By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on November 11, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
The United States government already wants a triumphant color revolution in Cuba. It dreams, without any basis in political reality, that the end of the troublesome project of an independent, sovereign nation, of profound social justice and socialist orientation and in solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of the world, located for 62 years only 144 kilometers from its shores, is near. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 11, 2021 from Havana
photo: Andrew Wragg
Cuba is getting ready to make a transition toward normalcy after more than one year of struggle against the pandemic. On Monday, thousands of children from first to fifth grade will return to classrooms as the country’s borders will be open to receive international travelers and all Cubans who have been unable to return home due to international health restrictions. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 11, 2021
Photo: Agencia Andina
Yesterday Peru’s President Pedro Castillo addressed the nation to talk about his government’s achievements during the first one hundred days of his presidency. It was a good speech, full of new and ongoing actions to improve the living conditions of a large part of the Peruvian people; (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on November 9, 2021
The rigorous commentators of the political process in Nicaragua have not spared any criticism to disqualify yesterday’s electoral process. President Joe Biden was blunt: he said the whole thing was a “pantomime” (more…)
By Rick Sterling on November 10, 2021
Citizens of Juigalpa Nicaragua in line to vote. photo: Rick Sterling
US media and politicians have condemned the November 7 Nicaragua election as a “fraud” and “sham”. On the day of the election, the White House issued a statement saying Nicaragua held a “pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic.” (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 9, 2021
The lower chamber of the Chilean parliament just passed a resolution to impeach President Sebastian Piñera due to his involvement in the global corruption scandal of Pandora Papers. (more…)
By Raúl Alejandro Palmero on November 9, 2021
Preliminary results have given 75% of the votes in Nicaragua’s presidential election on Sunday to Daniel Ortega, legendary commandante of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on November 7, 2021 from Leon, Nicaragua
Nicaraguans leave the election polling station with inked thumbs, showing they have voted. Photo by Roger D. Harris
On the fight down to Nicaragua a few days ago to be one of 225 international official election accompaniers from 27 countries, the expat Nicaraguan woman sitting next to me was hostile to the current Sandinista government. She said there will be an election but no vote, because only one person is on the ballot. (more…)