By Luis Britto García on April 23, 2022
photo: Luis Britto García
How long will the world’s proven oil reserves last? In 2016, it was estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) that 1.65 trillion barrels remained, which at the annual consumption rate of 35,442,913,090 would give 47 years, of which seven years have already elapsed. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 21, 2022
Joanna Pereira being interviewed by Alejandra Garcia
At the end of April, Cuba will conclude the process of popular discussion of the Family Code, a legal initiative that seeks to be an agreed upon portrait of Cuban society. It came out of necessity, because much has changed in the island’s social panorama since the 1970s, when the current Code came into existence. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on April 21, 2022 from Havana
“ US migration policy is incoherent and differentiated”. Josefina Vidal, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
As a Cuban sometimes you get tired of listening to news about the US because it is an everyday stream of issues mostly related to bad things. We get used to the ups and downs while you are always wondering why do they want to make us suffer so much? (more…)
By Cheryl LaBash on April 21, 2022 from Havana
Solidarity activists to join the Cuban people in the Plaza of the Revolution. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Three days of solidarity will mark May Day 2022 in Havana. In Cuba, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic forced cancellation in 2020 and 2021, the awesome May Day march will joyously take place Sunday, May 1. The march theme, Cuba Vive y Trabaja — Cuba Lives and Works — expresses the firm and unconditional decision to continue consolidating “Our Economic-Social Socialist Development Model.” The events are dedicated to Cuba’s historical leader, Fidel Castro Ruz. (more…)
April 19, 2022
On Tuesday, Mexico rated the Cuban Abdala vaccine as very good, both in adult and children’s format, as explained by the Undersecretary of Public Health Prevention, Hugo Lopez-Gatell. (more…)
By João Pedro Stedile on April 17, 2022
On April 17, 1996, 19 peasants of the Brazilian Landless Movement were assassinated in the municipality of Eldorado Dos Carajás, in the south of the state of Pará. The event took place during a peaceful mobilization organized to demand the expropriation of idle land from local landowners. (more…)
By Michael Hudson on April 7, 2022
It is now clear that today’s escalation of the New Cold War was planned over a year ago. America’s plan to block Nord Stream 2 was really part of its strategy to block Western Europe (“NATO”) from seeking prosperity by mutual trade and investment with China and Russia. (more…)
April 18, 2022
Opposition lawmakers in Mexico have been condemned as ‘traitors’ to their country after they rejected the electrical reform that would see the country become self-sufficient in energy. (more…)