By Alejandra Garcia on February 15, 2023
Colombians in the street in support of new healthcare bill
Colombian President Gustavo Petro does not seem to have forgotten his campaign promises. On Monday, after months of discussing an important health care reform, Health Minister Carolina Corcho and the Colombian leader presented a bill during a symbolic ceremony in the Plaza de Armas of the Casa de Nariño. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on February 14, 2023
Not one murder more! Dina resign now!
It has been just two months since Dina Boluarte took over Peru’s presidency after a coup d’état very well designed by the conservative elite and executed by the Congress and the military. Since then, 64 people have been killed during social protests across the country. (more…)
By Gabriel Vera Lopes on February 12, 2023
A review of the main milestones in U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba, two years into the Biden administration.
January 20 marked two years since the administration of Democrat Joe Biden arrived at the White House. Led by one of its most conservative wings, the Democratic Party returned to executive power with the promise and illusion of reversing the corrosive Trump era (more…)
By Marcelo Di Bari on February 13, 2023
No to the IMF
There is a mountain of debt that at the end of December was valued at $ 23.2 trillion, of which more than 60% will mature during the current year has unleashed the strongest economic clash between the government and the opposition in recent times. The trigger was the communiqué issued by the Argenitine national board of Juntos por el Cambio, (JXC) that pointed out the “abusive use of instruments in pesos adjusted in dollars with rates impossible to pay”. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 12, 2023
photo: cuba presidencia
Cuba and Mexico continued to strengthen their ties of brotherhood Saturday, as the president of the Caribbean island, Miguel Díaz-Canel, received from the hands of his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration awarded to a foreign head of state. The act, which took place during the visit of the Cuban leader to the State of Campeche, represents a new seal to a close bilateral relationship that goes beyond the symbolic. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 11, 2023
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin
The new banality of evil is tourism, capable of turning a Nazi concentration camp, where 200,000 people were interned between 1936 and 1945, into an object of consumption. In Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, more than 30,000 died from disease, starvation, medical experiments, torture or the gas chamber. (more…)
By Víctor Villalba on February 11, 2023
photo: Víctor Villalba
The Minister of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba, José Ángel Portal Miranda, bade farewell last night at the Havana airport to the Medical Brigade made up of members of the International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics “Henry Reeve”. (more…)
By Marcos Roitman Rosenmann on February 8, 2023
The fear of disappearing as a hegemonic power awakens the survival instinct. The United States (US) has entered a dangerous drift, the end of which puts the future of humanity at risk. If a nuclear holocaust is on the horizon, it is no coincidence. The cultural reason of the West is facing its worst nightmare: being trapped in a war where it cannot see the way out. (more…)