By Alejandra Garcia on November 8, 2021 from Havana
photo; Bill Hackwell
Cuba dawns this morning with a long-awaited joy after a year and a half of pandemic and social estrangement. Finally hundreds of thousands of children, adolescents, and young people return to the classrooms to resume face-to-face teaching. For many, this November 8 seemed like forever in coming. (more…)
By Brett Wilkins on November 2, 2021
While rich country leaders pushed what critics called false capitalist fixes to the climate crisis during Monday’s sessions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Bolivia’s socialist president warned that true solutions to the planetary emergency require moving beyond capitalism to an “alternative model” that centers living “together in harmony with Mother Earth.”
“The solution to the climate crisis is not going to be achieved with more green capitalism and more global carbon markets.” (more…)
By Atilio Boron on November 6, 2021 from Buenos Aires
Protest against the FTAA at the 2005 IV Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata
On a day like today, but in 2005, the IV Summit of the Americas held in Mar del Plata rejected the U.S. project to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas, the infamous FTAA. With good reason, rivers of ink have been written to extol this enormous achievement of the peoples of our America. (more…)
By José Manuel Blanco Díaz on November 5, 2021
Juan Guaidó
There is around 2.6 million dollars that has gone as salary into the pockets of former deputy Juan Guaidó so far in 2021, according to media and right-wing spokespersons, based on documents emanating from organizations that recognize the alleged and phantom “interim government” of Venezuela. (more…)
By Angel Guerra Cabrera on November 4, 2021
Fidel Castro at the Rio Summit, 1992
Fidel Castro was the first head of state to warn about the very serious threat posed by environmental pollution and greenhouse gases to the human species. (more…)
By Adán Chávez Frías on November 5, 2021
During our recent tour of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, we had the opportunity to meet with authorities from the Executive and Legislative Powers of these countries; as well as with representatives of political organizations, the Movement of Solidarity with Venezuela and cultural and academic institutions of both nations. (more…)
November 2, 2021
Yunior García Aguilera next to counter-intelligence agent Fernando in workshop about “The Role of the Armed Forces in the Process of Transition,” sponsored by US University of Saint Louis – Madrid campus
Carlos Leonardo Vázquez González, a doctor whose specialty is Holistic Family Practice, with an additional specialty in Oncology, was counter-intelligence agent Fernando for 25 years. “I am a Cuban, a revolutionary, a follower of Marti’s thought, and, most of all, a follower of Fidel. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 4, 2021
photo: Ricky Wilson
During the past weeks, Latin America has been involved in two critically important events on the global stage: the G-20 Summit in Rome, Italy, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-26) in Glasgow Scotland which is still underway. (more…)