December 22, 2021
Kawsachun News spoke to Bruno Sommer, founder of El Ciudadano, one of Chile’s leading progressive media outlets. We discussed what Chile and the world can expect from Gabriel Boric and the broad movement that delivered Sunday’s landslide electoral victory. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on December 22, 2021
photo: Liborio Noval
On December 22, 1961, in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution, Cuba was declared an illiteracy free territory. The same flag that was raised in every municipality of the island was now raised in the capital, crowning the effort that had culminated in providing 707 thousand Cubans with the ability to read and write in just one year. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 21, 2021
On Sunday night, a few minutes after the victory of leftist Gabriel Boric was declared, the center of Santiago de Chile and other important cities of the southern country was filled with people honking horns and waving Chilean flags. The long-suffering nation, battered by the fascist legacy of Augusto Pinochet, took to the streets to celebrate a long-awaited victory. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on December 21, 2021
graphic courtesy: UTOPIX
When we think about politics, the first thing that often comes to our minds is economy, geopolitics, or voters. However, we sometimes forget to think first in communications or images. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on December 20, 2021
unity, firmness and victory. photo: Bill Hackwell
On July 11, 2021, a plan carefully conceived 17 years earlier by the U.S. government was defeated in Cuban neighborhoods and streets. (more…)
By Luis Hernandez Navarro on December 20, 2021
New progressive leaders in Latin America. From right to left: Andres Lopez Obrador, Gustavo Petro, Pedro Castillo, Xiomara Castro and Gabriel Boric. Photo: by Orinoco Tribune.
Interview with Álvaro García Linera former Vice President of Bolivia during the Evo Morales presidency and a leader of the Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army in the early 1990s. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 10, 2021
Cubans respond to N15 provocations. photo: Abel Padron Padilla
The November 15 provocation in Cuba failed. That is not coming from the communist newspaper Granma, but by the promoters and sponsors of the march that did not happen. (more…)
By Hedelberto Lopez Blanch on December 17, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
How can it be conceivable that the United States unilaterally and arbitrarily summoned chosen countries to a summit for democracy when it maintains in the Caribbean the oldest colony in the world: Puerto Rico? (more…)