By Rafael Bautista S. on December 17, 2022
“I am a Cholo and don’t pity me, those are coins that are worthless
nothing and that the whites give like those who give money.
We Cholos don’t ask for anything,because if we lack everything, everything is enough for us”.
-Luis Abanto Morales (more…)
By Jesús Arboleya on Dec 14, 2022
It is not strange that one or another intellectual endeavor or artistic production provoke violent reactions among extremists of the Cuban-American community in Miami. In that city, works by renowned Cuban painters have been destroyed, books burned in piles, or musical performances canceled due to the threat of terrorist attacks — and from time to time a bulldozer crushes records in the street by an artist disowned for his political positions. (more…)
By Dan Kovalik on December 16, 2022
Mobilization in Caracas, Dec.16, 2022, to Free Alex Saab. Credit: VTV
On December 12 to 13, 2022, an evidentiary hearing in the case of The United States v. Alex Saab was heard before Judge Robert Scola in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The only issue in the hearing was the question of whether Mr. Saab is entitled to diplomatic immunity, a question which, if resolved in his favor, would lead to his release from custody. I had the opportunity to be in the courtroom to witness this hearing, and it was both fascinating and revealing. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on December 15, 2022
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) finishing up its XXII meeting in Havana today, remains one of the most successful integration projects in Latin America. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad and José Carlos Llerena Robles on December 15, 2022
Pedro Castillo
On December 7, 2022, Pedro Castillo sat in his office on what would be the last day of his presidency of Peru. His lawyers went over spreadsheets that showed Castillo would triumph over a motion in Congress to remove him. (more…)
By Ramón Pedregal Casanova on December 15, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
On November 25, 1896, a proclamation was published in Havana by the Capital General Governor of Cuba, and General in Chief of the (Spanish) Army Valeriano Weiler, which ordered: (…) First. A term is set until December 20, all the corn deposited in the farmhouses is to be transferred by its owners to the nearest town that has a detachment or to the immediate railroad station. (more…)
By Joel García on December 14, 2022
Argentine soccer greats Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi
From the first line here I’m going to make it clear that I don’t follow soccer with the same passion as many of my colleagues and friends. Nor am I a Barcelona or Madrid fan. I admire the sport for the art and feelings it raises to such incredible levels. Of the players, I admit I am a fan of Lionel Messi not because he is number one in the world (which he is), but because I am a passionate admirer of Maradona and no one comes closer than Messi to that soccer God. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on December 13, 2022
Peru is experiencing a new episode of its long history of institutional crisis. Today, a new president occupies the seat in the Government Palace, only 16 months after the country elected the leftist teacher Pedro Castillo, and Peruvians are once again suffering uncertainty about the political future of their Andean nation. (more…)