By Madeleine Sautié on December 18, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
The great Cuban trova singer, songwriter and humanitarian Vicente Feliu died last night just as he was about to perform. Ironically his passing comes on the 7th anniversary of the return of the Cuban 5 that he worked hard on to help bring about. For those of us who were in the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 in the US we will always remember the concert tour we did with Vicente in 2012 to bring awareness to the case in Washington DC, New York and San Francisco. – Editorial (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 16, 2021
ESMAD, photo: Jim Glade
A quick internet search for the term “Colombia” returns some pretty grim results: Violence has no end and police brutality is responsible for the deaths of scores of protesters in the southern country. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on December 16, 2021 from Havana
Bolivian President Luis Arce and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel
The President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Luis Arce paid an official visit to Cuba last Wednesday after attending the XXth Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), which took place in Havana a day before. This visit to Cuba is a clear signal of the recovery of bilateral relations, (more…)
By Hedelberto Lopez Blanch on December 13, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has proved disastrous for all the nations of the world and especially for the less developed ones, which are now facing another serious economic threat: the theft of brains and human resources by developed countries. (more…)
“17 years of defending Latin American and Caribbean integration and peace” (more…)
By Marc Vandepitte and Toon Danhieux on December 14, 2021
Increasingly, large sectors of the European population, and in the US to a lesser extent, openly express their distrust towards their government’s policies to combat COVID-19. The reaction of the traditional policy is one of panic and is characterized by paternalism and repression: general obligation to vaccinate and restricting freedom of movement. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 14, 2021 from Havana
photo: Prensa Latina
Hugo Chávez never forgot the first time he stepped on Cuban soil on December 13, 1994. To his surprise, Fidel was waiting for him at the bottom of the stairs of the plane. One photo immortalized that historic encounter: On the right, the Cuban leader, on the left, Chavez, both smiling, dressed in olive green with their arms tightly clasping each other’s shoulders. (more…)
By Emir Sader on December 14, 2021
Boric versus Kast
Chile has had a long tradition of institutional continuity. Since 1820, when the national state was established, there were only two moments of institutional rupture, one in the 1890s, another in the 1920s, both very short. (more…)