By Cristiane Sampaio on September 1, 2021
photo: Patrick Raynaud, fotos Públicas
The percentage of indigenous people murdered in Brazil jumped 22% over the decade from 2009 to 2019. A total of 2,074 indigenous lives makes part of the statistic, released on Tuesday by the Atlas of Violence 2021. (more…)
August 31, 2021
photo: Juan Ignacio Roncoroni / EPA
In Venezuela and much of the world there have been questions about access to covid-19 vaccines, with hoarding by the richest countries undermining the chances of the rest of the planet to get immunized. (more…)
By Angel Guerra Cabrera on September 2, 2021
‘the changes in Cuba are for more socialism’ photo: Bill Hackwell
The Cuban Revolution has emerged strengthened once again from another ferocious onslaught by the United States, which sought to provoke a social explosion and the overthrow of the revolutionary project by force. (more…)
August 1, 2021
photo: Instituto Finlay de Vacunas
The anti-Covid-19 vaccination at pediatric ages in Cuba will have a similar design to the immunization campaign that has been applied on the Island for 59 years, announced scientific authorities. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 31, 2021 from Havana
The last Sundays of August are usually days of joy in Cuba due to the contagious excitement of children returning to school and the hustle and bustle of parents to get uniforms, backpacks, notebooks, and snacks ready for the big day. (more…)
By Carlos Aznarez on August 29, 2021
Vladimir Cerron, photo: GEC
His name is Vladimir Cerrón and he is the target of a fierce attack by the narco-fujimorist right wing in Peru. No wonder, Cerrón, as head of the Peru Libre Party, the same party that made it possible for Pedro Castillo to become President, is a fundamental figure when it comes to ideological reaffirmation so that the process of popular rebellion does not come to nothing as it did with Ollanta Humala. (more…)
By Silvia Beatriz Adoue on August 30, 2021
An encampment of 6,000 people, members of 132 indigenous groups has been camped for a week 20 blocks from the National Congress, in Brasilia. At the same time, the peoples carried out 43 road blockades throughout the week in different states of the country. (more…)
By David Brooks on August 31, 2021
2005-displaced workers from Hurricane Katrina, photo: Bill Hackwell
“The fierce urgency of now. This is not the time to engage in the luxury of calm or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make good on the promises of democracy,” declared the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the culmination of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. (more…)