
There his children were born. And precisely on a day like today, 97 years ago, Fidel was born. (more…)
By Aram Aharonian on August 14, 2023
far right economist Javier Milei,
Argentines never cease to surprise: on a wintry but sunny Sunday, they put the recycled bipartisanship in intensive care in the Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory (PASO) elections, when the ultra-right-wing Javier Milei, until two years ago a TV panelist, became the chosen character to reset the system. The outsider won and all the rest lost. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 13, 2023 from Havana
Fidel Castro Center, photo: Bill Hackwell
On August 13, Cuba honors Fidel. Newspapers, TV, and radio stations feature his enormous life that is synonymous with our freedom . Cuba remembers the birthday of the man who led a Revolution “bigger than ourselves,” who in his 20 years took up arms, along with a small group of other brave men, to change the fate of a country in favor of the most oppressed. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on August 11, 2023
The obelisk in the center of Buenos Aires. photo: Nuevo Diario.
The recent repressions against social movements in the province of Jujuy and in the city of Buenos Aires can be compared to a repetition of the violence, terror and disappearances of men, women and children suffered by Argentines prior to the 1976-1983 civil-military dictatorship. (more…)