By Alejandra Garcia on March 22, 2022 from Havana
photo: Getty Images
The events of July 11, 2021, in Cuba were not fortuitous. On that day, a group of Cubans took to the streets of Havana, looking for economic relief amid overwhelming shortages and pandemic asphyxiation. By that time we had been standing in endless lines for over a year to get food or medicines, while carrying a terrible fear of contagion. (more…)
By Sonia Fleury on March 22, 2022.
Marielle Franco
Her assassination four years ago exposed the hijacking of democracy and the presence of militias in the State’s subway. But Marielle Franco’s life became a seed that inspires the hacking of politics, collective mandates and rebellions in the peripheries of Brazilian society. (more…)
By Ignacio Ramonet on March 21, 2022
What new geopolitical world are we in? What planetary consequences is the war in Ukraine having? What is China doing? What is happening with the information and lies about this conflict? What is happening, in particular, with the functioning of the social networks that appeared as the great democratizing platforms to access better quality information? (more…)
By Nicolás Lynch on March 22, 2022
Pedro Castillo
If six weeks ago the conformation of the third cabinet of Pedro Castillo’s government already signaled us the domestication of his government by the neoliberal right, today the reinstatement of the pardon to to the former corrupt president Alberto Fujimori given in 2017 by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski confirms to us this trend of a reactionary capture of what in the beginning was a leftist government. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on March 20, 2022
Bolivia’s Former President Evo Morales announced last week he would not claim the compensation granted by the Plurinational Constitutional Court. Evo was banned as a Senate candidate for the province of Cochabamba during October 2020 general elections in the Andean country. (more…)
March 20, 2022
photo: Francisco Froner
Agrarian reform and agroecology were topics discussed during Lula’s visit yesterday to the Eli Vive settlement, belonging to the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), in Londrina (PR), the largest agrarian reform area in a metropolitan region of Brazil. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on March 19, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
It is said that the famous Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén used to tell groups of people who wanted to take a portrait with him to “put on a smart face.” and at the end he would smile and tell them to “go back to the normal position”. The group photo of the so-called Cuban dissidence could imitate that joke (more…)
By Luis Britto García on March 19, 2022
Wars are fought with oil and for oil. The Glasgow Summit’s story ended in nothing, with its promises of zero CO2 emissions -that is, zero hydrocarbons- by 2050. We are now living through a war promoted to prevent Russia from selling Europe the oil, coal, natural gas and fertilizers it needs to survive (more…)