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The Tall Tale: A New Plot by the US Ultra-Right Wing against Cuba

By Randy Alonso Falcón on July 4, 2023

The issue of the existence of one or several Chinese bases in Cuba has become a recurring motif these days for the most retrograde forces in the empire. It is the new way to attack the emerging power, the small rebellious country and the forces of the Democratic Party with the same shot, in the midst of an early election campaign. (more…)

Tens of Thousands Gather at Mexico’s Zócalo Square to Celebrate AMLO’s 5th Anniversary as President

July 3, 2023

250,000 rally in the Mexico City Zocalo for AMLO’s 5th anniversary in office. photo: Morena

Since assuming office, President President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, has taken significant steps in strengthening Mexico’s sovereignty and challenging the hegemony of the United States. His administration has also made enormous strides in uplifting poor and working people in Mexico. (more…)

Not-so-Soft Coups and the Use of Blackouts in Honduras

By Ricardo Arturo Salgado on July 3, 2023

President Xiomara Castro, photo: Rebelion

These days, we are entering a new phase in Honduras in the attempt of the right to provoke a color revolution. (more…)

Argentina: 160 People Sleeping Inside the National Airport Evicted

July 2, 2022

Some 160 people who had been sleeping for months inside the Jorge Newbery Airport were evicted in a joint operation of national agencies and the Ministry of Human Development and Habitat of the City of Buenos Aires, according to airport sources, while social organizations warned that in the district “there are more and more people who have nowhere to live and who take refuge wherever they can”. (more…)

‘Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading’: UN Demands US Shut Down Guantanamo Prison

June 28, 2023

Guantanamo torture prison

The US treatment of the final 30 Guantanamo inmates is “cruel, inhuman, and degrading” with nearly constant surveillance, grueling isolation, and limited family access, UN rights experts said Monday in a report on their first visit to the detention center that still stands as one of the US many disgraceful stains and horrendous acts in history. (more…)

NATO against Evo Morales

By Sacha Llorenti on June 30, 2023

Evo Morales’s plane forced to land in Austria for fuel.

Those who only read the title of this article may find it overstated or exaggerated. However, remembering  10 years ago an episode that put the whole planet on alert, you will realize that the title is appropriate. (more…)

A Malevolent Plan to Justify the Siege against Cuba

By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 28, 2023

Abolish the OAS – Peoples Summit in LA, June 2022, photo: Bill Hackwell

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) -attached to the OAS- ignoring the results of the judicial process carried out on the occasion of the events, issued a report where, without providing a single piece of evidence, they have determined that agents of the Cuban government provoked the automobile accident in which Cuban “dissidents” Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas and Harold Cepero Escalante died in the province of Granma. (more…)

Why Europe, U.S., China and Russia are not the same for Latin America

By Lucy Pagoada-Quesada on June 29 2023

June 29, 2009, demonstration against US backed coup in Honduras. photo: Bill Hackwell

For some time, I have been listening to a sector, supposedly on the left, say that they do not want European, U.S., Chinese, or Russian empires.

And, to this, I reply that I don’t see the relationship between the four of them. We Latin Americans have a very well-documented history of colonization, exploitation, and occupation with Europeans and North Americans, but not with China and Russia. (more…)

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