By Gustavo A Maranges on April 19, 2022
photo: EFE/EPA
COVID-19 pandemic has been a difficult time for everybody, but it has shown the more unequal a country is, the more its people disproportionately suffer. So, it is not a coincidence finding the United States, India, and Brazil ranking as the top three in total cases. All three have faced enormous crisis prolonged and repeated every time a new strain has shown up. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 17, 2022 from Havana
Fidel leading the resistance at Playa Giron
In mid-April 1961, fifteen hundred mercenaries trained and financed by Washington set sail from a port in Miami and headed to Cuba with a single purpose: to destroy the newborn Revolution. In the early morning of April 17 of that year, five merchant ships, two war units, three barges, and four cargo boats touched Cuban soil at the Bay of Pigs in Matanzas. (more…)
By María Fernanda Barreto on April 1, 2022
photo: EFE
In 1829, six years after the famous proclamation of James Monroe’s government, Simón Bolívar referred with great political clarity to the North American power by pointing out in a now famous phrase that the United States seemed to be destined “to plague America with misery in the name of Liberty”. (more…)
By Raúl Capote Fernández on April 16, 2022.
photo: Omara García Mederos
In recent weeks, the manipulation of the Cuban migratory issue has increased in social networks and counterrevolutionary digital sites, the media articulation that responds to Washington’s interests never tires of encouraging and calling for illegal departure to the United States. (more…)
By Emir Sader on April 14, 2022
Argentines do not understand how a Brazilian can hate Lula. How someone who made such good governments, who reduced hunger, poverty, and inequalities in such an unequal country, can there be people who not only do not love him (more…)
Buenos Aires, April 13, 2022
From the Argentina Chapter of the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity, we join the growing concern and mobilization of cultural workers given that on December 31 of this year (by a law introduced by the Macri Government in 2017) the specific promotion funds that subsidize cinema, theater, music, radios, libraries and community media will cease to exist. (more…)
By Pablo Jofre Leal on April 11, 2022
Francia Márquez and Gustavo Petro, photo: Darwin Torres
The United States and the current government presided over by Democrat Joe Biden, in its usual stubborn way that characterizes US administrations, are increasing pressure on Latin American states to prevent the construction of a regional policy independent of Washington, both in the field of domestic and foreign policy. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on April 14, 2022
Cuba’s white coats
While the United States began its illegal war against Iraq in 2003, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro spoke in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ‘Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples’, he said, ‘nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities … Our country’s tens of thousands of scientists and doctors have been educated on the idea of saving lives’. (more…)