By Kurt Hackbarth on November 16, 2023
Western governments don’t represent the will of their populations on Gaza. photo: Bill Hackwell
As anger increases in the United States, Canada, and Europe over their leaders’ refusal to take a firm stand against the ongoing Israeli atrocities against Gaza, it is Latin America that is leading the way. (more…)
By Carlos Eduardo Sanchez on November 18, 2023
This afternoon, President Nicolás Maduro received at the Miraflores Palace his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, who is on an official visit to the country. The meeting was held in order to fortify binational relations, which since the Colombian president took office have undergone a change that aims at laying the foundations for new ties, characterized by cooperation, respect and solidarity, thus eradicating the vestiges of thorny moments caused by previous ultra-right governments of the neighboring nation. (more…)
By Ann Garrison on November 16, 2023
Liz Oliva Fernandez speaking in Boston. photo: Bill Hackwell
When oppressed people get organized, the US gets angry. It’s been punishing the people of Cuba since 1962.
On November 2, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a resolution calling on the US to lift the trade embargo against Cuba that President John Kennedy imposed in 1962. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 16, 2023
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez
This week, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla presented at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva for the fourth time the nation’s report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism that evaluates member countries in the field of human rights. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on November 16, 2023
photo: Yaimi Ravelo
Today and tomorrow, an international tribunal is being held in the Belgian capital to denounce the damages suffered by the Cuban people as a result of the U.S. blockade that the island has been experiencing for more than six decades. (more…)
By Fernando Buen Abad on November 15, 2023
photo: U Chile
The “story” bathed (profitably) in blood. Placed on the “editorial desks”, the weapons of ideological warfare are surgical instruments prepared to daily disfigure on (against) reality. They sanctify themselves with the alibi of “informing” about the “war” and take pleasure, unashamedly, in bloodbaths and spectacles of corpses. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on November 14, 2023, from San Francisco
photos: Bill Hackwell
For the last four days at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit there has been non stop protests with thousands trying to shut it down while raising issues from the climate crisis to workers rights and an end to the genocide in Gaza. The APEC summit is a major neo liberal gathering of corporate elites and compliant governments that are here to make deals in dividing up the wealth of the world with little regard to the needs of the vast majority of people who inhabit this planet. (more…)
By Gabriel Vera Lopes on November 14, 2023
Final presidential debate between Sergio Massa and Javier Milei. Photo: Telam
Argentina’s third and final presidential debate was held this past Sunday November 12. The two candidates with the most votes in the general elections, the far-right candidate Javier Milei (Liberty Advances) and the pro-government Sergio Massa (Union for the Homeland), debated for the last time before the vote next Sunday November 19 that will determine who will occupy the Casa Rosada. (more…)