By John Perry on February 6, 2024
Why do United Nations human rights bodies focus on some countries, but not others? Why do organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International appear to ignore important evidence presented to them? And why do the media repeat stories of human rights abuses without questioning their veracity? (more…)
February 5, 2024
Evo Morales and Gustavo Petro
Evo Morales has added his support to the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, in the face of an “attempted judicial coup” and has accused the U.S. of promoting these types of judicial coups in Latin America. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 6, 2024
Bukele’s re election celebration
This Sunday, candidate for re-election Nayib Bukele proclaimed himself president of El Salvador with just 30 percent of the votes counted. “This has been an overwhelming victory, in which we have received more than 85% of the votes,” said the president, 42, amid claims of irregularities, violations of democracy, and problems with the vote count. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti February 5, 2024
Hugo Chávez Frías.
If history is not reduced to a museum, dates and anniversaries remind of the struggle of the oppressed classes, which have built or suffered its courses and resources. If history is not reduced to parody, it celebrates moments and figures who interpreted its meaning by anticipating leaps and ruptures and adds new pages to the book of the future. And new flags are raised. (more…)
By Kim Ives on February 2, 2024
Demonstrators demanding that Ariel Henry step down skirmished with cops on Jan. 30 in Petit Goâve.
Never have revolutionary conditions in Haiti been so favorable. The government of de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry is completely illegitimate, ineffective, and unpopular. The U.S. empire is preoccupied and overextended in contending with crises in Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, and Yemen. (more…)
By José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on February 5, 2024
The current attack against the Spanish based Cubainformacion news service is spreading widely in certain independent media circles but it is practically invisible in the big cartelized media. Cubainformación is an essential international news service that focuses on the defense of the political and social project of the Cuban Revolution, (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 4, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The blockade against Cuba is real. It is palpable in the kilometer-long lines of cars that take hours or days in front of the gas stations nationwide, and in the lack of medicines in the national network of pharmacies, the shortage of medical supplies in hospitals, and the obstacles the country faces to purchase food on the international market. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on February 3, 2024 from Buenos Aires
photo: Diego Martinez
What happened on Friday evening in Congress was to be expected with the new law of infamy being passed in Congress 144-109. Meanwhile Milei’s “sergeant” Patricia Bullrich is very upset that the people of Buenos Aires do not comply with her authoritarian ordinances. (more…)