By Atilio Borón on October 23, 2023
Javier Millei, photo: red 92
Yesterday Argentinians pulled back at the polls from rejecting Peronism altogether and its struggle to advance with the $45 billion dollar IMF loan around its neck. While polls had the Bolsonaro like Javier Milei with a considerable lead the Peronist candidate Sergio Massa emerged with over 36% of the vote with Milei coming in second with 30% and rightist Patricia Bullrich coming in third with 23%. The two top vote getters will now face off on the November 19 election for the presidency. – editorial (more…)
By Becca Renk on October 21, 2023
Thanks to a complete overhaul of the country’s educational system in the past 15 years, record numbers of students are graduating from high school. Although recent international headlines claim academic spaces are closing in Nicaragua, there is now actually increased access to free public universities. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on October 20, 2023, from Havana
Watan Jamil Alabed, photo: Ana Hurtado
Eduardo Galeano said that the world is divided between the unworthy and the indignant and you have to choose which side you are on. (more…)
By Leticia Martinez Hernandez on October 22, 2023
Cuban President Diaz Canel arrives in Yucatan
The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, arrived this Sunday morning in Mexico to participate in the “Palenque Meeting: for a fraternal neighborhood with well-being”, a meeting convened by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the aim of addressing the migration issue. (more…)
By Graciela Ramirez on October 22, 2023 from Havana
The child is holding back tears. His little body is trembling.
“Muhamad, what’s wrong? What happened? Were you sleeping?” asks the doctor. The child answers with a nod of his head.
“What was it, the bombing?”
Muhamad answers: “yes, the bombing.”
“It’s over, it’s over, don’t be afraid, now, now… I’m with you, don’t be afraid…” says the doctor who was also a child like Muhamad. (more…)
October 20, 2023
Around 5,000 demonstrators in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian repudiated the Israeli genocide and the complicity of the United States by gathering in front of the embassy of that martyr state in Buenos Aires. There, they made a symbolic embrace and repudiated the criminality of Zionism. While waving Palestinian flags, they shouted slogans against “Israel” and the United States. (more…)
For more than six decades, the Cuban people have been facing a genocidal blockade that violates their fundamental rights to life, health, food, education and culture, among others. It also hinders the Cuban government’s continuous efforts to eradicate inequalities and achieve greater social justice, objectives endorsed in the Constitution adopted in 2019. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 19, 2023
Daniel Noboa,
Against all odds, businessman Daniel Noboa, heir to a vast business empire, won the elections in Ecuador with 52.1% of the votes in his favor, ahead of the 47.9% of the leftist Luisa Gonzalez. (more…)