By Carolina Vásquez Araya on February 22, 2020
photo: Bill Hackwell
While the Giammattei government suffocates justice, the empire is silent. The network woven by the Pact of Corrupts is strong and compact; its operators -political sector, business elite, Army, judicial system and criminal organizations- act in close coordination with the purpose of stifling any attempt to reestablish the rule of law in Guatemala. (more…)
By Isaac Bigio on February 24, 2022
This is a thorough historical background primer of the crisis in Ukraine from a Latin American perspective – Editorial (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on February 23, 2022
This article, written just prior to the Russian military intervention into Ukraine, provides some important background of recent history leading up to the crisis – Editorial (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on February 24, 2022
Cuban children receiving afternoon snack at school. photo: Bill Hackwell
The rising tension in Europe has not distracted President Biden enough to stop thinking for a while about how to keep the United States government’s foot over Cubans’ neck. He recently found time to stop and sign in a few seconds a measure that will affect the lives of 11 million people. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 22, 2022 from Havana
anti war protest in US, photo: Liberation News
America’s hatred towards Russia is old news. Since the Cold War years, successive White House administrations have allocated billions of dollars to form Russophobes, spread false information, and discredit the European giant before the international community. (more…)
By John Pilger on February 20, 2022
Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the U.S. and Britain. (more…)
By Ramón Frontera Nieves on February 19, 2022
The People Before the Debt, photo: Ramón Frontera Nieves
Despite the rains that hit Puerto Rico last Friday, thousands of public employees declared a work stoppage and demonstrated in the streets demanding a salary increase and a decent pension at the time of their retirement. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on February 22, 2022
image: Al Mayadeen
The political genius of Biden and Blinken continues to reap fruits: not only has it united China and Russia, but while they talk about alliances of the latter with Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua and invent a “Russian invasion of Ukraine”, it is the Presidents of two of its neighbors with more economic weight, Alberto Fernandez of Argentina and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, who have visited Moscow. (more…)