Interview by Denis Rogatyuk on August 9, 2021
Dec. 2014 Rene Gonzalez and his family after the return of the Cuban 5. photo: Bill Hackwell
René González is one of the Cuban Five, long jailed in the US for their intelligence work combating far-right Miami terrorist groups. He spoke to Jacobin about the blockade and what his trial told him about the US’s concern for human rights in Cuba. (more…)
By Nathália Urban on August 6, 2021
Bolsonaro greets US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
Showing no qualms about supporting Brazil’s far right military-dominated regime, US President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visited the country on Thursday and gave a positive start of an agenda between the United States and Brazil, even though in the past many believed that there must exist an animosity between Bolsonaro and Biden, because of the Bolsonaro clan’s explicit support for Donald Trump. (more…)
By Luis Britto Garcia on August 7, 2021
La Lecheria Venezuela, photo: Bill Hackwell
In 1919, the young José Rafael Pocaterra, imprisoned in the Rotunda for opposing the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, wrote with pencil stubs two books that are fundamental to understand Venezuela: Memoirs of a Venezuelan in the decadence, and the premonitory novel The House of the Abila Family. (more…)
August 6, 2021
photo: Xinhua
The new president of Peru Pedro Castillo has declared that he will make timely and permanent follow-ups to the appointed ministers and that he will not allow anyone to steal a penny of Peruvian funds. After receiving the first dose of the anti-virus vaccine, he called on the people of Peru to stand behind him and help the executive appointed by the new administration that began last July 28. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on August 6, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
In Latin America and the Caribbean there are new developments that should have a positive impact on the consolidation of what has been called the second progressive wave. This wave would have been triggered by the emergence of new popular governments in the region, after several defeats of progressivism from Honduras and Paraguay to Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay and Bolivia. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 5, 2021 from Havana
Cuban boxer Julio César La Cruz, photo: Roberto Morejon
When dawn broke this morning on the fourteenth day of the Olympic Games, Cuba was in 15th place in the Tokyo medal standings. It is admirable and not fortuitous that the small island of only 11 million people is 15th among the 204 countries attending the world games. (more…)
By Wendy Holm on August 2, 2021
photo: Abel Rojas Barallobre
The emails kept coming in… From farmers and students and chefs and academics whom I’d taken to that tiny island country over the past two decades to learn about her leadership in sustainable agriculture, cooperatives, and growing food in cities: What’s REALLY going on in Cuba?” they asked. (more…)
By Boris Differ on August 3, 2021
Following the inauguration of the new president Pedro Castillo on Wednesday, July 28, despite the destabilization attempts of the opposition led by the oligarchs Fujimori and ultra-right sectors backed by Washington, the president presented his new government and proceeded to give the guidelines of his new policy. (more…)