An interview with Rogelio Polanco, Head of the Ideological Department of the Cuban Communist Party
By Katrien Demuynck on February 7, 2013
Cuban Youth, photo: Anabel Díaz, Granma
KD : The challenge with the youth is great. There is a group of young people who are emigrating, does that mean that they no longer see prospects in their own country and think they will be better off elsewhere? (more…)
An interview with Rogelio Polanco, Head of the Ideological Department of the Communist Party of Cuba
By Katrien Demuynck on February 6, 2023
70% of Cubans were born under the blockade
Cuba is currently going through an extremely difficult time. How does this island manage to hold its ground in spite of everything? What are the challenges it faces and how are they being addressed? We put these questions to Rogelio Polanco. (more…)
By Jimmy Zuniga Wallace and Ben Norton on February 7, 2023
Thelma Cabrera and Jordán Rodas of Guatemala’s Movement for the Liberation of the People (MLP)
Guatemala’s notoriously corrupt right-wing government has blocked a prominent leftist Indigenous leader from running in the June 2023 presidential election, in a move that international observers have condemned as an “electoral coup”. (more…)
February 8, 2023
Venezuelan rescue brigade preparing to go to Syria and Turkey
On Monday, February 6, after the devastation and material damage in Syria caused by a massive 7.8 earthquake, Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Relations Yván Gil met with the Syrian Ambassador in Caracas, Kenan Zaher Al Deen, to coordinate support that the Venezuelan government will provide Syria. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on February 7, 2023
former Ecuador Pres. Rafael Correa and supporters celebrate in Mexico the defeat of Lasso and CREO in regional elections.
Last Sunday, regional elections were held in Ecuador. Thirteen million people were called to elect 5,700 (governors, mayors, counselors, and parish board members) and the seven Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (Citizen Council or CPCCS)’s counselors and their substitutes. In addition, the executive led by Guillermo Lasso submitted eight Constitutional Referendum questions, which were grouped into three topics: security, environment, and the country’s political work. (more…)
By Atilio Borón on February 6, 2023
Reading Mike Pompeo’s memoir – Never Give an Inch – the former CIA Director and Secretary of State in the Trump Administration, I couldn’t help but draw a comparison with the figure and personality traits of another celebrated Italian-American: Al Capone. And not only because of a certain physical resemblance and the common Italian ancestry of both. (more…)
Article and Photographs by David Bacon February 6, 2023
From Diego Rivera’s Paintings to the Fields of California
Lompoc, Calif., 2022-A worker carries a bunch of stock flowers on his shoulder from the field after harvesting them. photo: David Bacon
Along West Ocean Avenue in the summer of 2022, where Lompoc, California’s flower fields meet the edge of town, workers from Oaxaca and Guerrero were harvesting stock flowers. Even far from the rows where they labored, breezes carried the overpowering, almost sickly-sweet fragrance from thousands of blooms. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 5, 2023, from Havana
31st Int. book fair to open in Havana Feb. 9
Cuba and Colombia are once again forging closer ties of brotherhood after the nefarious years of the right-wing Ivan Duque. This week, it was news that the island will dedicate its emblematic Havana International Book Fair to the South American nation as a sign of peace and respect. (more…)