September 2, 2023
Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo in a press conference with Vice President-elect Karin Herrer Photo: Esteban Biba/EFE.
The president-elect of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, denounced “a coup d’état in progress” in the country, where the Congress has refused to recognize the parliamentary bloc of his party, the Semilla Movement, after the party’s legal status was temporarily suspended by the judiciary. (more…)
September 1, 2023
photo: Brazil de Fato
On Thursday Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva presented an ambitious plan to take the South American country off of the world hunger map. “The problem is not a lack of food, it is not a lack of crops, the problem is that the people do not have enough to buy food,” Lula said in a public event in the city of Teresina. (more…)
August 30, 2023
photo: Manel Marquez.
The Chilean government will launch this Wednesday the National Search Plan for the Detainees Disappeared during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. (more…)
By Susana Hurlich on August 30, 2023 from Havana
BRICS has now become a force that can no longer be ignored. Founded in 2006 as BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), in 2010 South Africa joined to create BRICS. With a commitment to inclusive multilateralism, cooperation and the common good, BRICS aspires to offer itself and the global south a real alternative to western hegemony and the manipulative domination of the U.S. dollar. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on August 31, 2023
photo: Abriendomundo
In recent days news circulated about the partial declassification by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of two Presidential Daily Briefings (PDB), prepared to be read by Richard Nixon. The first is dated September 8 and the second 11 of the same month, during the 1973 coup d’état against Chilean President Salvador Allende. (more…)
By Katu Arkonada on August 30, 2023
The recent summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa) taking place in the midst of several political turbulences between Europe and an Africa that rejects European neocolonialism, has finally left behind the moments of unipolarity (US hegemony) and bipolarity (expressed in the conflict between Russia and the West, Europe, the United States and NATO), to consolidate a multipolar world. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on August 30, 2023
We have recently seen Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel touring the African continent with his work team. He was received everywhere as a son, as a brother and even as a father. We should not be surprised that this is the case, we only need to look back a little way to see why. (more…)
By Emir Sader on August 28, 2023, from Rio de Janeiro
Friends, journalists and others, ask, more and more constantly, how Argentina is seen in Brazil. There are so many things to talk about, but it is clear that they are now referring to Milei, the lead vote getter in the Argentine primaries. (more…)