By Susana Antón Rodríguez on May 31, 2022
Saratoga Hotel, photo: Bill Hackwell
After the unfortunate explosion that occurred at the Saratoga Hotel on May 6, not just a few of the surrounding buildings were also affected. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on May 29, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Empire denies its own existence. It does not exist as an empire but only as benevolence, with its mission to spread human rights and sustainable development across the world. However, that perspective means nothing in Havana nor in Caracas, where ‘human rights’ has come to mean regime change, (more…)
By Manuel Humberto Restrepo Domínguez on May 30, 2022.
Gustavo Petro embraces his vice candidate, Francia Márquez
More than 20 million people out of nearly 40 million eligible to vote went to the polls in Colombia on Sunday, in the most complex of all the elections of this XXI century, in which the democratic center of former president Uribe has continuously occupied the government palace and has come to control all public powers by co-optation or decisions with implicit corruption. (more…)
By David Brooks on May 27, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
The crushing avalanche of shocking news in the U.S. this week (like too many before it) leaves one at a loss for adjectives – and verbs, and well, words then – and in search of refuge. Racist hatred, the assault on civil and human rights, and a fear cultivated by right-wing forces draws blood across the country. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on May 29, 2022
ushering out Bolsonaro’s neoliberalism, photo: Bill Hackwell
Brazil is one of those countries with the greatest political and economic weight in Latin America. Now, in the context of October’s presidential elections, the country’s most conservative sectors, led by current President Jair Bolsonaro, intend to make their last moves to dismantle as much as possible any possible hint of social policy. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 29, 2022
ALBA Conference in Havana. photo: Yaimi Ravelo
Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua found an alternative and inclusive platform where they could freely express their ideas and advocate for a true Latin American union, contrary to the Summit of the Americas being convened by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden in Los Angeles. (more…)
By Sheila Xiao and Manolo De Los Santos on May 26, 2022
May 1, march in Los Angeles
Parallel to the exclusionary Summit of the Americas organized by the Biden Administration, people’s movements and organizations have organized the People’s Summit for Democracy to uplift diverse voices from across the region and engage in necessary dialogue. (more…)
May 27, 2022
photo: EPA
During a regional meeting of Ministers of Education, Argentine President, Alberto Fernandez, called out on Thursday the persistence of inequality between North and South in a globalized world and the need to “unite voices”, a context in which he referred to Cuba by saying, “in our continent we have a country that has been blockaded for six decades” and added that “we should be ashamed that this is happening”. (more…)