October 8, 2021.
Che Vive, photo: Bill Hackwell
Today through a series of tweets, Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel, linked the ideas of Che Guevara with the circumstances facing Cuba today. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 7, 2021 from Havana
In 1971, Uruguayan political scientist and author Eduardo Galeano read the pulse of Latin American reality well with his lapidary phrase: “The world is divided above all between the unworthy and the indignant, and everyone knows which side they want to or can be on”. This he wrote in his book, The Open Veins of Latin America, which I leaf through today, 50 years later (more…)
By Emir Sader on October 5, 2021
Out with Bolsonaro! photo: Elineudo Meira
Brazil today lives two levels of struggle at once. The first revolves around ending the Bolsonaro presidency and is a democratic struggle to which all those who today are against him belong – regardless of their positions in the past nor the degree of responsibility they had for Bolsonaro’s rise (more…)
By Angel Guerra Cabrera on October 7, 2021
‘The Changes in Cuba are for More Socialism’ photo: Bill Hackwell
Roughly three months ago, on July 11th, the hegemonic media predicted the end of the Cuban Revolution, supposedly overwhelmed by “peaceful” popular protests. In truth, what really happened that day was the withering defeat by the Cuban people of a counterrevolutionary plan that took the United States years of preparation (more…)
By José Steinsleger on October 6, 2021
photo: Mexico gov.
The relaunch of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) [6th Summit, Mexico City, September 18, 2021] after four years of inactivity was possible thanks to the will of a small group of heads of state interested in articulating a continental bloc of integration and cooperation without the United States and Canada (more…)
By Alba Movimientos on October 5, 2021
Montaraz CCS, photo: Bill Hackwell
Ten years ago we gathered in the Ezequiel Zamora Park (or ‘El Calvario’) of Caracas – as part of a public dialogue alongside Commander Hugo Chávez – and began an ongoing process of urban revolution that has allowed the people of Venezuelan to recover previously abandoned or underutilized lands. Today, millions of houses have been built on these lands (more…)
By Manuel Humberto Restrepo Dominguez on October 04, 2021
Colombia Protest, photo: Resumen Latinoamericano
At the end of 2016, the prospect of peace generated a furor in the Colombian people who held the widespread belief that, finally, rights and lives would be respected. At an international peace forum (U. Central, the Defense Ministry, Alianza para la Paz, Bogota) Colombia’s Minister of Defense informed the world (more…)
By Pascualina Curcio on October 4, 2021
Tricolor Flowers, photo: Bill Hackwell
During the last 50 years there has been, on average, one natural disaster every day resulting in the deaths of 115 people and losses in the order of US$202 million (also per day). Compared to the five previous decades (more…)