By Hedelberto López Blanch on October 26, 2021.
Everything seems to indicate that Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, due to his political, economic and financial mistakes, has a noose around his neck which, if tightened, will force him to finish his term of office before the end of his term, as it has happened before with three other presidents of that Andean nation. (more…)
By Pasqualina Curcio on October 25, 2021
Some say that socialism is a failure, that it generates hunger and misery. In contrast, and as part of the hegemonic discourse that has managed to permeate the imagination of billions of people, they say that capitalism is the model to follow. According to them, the latter is successful. (more…)
By Carolina Vásquez Araya on October 24, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
“When I was born they put two tears in my eyes so that I could see the size of the pain of my people.” (Humberto Ak’abal) (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 24, 2021
reburial of the victims of the El Mozote Massacre. Photo: Pedro Linger-Gasiglia
In February 1982, a farmer held the US -backed Salvadoran Army responsible for the worst massacre recorded in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on October 24, 2021 from Havana
US protest against the police murder of George Floyd, photo: Crush Rush
In Articles 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on freedom of expression, we are told that it “guarantees as a whole the right to assemble publicly or privately to express, promote, pursue and defend common interests.” Remember that phrase “common interests.” (more…)
October 22, 2021
photo: Marek Studzinski – Pixabay
Without any doubt, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy, and, as a consequence, on the population as a whole. Its appearance accelerated a systemic crisis that was already underway and allowed us to perceive the urgent need of change in the dynamics of the relationships imposed by capitalism. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 20, 2021 from Havana
Cuban youth performing Peter and the Wolf. photo: Bill Hackwell
Every October 20, for almost four decades, Cuba has been marking its National Culture Day as a tribute to the date on which La Bayamesa, our National Anthem, was sung for the first time in Bayamo city, Granma Province. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on October 21, 2021
Since at least the start of the 21st century, if not earlier, two global trends have emerged very clearly. Firstly, increased North American and European aggression overseas has been accompanied by increased economic and political domestic repression in the US itself and its allied countries. (more…)