By Giovanni Beluche V. on March 3, 2022 from San José, Costa Rica
It seems that hard times indeed are coming for the working class, micro- and small-business owners, and small-scale farmers of Costa Rica after the first round of presidential voting on February 6. The two candidates that will go on to the runoff, José María Figueres Olsen and Rodrigo Chaves, have clearly neoliberal proposals: more free trade, more taxes on wage earners, and more cuts to university budgets and social spending. (more…)
By Carmen Diniz on March 5, 2022
capitalism does not work, life is something else
As the world follows anxiously the developments in the conflict in Europe, our feelings are of frustration with humanity. The amount of information that constantly reaches us tends to confuse rather than to explain, and more so when it is not possible to distinguish between false and true news. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on March 4, 2022
Victoria Nuland hands out cookies to nationalists in Ukraine
As was shown in the first part of this research, Ukraine is a country with nationality-related problems, which have very strong historical foundations. The integration of two different social groups within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a catalyst for a national conflict that was kept relatively under control during the Soviet period. (more…)
By Angel Guerra Cabrera on March 3, 2022
Ukranian neo nazis
The February 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine marks a turning point in that country’s contemporary history, in which Washington comes to occupy a preeminent position. From that moment on, far-right forces, inspired by Stepan Bandera’s ultra-nationalism and sympathy for Nazism, have had a decisive influence in Kiev and thus in the implementation of a xenophobic and Russophobic-oriented policy (more…)
By José Luis Méndez Méndez on March 3, 2022
photo: Pedro Portal
In the midst of the usual news generated in the city of Miami, ruled by the bellicose bitconian Mayor Francis Suarez, along with announcing: a man is robbed and shot in a pharmacy; a Florida man is convicted for illegally trafficking turtles and poisonous snakes; a man who killed another in a popcorn case in a Florida movie theater is acquitted, a remake appears: a commission to support a transition to democracy in Cuba is created in Miami. (more…)
March 3, 2022
photo: Latfem, Justice for Berta Cáceres
On January 27th of this year, Xiomara Castro assumed the presidency of Honduras. With a coalition of parties, organizations and social movements, the president faces a seemingly unmanageable number of challenges. Among them, to stop the plundering of the territories and to fulfill the demands that the indigenous peoples and peasants of the Central American nation have had as banners for decades. (more…)
Appeal of the Network in Defense of Humanity on March 1, 2022
The Network in Defense of Humanity welcomes the efforts of dialogue undertaken by the Russian Federation and Ukraine, with the aim of seeking negotiated solutions to a historic conflict, which has worsened over the last eight years and has been intensified by recent events related to the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and demilitarization. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on March 1, 2022
Looking at the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis, the mainstream media, along with analysts and historians, have approached the phenomenon as a new conflict, whose only cause seems to be Russia’s geopolitical interests. However, this approach is not only biased but pays little attention to other important issues that lie behind this historic conflict. (more…)