By Oto Higuita on June 7, 2022
photo: efe, Maurico Duenas Castanada
A phase of political struggle has ended in Colombia since the electoral triumph of Gustavo Petro as president and Francia Márquez as vice-president, the first non-oligarchic government elected by popular vote in the history of the Republic. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 7, 2022
protesting Meta-Facebook
On July 11, it will be one year since the riots in Cuba that made headlines around the world. Anger flared then with the explosive mix of pandemic effects, Donald Trump’s suffocating sanctions that Joe Biden kept intact in the midst of a global health emergency, the accumulated social problems, the economic crisis, the inclement temperatures in the island summer. The systemic and prolonged attack on the daily life of Cubans paid off and the 48 hours in which acts of vandalism were carried out in several cities of the country generated rivers of ink and the prognosis that the revolution would collapse, sooner rather than later. (more…)
By Cindy Forster on July 7, 2022
Francia Márquez
Gustavo Petro, the progressive who won the presidential race in Colombia on June 19th, said right before the elections that “Sunday’s vote will break down exactly like that of the referendum in support of the Peace Accords,” which lost by a narrow margin in 2016. The referendum won in regions of the country that are historically Black and in cities with the largest Black populations, that chose the option of peace as did the capital, Bogotá. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on July 4, 2022 from Havana
the decline of the US is reflected on the streets of its cities and towns. photo: Bill Hackwell
With a stroke of a pen the majority of the US Supreme Court has just set women’s rights in the United States back 50 years. There is no better example of the degradation that nation suffers. Today it celebrates its independence amidst fireworks and bullets. (more…)
July 5, 2022
Alex Saab
Dear President Nicolas Maduro and beloved people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. I would like to send you my greetings on the occasion of our Independence Day.
Our country is moving steadily towards economic growth, stability and national reconciliation despite the sanctions and the inhumane blockade imposed by the United States. (more…)
By José Manzaneda on July 5, 2022
Cuba offers safe tourism that is not always reflected in the world’s media. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Go to the travel section of any major newspaper, El País, for example, and you will be able to discover the “Caribbean beaches, gastronomy and heritage” of the Yucatan. The “most musical Puerto Rico”. The “cultural and ethnic hotbed” of Trebisonda, Turkey. The “eight reasons why Chicago deserves a trip”, among them to see “the most curious jail”, (more…)
By Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos on July 6, 2022
The authors at a clinic in Palpite in Cuba. Photo: Odalys Miranda
Palpite, Cuba, is just a few miles away from Playa Girón, along the Bay of Pigs, where the United States attempted to overthrow the Cuban Revolution in 1961. Down a modest street in a small building with a Cuban flag and a large picture of Fidel Castro near the front door, Dr. Dayamis Gómez La Rosa sees patients from 8 am to 5 pm. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia, on July 5, 2022, from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
A recent report from Miami is assuring that there will be rebellion in Cuba, sooner or later. “The possibility of one or several rebellions of considerable magnitude is extremely high in the short term,” the Cuban Observatory of Conflicts (OCC, in Spanish) stated in a report published Tuesday. But they seem to be talking about a different country. Cuba is at peace. (more…)