By Alejandra Garcia on October 3, 2021 from Havana
The Malecon, photo: Bill Hackwell
This weekend, for the first time in months, Cuba woke up to the news that the number of people infected with COVID-19 fell below 4,900. The incidence is still very high, but the number is encouraging because it is steadily trending down. (more…)
By Eduardo Paz Rada on September 30, 2021
Bolivian President Luis Arce vs OAS and Almagro
The Bolivian government has become the main promoter of the recovery of the processes of sovereign and emancipatory integration of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the strengthening of common policies among the countries of the region under the postulates of the unity of the Patria Grande (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on October 10, 2021
Alex Saab is “the key that unlocks the Venezuelan monetary mystery—that is, how a country facing sanctions from the US, the UK and the European Union—is still able to export things like gold and oil…and really the only man who can actually explain how the country [Venezuela] survives today,” according to Forbes. (more…)
By José Steinsleger on September 29, 2021
I was scribbling notes for a brief commentary on the re-launching of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC, sixth Summit, Mexico, September 18), when I stopped at a reader’s letter published in El Correo Ilustrado , entitled “Simón Bolívar’s impossible dream”. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on September 30, 2021
In another moving feat, Cuba announced on Tuesday 28th that more than 80 percent of its inhabitants have already received at least one of the three doses that are part of its immunization scheme with its own vaccines against Covid. (more…)
By Carolina Vásquez Araya on September 29, 2021
MLK day, San Francisco, photo: Bill Hackwell
Peace is not the antithesis of war. Peace is all-encompassing.
The example of world leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi have taught us great lessons. (more…)
By Atilio Borón on September 29, 2021
Until a few years ago we critics of U.S. imperialism were traditionally ignored by experts, academics and the media. We were accused of being “ideological” and disrespectful of the realities of the international scene, or, in some cases, marginalized; (more…)
September 27, 2021
Peru’s opposition parties in Congress, Renovación Popular and Avanza Pais, have released a joint statement calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Guido Bellido for saying that the country’s natural gas reserves will be nationalized. (more…)