January 4, 2023
photo: cuba standard
The recent sanction by a Florida court against cruise ship companies aims to frighten those who do business with Cuba and reinforces the ban on U.S. citizens visiting the archipelago, Granma newspaper denounced Wednesday. (more…)
By Zoe Alexandra on January 4, 2023
vigil in Ayacucho for the victims of the December 15 massacre. photo: Zoe Alexandra
On December 15, 2022, while helicopters flew overhead, members of Peru’s national army shot down civilians with live bullets in the outskirts of the city of Ayacucho. This action was in response to a national strike and mobilization to protest the coup d’état that deposed President Pedro Castillo on December 7. (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on January 3, 2023
Wannabe President Guaido at the White House
And so it ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. After all, it was made of cardboard.
It is very rare to have a political phenomenon beautifully encapsulated in a single moment or image. But in the case of (former) self-proclaimed “Interim President” Juan Guaidó, we got exactly that. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 5, 2023 from Havana
US embassy in Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
Yesterday the US embassy in Cuba resumed a limited immigrant visa process after nearly six years without consular services. The administration of the nefarious Donald Trump (2017-2021) closed the headquarters and reduced its employees under the pretext of alleged acoustic attacks against its diplomats, a theory almost taken out of a fiction book that was discarded by scientists and official reports. (more…)
By Dario Pignotti on January 4, 2023
Marielle Franco
While Lula participated in Pele’s funeral in the interior of Sao Paulo, his ministers were implementing the main programs of the new government. On Tuesday, the head of Human Rights, the black philosopher Silvio Almeida, took office, promising to revoke all Bolsonaro’s decrees that incite discrimination and hatred. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on January 4, 2023
The massive and emotional inauguration of Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva in Brazil, on the first day of the year, and the announcement in Colombia of the beginning of a ceasefire with five armed organizations in that country is the news that illuminates with hope the beginning of the year in Latin America and the Caribbean. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 3, 2023
Lula inaugurated by ordinary Brazilians. photo: Lela-Beltrao
Inequality, prejudice, racism. These were the words most often used by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to describe the condition he is receiving of his country after four years of the nefarious Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil is in pain. It doesn’t forget the hundreds of thousands of deaths left by the Covid-19 and the mismanagement of the former government, nor the high rates of poverty and violence that skyrocketed since 2019. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on January 1, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The people of Cuba enter 2023 celebrating the 64th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. How can the singular meaning, the seminal nature, the effervescent history of the Cuban Revolution be sufficiently encapsulated? (more…)