By Alejandra Garcia on October 20, 2022
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez
On November 2 and 3, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), will consider for the 30th time in a row, the need to put an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba more than 60 years ago. (more…)
October 18, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Leonard Peltier’s name has become a story that reflects other stories. One narrative describes Peltier as America’s longest political prisoner, serving more than 46 years in a federal maximum security prison. In that telling, Peltier has become a humanitarian and a 78-year-old Turtle Mountain elder who has been incarcerated for far too long. (more…)
By Claudia Espinoza I. on October 19, 2022
photo: Julian Peters
This year Cuba had to face several battles from which -despite everything- it is emerging victorious. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on October 20, 2022
Fritzner Lamour (Haiti), Poste Ravine Pintade, ca. 1980
At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’. To many close observers of the situation unfolding in Haiti, the phrase ‘effective support’ sounded like Geneus was signaling that another military intervention by Western powers was imminent. (more…)
October 20, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Turning to the UN Security Council, the OAS, and the US government to “stabilize” the crisis in Haiti today is akin to pleading with the arsonists to quell the fire they have unleashed. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on October 20, 2022
The second round of the Brazilian elections, on October 30, is probably the most important and bitter electoral confrontation in our America since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 18, 2022 from Havana
This October, Cuba remembers the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, a decision that triggered one of the worst crises of the so-called Cold War. For several days, the world was on the brink of a war with incalculable consequences, which showed the will of the Cuban people to defend their sovereignty at any cost. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on October 18, 2022
For someone who regularly follows the news about Latin America, it is common to have mixed feelings, not only because of the social, economic, environmental, and political scenario, but also because of the discourse from some politicians’ who can be beyond annoying because of their cynicism and the way they underestimate the people, who they all claim to work for, although few actually do it. (more…)