By Alejandra Garcia on August 26, 2021
La Güinera Cuba, photo: Alejandro Azcuy
On July 11, Havana experienced one of the most violent episodes ever seen on the island in decades, after a series of riots disrupted the tranquility of the capital. While a small group of people took to the streets to urge a solution for the food and medicine shortages the country is facing amid the COVID-19 crisis, the rest of them -the vast majority- pursued the sole aim of overthrowing the government. (more…)
By Emir Sader on August 25, 2021
Out with Bolsonaro! photo: Elineudo Meira
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, rode the anti-politics wave, generated in the demonstrations of 2013 and reinforced in 2016, to take advantage of his situation as an outsider of traditional politics and become the supposed leader of anti-politics. This characteristic always accompanies him, becoming, however, an obstacle for him to govern. (more…)
By Netfa Freeman on August 25, 2021
There is a page in the playbook for U.S. imperialist regime change in Latin America that includes exploiting the identity politics of Blackness. A recent example was the unrest in Cuba a month ago that included a sophisticated attempt to paint the Cuban revolution, its government, and anyone in solidarity with it, as ignoring the interests of Afro-Cubans. (more…)
By Tanya Wadhwa on August 24, 2021
photo: Granma
The Global COVID-19 vaccine inequity gap is large and continues to grow. Low income and lower middle income countries are lagging far behind in inoculating their populations as compared to high income countries. (more…)
By Gabriel Vera Lopes on August 20, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
On August 13, a new round of negotiations began between the Venezuelan government and part of the opposition, which had been refusing to participate in the electoral elections or to recognize Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate elected president. (more…)
August 22, 2021
In Peru a coup d’état is underway against the government of Professor Pedro Castillo. From ALBA Movimientos and from every corner of the Patria Grande we denounce the Peruvian right wing and its insistence on ignoring the popular majorities of this brother country. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on August 23, 2021
US Internet Policy towards Cuba
On Friday, July 16, on the White House lawn and before boarding the helicopter to his Camp David residence, Joe Biden told CNN that “disinformation on the networks is killing us”. In particular, the President of the United States was referring to the publications on the digital network Facebook against the vaccinations against COVID-19 and accused that company of doing nothing to prevent them. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 22, 2021, from Havana
Cuban doctors helping quake victims in Haiti
Nature once again took its toll on Haiti. On August 14, the most impoverished country in Latin America registered a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that as of the latest count has left over 2,000 people dead and 10,000 injured. (more…)