By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva on November 3, 2021
Ecuadorians participate in national strike on October 26 against measures imposed by President Lasso. photo: Nuestroamericano
On October 18, 2021, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days. This declaration led to the constitutional rights of Ecuadorian nationals being suspended and heavily armed troops flooding the streets in Ecuador. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on November 2, 2021
An unfinished independence, which has left in suspense the dream of the Great Homeland imagined by the Liberator Simón Bolívar, retaken and relaunched by Hugo Chávez, and renewed in the present. (more…)
By Kit Klarenberg on November 1, 2021,
Support for Bolivarian Venezuela in the US, photo: Bill Hackwell
America’s interference in the electoral process in Venezuela is laid bare in a series of files that reveal how Washington provided significant investment to train political activists in campaigning effectively online.
Documents released to researchers under the US Freedom of Information Act have revealed how US intelligence fronts weaponized social media to promote Venezuela’s right-wing opposition, and assist their election to parliament, thus laying the foundations for Washington’s appointment of Juan Guaido as the country’s leader in January 2019. (more…)
October 30, 2021
“For public policies and dignified jobs,” photo: FRENADESO
Since October 27, thousands of Panamanians have been taking to the streets in different parts of the country to protest the increase in fuel prices and the worsening of socio-economic conditions. The protesters are demanding that the government of President Laurentino Cortizo take immediate measures to face rampant inflation, rising unemployment, and deteriorating public services.
On October 27 and 28, different trade unions and members of various social organizations held demonstrations and blocked various roads in several parts of the capital, Panama City, with large protests also being held in Colón. Chilibre, Panama Oeste, Veraguas, and others also registered mobilizations in recent days. Transport services remained affected across the country due to the national strike called by the National Chamber of Transportation (CANATRA) against the fuel price increase. On October 29, hundreds of people once again took to the streets in different parts of the country. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 2, 2021
This coming Sunday, November 7, the Nicaraguan people will go to the polls to decide their nation’s political destiny amid hostilities against the government of President Daniel Ortega, who will seek his third reelection on that date. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on November 2, 2021
Biden and Marc Stanley
The empire has lost all its composure. In a few days it has produced two very disturbing pieces of news, which speak of its sickening pretension to recapture total control of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, taking relations between them and the United States back to the point they were at before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on October 31, 2021, from Havana
Havana Libre, photo: Ismael Francisco
One of the most popular issues in Cuba right now is the so called November 15th march. However, not everything seems to be exactly clear about it. First of all who are the ones organizing it? And what are their told and real objectives? (more…)
By Ángel Guerra on October 29, 2021
Junior Garcia, photo: Razones de Cuba
The United States mercenary fifth column in Cuba is calling for a “civic” march, supposedly peaceful, for November 15 in several cities of the island. This is another step in the path of the soft coup and regime change that follows the pattern of Gene Sharp’s texts and the US special operations manuals. (more…)