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Brazil Gets Ready For Lula´s Return

By Alejandra Garcia on December 27, 2022

Lula campaigning for president

January 1 will be a long-awaited day for Brazil’s progressive movement. On that day, Luis Inácio Lula Da Silva, once and future president, will officially replace the nefarious Latin American Trump, Jair Bolsonaro. With only a few days ahead, the country is already beginning to prepare for this historic day. (more…)

Cuba: Assessing 2022 and the Prospects for 2023

By Gustavo A Maranges and Bill Hackwell on December 27, 2022

Rescuers at the Saratoga Hotel tragedy. photo: Bill Hackwell

This year has been a defining year for Cuba. Let’s say it has been like the litmus test after two years of pandemic and important domestic changes. The economic measures implemented in 2021 designed to improve economic conditions did not reach its expectations in 2022, which remains the main concern of the island’s population. (more…)

Overthrow of President Castillo Exposes the Race and Class Divide in Peru

By Francesca Emanuele on December 22, 2022

photo: Presidency of Peru

Unfulfilled campaign promises, accusations of corruption, and even an attempted self-coup cannot turn the many supporters of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo against him. (more…)

Brazil: Bolsonaro Pardons Military Accused of Prison Massacre

December 24, 2022

Carandiru prison in 1992

Brazil’s Official Gazette published on Friday the decree by which the government of Jair Bolsonaro has pardoned military and police officers involved in the bloodiest massacre in Brazil’s prison history when 111 prisoners were murdered in 1992. (more…)

U.S. Judge Rules Alex Saab not Entitled to Diplomatic Immunity

December 24, 2022

photo: EFE

Robert Scola, a federal judge in Miami (Florida, USA) ruled that the Colombian-Venezuelan businessman Álex Saab, described in most corporate media as a front man for the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, is not entitled to diplomatic immunity, (more…)

Peru: The Coup within the Coup

By Carlos Aznarez on December 22, 2022

The Peruvian usurper “president” Dina Boluarte continues with her plans of prolonged permanence in a government that she assaulted as part of a right-wing plan. (more…)

The Moral Obligation of Hope

By Michel Torres Corona on December 24, 2022

Thousands of Cubans have emigrated in 2022, either in boats that usually capsize or through the very dangerous “Central American route”, which popular humor has metabolized as “tour of the volcanoes”. We all know someone who has left. (more…)

Twitter also Works for the Pentagon

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 22, 2022

The Intercept has provided evidence this Tuesday of the long-standing and incestuous relationship between the social network Twitter and the Pentagon. Not only has the platform helped “amplify certain messages” in countries targeted as enemies by the United States government, but also executives of the blue bird network have granted the US Department of Defense special privileges for covert Internet campaigns for at least five years. (more…)

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