By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 24, 2022
Haiti, photo: Juvenal Balán
Haiti was the first free nation in Latin America and the Caribbean, the first nation in the modern world emerging from a slave revolt, and the second most long-standing republic in the Western Hemisphere. The Haitian people overthrew the French colonialists in 1804, abolished slavery, and declared independence. (more…)
By Álvaro García Linera on June 30, 2022
Álvaro García Linera photo: Octavio Nava
Certainly, what happened in Bolivia presents a certain degree of exceptionality. They could not win electorally and, therefore, resorted to violence. However, this kind of right-wing comeback can also occur in other ways in other parts of the continent and the world. Police-military coups are not the only way in which the right wing can regain power. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on June 30, 2022
US Embassy in Havana, photo: Minrex
Olga Lidia was very hesitant at first, when she was proposed to reach the United States irregularly through Central America. At her age, she believed she was not physically fit to undertake a journey that would take her through countries, jungles, rivers and put her life in the hands of several coyotes. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on June 29, 2020
participants of the Peoples Summit in LA protest against NATO in early June. photo: Bill Hackwell
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) concludes today its summit in Madrid and is the opposite of the image of unity, cohesion and martial spirit spread by the imperialist war propaganda, omnipresent and uniformed to the millimeter, in the hegemonic media of the “West”. Something similar to their boomerang “sanctions” against Russia. (more…)
June 28, 2022
Gustavo Petro
The newly elected president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said it is necessary to normalize relations with Venezuela. In his first interview granted to a Colombian media, he told Cambio that the border issue is his main concern.
“Because there is a strong, very strong illegality going on there”, he pointed out while referring to the area of Cúcuta and its possible use in terms of industrialization. “In other words, because of our political difficulties between nations, we are not taking advantage of the enormous territorial resources that exists there”.
Another key issue that concerns the two Bolivarian nations is the Colombian-Venezuelan company Monómeros, kidnapped by the Guaidó clan in complicity with the previous government. Petro explained that the fertilizer producing company he is very important to the country agricultural production and, therefore, necessary to address hunger in his country. “The financial asphyxia that this company has suffered has it paralyzed and so now we have to import fertilizers at three times the value.
The border and the company Monómeros are the initial main knots needing to be untied between the governments of President Maduro and Gustavo Petro. It is worth reminding that the relations between both countries deteriorated and became more complex with his predecessor, Iván Duque, who bowed to the US imperial agenda and made Colombia a center of operations to plan the assassination of the Venezuelan president.
Source: Mision Verdad, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English
By David Brooks on June 27, 2022
large demonstrations over the US after supreme court ruling against women’s rights. photo: Liberation News
“Granddaughters today should not have to fight the battles their grandmothers had already won,” declares a banner at protests in the tens of thousands that erupted around the country at the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the constitutional right to abortion, while at the annual massive gay pride parades with banners pointing out that “we are still us” (more…)
By Rodrigo Guillot on June 28, 2022
AMLO
In 2010, Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro said: “López Obrador will be the person with the most moral and political authority in Mexico when the system collapses and, with it, the empire.” He was referring to Andrés Manuel López Obrador (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on June 28, 2022
the people of Ecuador remain in the streets.
Today marks 15 days since the beginning of the demonstrations against the neoliberal government of Guillermo Lasso. During that time over 15,000 indigenous people and representatives of social movements have joined the protests to demand urgent actions to stop the collapse of the living conditions of the poorest and the entire working class. (more…)