April 9, 2023
Palestine in the Plaza of the Revolution. photo: Bill Hackwell
By Fidel Castro on August 4, 2014, written like it was yesterday
I think that a new and repugnant form of fascism is emerging with remarkable force at this moment in human history, when more than seven billion inhabitants are striving for their own survival. (more…)
Jim Cason and David Brooks on April 10, 2023
IMF – WB to meet from April 10-16 in Washington, DC photo: AFP
Washington and New York. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) will begin their semi-annual meetings in Washington today surrounded by criticism from almost all quarters, from developing nations, international leaders and even some of their most powerful member countries for their slowness in reforming their policies and practices to effectively address climate change and the failure of their development strategies. (more…)
April 9, 2023
Photo: Jesús Vargas/AVN
More than 40 social organizations and political parties of Venezuela announced the creation of the Platform of Solidarity with the Palestinian Cause, an initiative to promote solidarity with the people of Palestine. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 10, 2023
Maria Luisa Duarte, photo: Wikicommons
On April 30, Paraguay will go to the polls to elect the country’s new president in a process marked by a lack of debate and the absence of urgent proposals such as free access to education, more rights for Indigenous people, and the right to their land for example. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 9, 2023 from Havana
Rescuer at the Antonio Guiteras CTE Photo: Raúl Navarro González
The eyes and thoughts of Cuba have been on Matanzas since April 7, when a chimney tower of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric power plant partially collapsed, leaving four people trapped in the rubble. Two of them did not make it out alive. (more…)
April 6, 2023
Gabriel Boric
Chile’s neoliberal government of President Gabriel Boric is close to securing a new law that expands the right of security forces to use firearms against the population. The Naín-Retamal Law, a proposal of the executive branch, was today approved by the Senate for a third and final reading. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on April 7, 2023
Luis Almagro, photo: El Tiempo
Like the movie “Around the World in 80 Days” the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro tried to compete with that film and for two years spent honeymoons in about 30 countries with a dear whose expenses were mostly paid by the organization. (more…)
By Juan José Olivares on April 7, 2023 from Mexico City
La Colmenita performs at the UN in 2011, photos: Bill Hackwell
“Children should meet once a week to see who they can do some good for.” This phrase of Cuba’s José Martí is recalled to La Jornada by Carlos Alberto Tin Cremata, director and dynamic founder of La Colmenita, Cuba’s national children theater company; (more…)