By Berta Joubert-Ceci on August 31, 2022
Aug. 25 mass protest in front of the governor’s house. photo: Berta Joubert-Ceci
This week the patience of the people in the face of the abuses of the Luma Energy privatization scheme has come to an end. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on August 30, 2022
photo: Roberto Suarez
It is very hard what we are going through in Cuba, so to look for culprits in these circumstance is more than a logical temptation, although not always fair. No management is perfect, much less one that is carried out under conditions of war without quarter that not only has economic effects, but also political and psychological ones, which makes any mistake multiply its consequences. (more…)
By Luis Bruchstein on August 28, 2022
photo: Telam
The corporate media went full speed ahead in an unprecedented effort to compete with the unexpected popular mobilizations against the prosecution of Vice President Cristina Kirchner in the “Vialidad” case. Virtual, doctored, and monopolized information controlled remotely by corporate media—features of modern media warfare—characterized the dispute, which was then broadcast to an audience of thousands. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on August 24, 2022
photo: MR on line
The disordered and brutal intentionality of the United States to control the political, economic, communicational, military and cultural orientations of Latin America is linked to the loss of its relevance in the region. (more…)
August 27, 2022
An oil tanker at the loading terminal of the José Antonio Anzoátegui refinery of Venezuela
Since November 2020, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC) has been in charge of transporting millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil as part of a deal to offset Caracas’ debt to Beijing. This was reported as an exclusive by British news agency Reuters on Friday, August 26, citing three unnamed sources. This agreement is mutually beneficial for both countries but is in clear defiance of US sanctions against Venezuela. (more…)
August 30, 2022
Camilo Guevara
Camilo Guevara March, son of the legendary Cuban-Argentine guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara, who for many years dedicated himself to preserve the memory of his father, from the Center dedicated to the study and dissemination of the thought of the Hero of the Battle of Santa Clara, died yesterday at the age of 60. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on August 28, 2022 from Havana
Abby Martin, photo: Nosdiel Bello
Climate change is an undeniable reality even when some people insist on saying it is not. It is as if it was a problem in the future that should not worry us today because, as we say in my country: “there are no worse blinders than those who do not want to see.” Thirty long years have passed since research and evidence started to come out to prove how real and urgent climate change is. (more…)
August 28, 2022
police attack CFK supporters, photo: Telam
After a day that started with tension, due to the fence erected around the building where Argentina Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) lives by the Buenos Aires government in the early hours, the police repressed hundreds of her supporters with water canons and rubber bullets when they tried to cross the fence at the intersection of Juncal and Uruguay. (more…)