By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on August 26, 2022
supporters of Cristina in the streets, photo: Telam
The prosecutors and judges who intend to politically destroy the current Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, have had their shot backfire. Those who, after years of unsuccessful judicial and media set-ups, sometimes forged in the very same office of the former right-wing president Mauricio Macri, are now asking for 12 years in prison and to perpetually disqualify her from holding public office. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez on August 25, 2022
After four years of a right-wing Bolsonaro government, Brazilians will vote for a new president on 2 October 2022. Former president Lula—currently high in the polls—is confronting an increasingly delirious incumbent, who appears to have threatened violent unconstitutional action should he lose. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 25, 2022
photo/ Abel Padrón Padilla
Cuba is living a tense economic situation, aggravated by frequent blackouts, lack of fuel, medicines, food and other necessities. The best stocked stores in the country are those with values in Freely Convertible Currencies, known as MLC -for its acronym in Spanish- a type of currency that most of the people couldn’t afford until very recently. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on August 19, 2022
The gradual decline of unilateralism, generated by the emergence of a new center of power in Eurasia, explains the growing deterioration of political institutionality within the United States. One of its domestic expressions is the judicialization of electoral competition, aimed at discrediting the person who currently expresses the decomposition of public debate and the proliferation of hate speeches: former President Donald Trump. (more…)
By Becca Renk on August 25, 2022
Orla in the hospital with dengue
We’re settling in to our daughter Orla’s sixth night in the hospital. Visiting hours are over and only ten of the beds in our 32-bed pediatric ward are occupied tonight, down from 20 a few nights ago. The patients – mostly young teens in our room – are tucked in under mosquito nets. Their carers – mainly grandmas, aunts and moms – are slouched in chairs or curled around their patients on the beds. (more…)
This resurrected tactic by the US government to discourage the growing solidarity movement with Cuba is a dangerous development that should have all progressive activists and groups on alert. Earlier this month right-wing Senator Marco Rubio, a hater of Cuba, publicly called for the FBI to investigate Carlos Lazo and his humanitarian aid project Puente de Amor for taking powdered milk and medical supplies to the island. It seems like he got their attention. Here we are posting the statement from the Cuba Solidarity Committee of Puerto Rico followed by the solidarity statement from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) – editorial (more…)
By Narkys Blanco on August 23, 2022
photo: PSUV
The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Deputy Diosdado Cabello, noted this Monday, August 22, that the governments of the world have not commented on the hijacking of the Venezuelan plane in (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on August 23, 2022
We recently published two articles called “Cuba and the Peace Talks between the ELN and the Colombian Government: New Opportunities vs. Old Obstacles,” in which we referred to Cuba’s commitment to peace in Colombia; something that former President Ivan Duque boycotted. (more…)