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Solidarity Saves Lives; the World is Mobilizing to Send Syringes to Cuba

By Alejandra Garcia on May 16, 2021 from Havana

Photo: Miguel Rubiera Justiz /ACN

In March, social organizations, political leaders, and solidarity movements launched a fundraising campaign to send syringes to Cuba. The world wants to support the vaccination process of this small nation, which has done so much to fight COVID-19 beyond its geography. (more…)

Peoples of the World Stand with Palestine

By Bill Hackwell on May 15, 2021

SF, Photo: Bill Hackwell

On the 73rd anniversary of Nakba -known to the Palestinians and Arab peoples as the Catastrophe when they were violently driven from their historic land – large protests took place around the world standing up in support of the right of the Palestinians in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem to live in peace and to condemn the Zionist attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque and the genocidal aerial bombing on Gaza that rages and has now killed 188 people including 55 children. (more…)

The Acoustic Attack Epidemic

By Jesus Arboleya on May 12, 2021

US Embassy in Havana, Photo: Bill Hackwell

What at one time was known as the “Havana Syndrome,” the alleged incidents of unknown origin that affected the health of U.S. diplomats stationed in Cuba, has now spread around the globe. It turns out that even in Miami and Washington there are “attacks with microwaves” capable of driving the dogs of US officials crazy while on a walk through the park. (more…)

Colombia: The Collapse of Uribism

By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on May 13, 2021

Two years ago Álvaro Uribe spoke of carrying out a massacre “with social criteria” to put an end to the indigenous Minga in Cauca, and a few hours ago, as commander in chief, he proclaimed: “we trust in the immediate military takeover of Cali… (more…)

Latin America’s Authoritarians Back Israel

May 14, 2021

Caracas, Photo: Bill Hackwell

The latest Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza and ruthless killings of Palestinians has Latin America split along ideological lines once again. (more…)

Apocalypse Now

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on May 13, 2021

a scene from the movie Apocalypse Now.

Worse than forgetting history is twisting it to stir up resentment. British historian Peter Brown said that and on the other side of the Atlantic, at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami, they are asking to consider the invasion of Cuba. (more…)

The Chinese Miracle: 100 Years of the Chinese Communist Party

By Adán Chávez on April 23, 2021

This July, The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will mark 100 years of existence, always at the forefront of the battles that, over that time, have liberated the courageous people of Mao Tse-Tung to establish a new era of distinctively Chinese socialism. (more…)

Colombia: Rising up against the Neoliberalism of War

By Gerardo Szalkowicz on May 12, 2021

Photo: Juan Pablo Rueda, El Tiempo

“Here, if you don’t die of COVID, they will starve you to death or kill you with a bullet,” a demonstrator in her twenties shouted into the microphone, condensing into one sentence the central theme of the strike that has turned into a social explosion. (more…)

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