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Cuba: Five Years after Fidel Castro

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde November 25, 2021

Cuban youth honor Fidel on the 5th anniversary of his passing. photo: Jose Manuel Correa

Fidel Castro died five years ago, but I feel like decades have passed in Cuba since November 25, 2016. Donald Trump arrived and passed slowly with his string of sanctions that have felt worse than ever because of the pandemic. Then came Joe Biden with his faint-hearted court, reeling us each day with veiled or direct threats, without daring to fulfill his timid campaign promises. (more…)

Nicaragua: Troy Will not Fall this Time – part 2

By Marcos Maranges on November 25, 2021

After Nicaragua announced it had just started the process to leave the Organization of American States (OAS), the world began debating the reasons and the consequences of this decision. (more…)

Years of Ongoing Violence: the Fragile Peace in Colombia

By Alejandra Garcia on November 25, 2021

photo: Colombia Informa

Cuba witnessed, like no other nation, the peace process that Colombia experienced just five years ago. Havana hosted the first consensus between the government of then-President Juan Manuel Santos and the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) in August 2016. (more…)

Venezuela: Washington’s Latest Defeat

By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on November 24, 2021

photo: Bill Hackwell

Chavismo achieved a resounding victory in the mega regional and municipal elections of November 21. (more…)

Cuba: from July to November

By Luis Toledo on November 22, 2021

photo: Vladimir Molina Espada

A good portion of the world’s attention has been drawn to the enormous difference between the events that took place in Cuba last July 11 and November 15. Such difference was not the result of chance, nor of what the mis-informative media tries to sell as “brutal repression by a fierce dictatorship”. (more…)

Elections in Venezuela and Chile: Two opposite Realities

By Alejandra Garcia on November 24, 2021

photo: DPA

Venezuela was once again awash in red Sunday with a resounding victory for Nicolás Maduro who was ratified as president of the Bolivarian Republic by its people during the election day in which Chavismo obtained 20 out of the 23 state governorships where voting took place plus the mayor’s office of the capital district. (more…)

Cuba in its Right: Independence and Sovereignty from Its Roots

By Ramón Pedregal Casanova on November 18, 2021

photo: Bill Hackwell

Homeland is a community of interests, unity of traditions, unity of purposes, sweet and consoling fusion of loves and hopes. (more…)

Nicaragua: Troy will not Fall this Time

By Marcos Maranges on November 23, 2021

On November 19th, Nicaragua’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moncada announced to the international community his country’s irrevocable decision to leave the Organization of American States (OAS). The news was a surprise for many people, but the announcement did not come out of nowhere. (more…)

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