By Frei Betto on March 31, 2023.
Today, the coup that implemented 21 years of military dictatorship in Brazil will be 59 years old. It actually took place on April 1st. But since April Fool’s Day is celebrated on that date, the military moved the commemoration back to March 31. (more…)
By Ben Norton on April 6, 2023
The global de-dollarization campaign is gaining momentum, as countries around the world seek alternatives to the hegemony of the US dollar. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on April 5, 2023
photo: IANS
Donald Trump appeared in Lower Manhattan Criminal Court to face charges, allegedly more than thirty, for having bought the silence of porn film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump paid $130,000 for her not to reveal that, years earlier, she had had a sexual encounter with the tycoon. It is striking that with many other charges against the former president, including his responsibility for the very serious riots of January 6, 2021 (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on April 4, 2023
photo: Abel Padrón Padilla
Cuba’s victories are piling up. There were many people who were full of praise for the victory of the U.S. baseball team in Miami, without expecting that this “defeat” for the Cuban team, and I am putting it in quotation marks on purpose, was the best thing that could happen for everyone in the face of public opinion and the international panorama. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 4, 2023
Today Cuba won an important legal victory against a vulture fund that sought to take advantage of the Caribbean island. The High Court of England and Wales of London ruled that the vulture fund CRF I is not a creditor of the Cuban State, (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on April 4, 2023
Today in a press conference in Washington DC the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) along with key allies launched a popular collective campaign to promote the urgent need to establish a Zone of Peace in Our Americas. The press conference coincided with similar events that took place in Havana, Cuba; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (more…)
By Calla Walsh on April 2, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The only criteria to be invited to Biden’s so-called Summit for Democracy last week was to be a lapdog of US imperialism, not to be a real democracy. Instead of uplifting true people’s democracies which have dynamic, mass participation — such as those in Cuba and China — Biden’s summit promoted the overthrow of these governments. (more…)
By José Manzaneda on April 3, 2023
Police attacking demonstrators in France. photo: EPA
300 demonstrations with more than three million people, 500 people arrested in a single day. If it were Cuba, Belarus or China… the headlines would be filled with terms such as “social outburst”, “popular uprising”, “repression”, “regime”…. (more…)