By Stella Calloni on February 11, 2022
Patagonia, photo: Bill Hackwell
While the Argentine government maintains its protest before its British counterpart for the extension of the military base located in the archipelago of the Malvinas Islands, colonially occupied by Great Britain since 1833, a serious incident between the personal guards of a foreign businessman, who illegally bought more than 12 thousand hectares in the Patagonian province of Rio Negro, and demonstrators (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 15, 2022, from Havana
photo: Ismael Batista
Two years ago, when COVID-19 broke out, we had no idea that it would be the most traumatic experience that every country in the world would have to live through, and that it would hit especially hard those nations with low resources, such as this small Caribbean island. (more…)
By Leonardo Flores on February 15, 2022
“It’s not a crime to fulfill a diplomatic mission. It’s not a crime to evade sanctions that are harming an entire country. It can’t be illegal to help a people.” Camilla Fabri Saab made these impassioned remarks when explaining the situation behind the illegal arrest and extradition – the kidnapping, in essence – of her husband, Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 13, 2022
photo: epa
Even though you wouldn’t know if you only followed the corporate media, in January violence continued to spiral in Colombia. Human rights movements recorded an increase of attacks against police stations, military bases, and civilians and reported assassinations and intimidation against social leaders in several departments. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on February 13, 2022
photo; wiki commons
The Commission on the Political System of Chile’s Constituent Assembly has passed an initiative to turn the South American country into a Plurinational State. It was passed with 19 favorable votes, only three votes against, and a similar number of abstentions. This is the first step to include such a progressive achievement into the new Constitution, which should be set to vote on in the second half of 2022. (more…)
By Ilka Oliva-Corado on February 13, 2022
remittance
He left the second shift at three in the afternoon, after he had worked from 5 to 10 a.m. in a furniture store cutting wood and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second shift, cleaning offices. On his way to the third shift where he works as a waiter’s assistant in a Lebanese restaurant he stops at a Mexican supermarket to send his weekly remittance to his family in San Sebastian, Retalhuleu, Guatemala, it is Sunday and he is working like every other day of the week. (more…)
By Susana Antón Rodríguez on February 10, 2022
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, spoke this Tuesday with Gail Walker, executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), to which the Pastors for Peace Caravan belongs. (more…)
By Orlando Oramas León February 12, 2022
photo: efe
The United States fails to comply with the migratory agreements it has made with Cuba, and at the same time encourages illegal emigration from the island, whose population it is trying to suffocate with the economic, commercial and financial blockade. (more…)