By Alejandra Garcia and Gustavo A. Maranges on December 30, 2021, from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
This 2021 has been the most difficult year for the Cuban people. In addition to the ravages of the blockade, thousands of people died due to the Covid-19. The list was immense, and as the days went by, names became familiar and beloved faces. (more…)
By Emir Sader on 12/30/2021
Vaccination campaign in Manaus photo: Marcely Gomes/Semcom.
Vaccine, that has been the word voted as the most important one of 2021 in Brazil. With good reason. Because there is a strong denialist movement in the world that seeks to oppose science, vaccines, and knowledge. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 30, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean continued in a seamless transition from Trump to Biden, but the terrain over which it operated shifted left. The balance between the US drive to dominate its “backyard” and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, continued to tip portside in 2021 (more…)
December 21, 2021
A Speech by Atilio Borón in remembrance of the One Hundred and Ninety-first Anniversary of the Liberator Simón Bolívar’s passage to immortality, on December 17, 1830, celebrated at Rivadavia Park in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, at the foot of the monument to Simón Bolívar. (more…)
By Emir Sader on December 29, 2021
Out with Bolsonaro
The first characteristic of 2021 in Brazil was the reversal of the optimistic expectation of economic reactivation and favorable projection for 2022. Throughout the year, on the contrary, the economic recession consolidated, to the point that the CB had to substantially raise interest rates. (more…)
December 28, 2021
Fifty years ago, when I first gave birth as a young mother, I thought there could be no greater pain, but I soon forgot it as I held my beautiful baby boy in my arms. I named him Julian. (more…)
By Itzamná Ollantay on December 28, 2021.
photo: Bill Hackwell
In the Christmas atmosphere, and the day after the feast of the “Holy Innocents”, the groups that had taken up arms in the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) and the Guatemalan Creole State, after 36 years of “internal war”, signed the firm and lasting Peace Agreements on December 29, 1996. (more…)
By José (Papo) Coss on December 21, 2021
Protest in US against corruption in Puerto Rico, photo: Bill Hackwell
When two decades ago, U.S. Attorney Guillermo Gil, of the U.S. court imposed on Puerto Rico, said that “public corruption responded to the name and surname of the NPP (New Progressive Party),” I wrote that the PDP (Popular Democratic Party) was also part of the political looting. (more…)