By Ollantay Itzamná on August 2, 2023 from Guatemala City
photo: Bill Hackwell
The Emperor of Rome, in order to keep Roman citizens and slaves distracted and demobilised, applied for a long time the imperial policy of “bread and circuses for the people”. These Bacchanalian festivals or circuses lasted up to 100 consecutive days, where lions battled with gladiators, in order to prevent “popular awakening and uprisings”. (more…)
August 1, 2023
More and more evidence is emerging in social networks and other media showing the active participation of mercenaries from Latin American countries and other regions in the armed conflict in Ukraine, where they travel to fight on the side of Kiev. (more…)
By Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on July 31, 2023
graphic: Al Mayadeen
In this exclusive article for Al Mayadeen, the author talks about the “great sin of Cuba”, which consists of the example that emanates from the attitude of its people, leaders, their ideals of sovereignty and the defense of their independence. (more…)
By David Brooks on July 31, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
Good journalism is essential not only to document, narrate and disseminate the events that are part of collective life, but also to raise awareness among the public in order to make them protagonists of their own history. But there are days, weeks, when it seems that the only thing we do – and it is something that has to be done – is to document so much cruelty, injustice and hypocrisy that we end up nurturing disenchantment and despair. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 30, 2023
In the last three years, Cuba and Mexico have become closer than ever before in meaningful ways. The history of brotherhood between the two countries is long-standing. But since the onset of the pandemic, collaboration in the health sector has given new impetus to bilateral relations and the closeness between the two peoples. (more…)
By James Patrick Jordan on July 27, 2023
For years the US government has given the wrong kind of aid to Colombia – billions of dollars for war and repression, and to secure profits for global capitalism. It has made Colombia both a dependent state and a crucially strategic military colony for US imperialism. (more…)
By Manolo de los Santos on July 29, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
Seventy years have passed since Fidel Castro and a daring group of young Cubans launched an assault on the Moncada Barracks in eastern Cuba, aiming to topple the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. Despite the military failure of that attempt, it served as the catalyst for the revolution that has now held power in Cuba for more than 63 years. Today, a new generation of revolutionaries is grappling with the challenges of meeting the needs of the Cuban people while fostering a socialist project within a global economy marked by crisis. They are doing all this under an intense campaign of maximum pressure from the Biden administration. (more…)
July 28, 2023
Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo confirmed the discovery and restitution of the identity of grandson 133. The details of the news, which comes just months before the 40th anniversary of the return of democracy to Argentina, will be given at noon during a conference at the House for Identity of the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos exESMA. (more…)