By Stephen Sefton, November 14, 2022
The electoral victories of Gustavo Petro and Inacio Lula da Silva this year in Colombia and Brazil have raised hopes for a new strong impulse towards the full emancipation of Latin America and the Caribbean. The recent reopening of relations between Colombia and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has reinforced that optimism, along with the likely early abandonment of failed impostor Juan Guaidó by his American owners, (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on November 13, 2022
Cuban television aired this Saturday night the movie Victor Frankenstein, one of the many film and television versions of the novel by British writer Mary Shelley. The story of the man who, by putting together parts of corpses, creates a new being that ends up being a monstrosity rebelling against its creator (more…)
By Cindy Forster on November 14, 2022
compesinos in Santa Cruz are organizing against right wing violence
Most of Bolivia’s Right is murderous, but one of its captains, Luis Fernando Camacho who led the paramilitary aspects of the 2019 coup, is apparently too powerful to arrest, and became governor of the stronghold of the Right in Santa Cruz. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on November 13, 2022 from Havana
The 38th edition of the Havana International Fair (FIHAV) will be inaugurated tomorrow in Cuba after two years of virtual contact due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is Cuba’s most important business exchange, and this year will host over 400 participants from over 60 countries. China, Spain, France, Russia, Venezuela, and Canada account for the largest representations. (more…)
By Carola Chavez on November 12, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron catches up with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at COP27 in Egypt
“Président Madugro!”, Macron almost shouted, picking up the pace to catch up with Nicolas Maduro before winter catches up with him and his denialist colleagues who until late summer insisted on their plan to disown the president of Venezuela in favor of a grainy little mamarracho, because they were ordered to do so from the White House. Oui, monsieur! That is, yes, sir! (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on November 11, 2022
Horrors will be seen. It’s no coincidence that Elon Musk put together his Twitter buyout show just before the U.S. midterm elections. It’s hard to swallow that the South African is behaving like Attila just out of sympathy for the likely Republican candidate for the 2024 election. The underlying plot here is not Trump liking; he is the Trump of Silicon Valley. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 10, 2022
The eyes of the world are on Egypt as this African country is now hosting the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention (COP27), where hundreds of heads of state, ministers, activists, civil society representatives and businessmen from almost 200 countries are discussing climate change. (more…)
By Jorge Majfud on November 10, 2022
Ron DeSantis, photo: EFE
Our societies are molded in the commercialization of life, which, in the United States, already existed long before, but began to radicalize in its current forms at the beginning of the 20th century. (more…)