By Calla Walsh on April 2, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The only criteria to be invited to Biden’s so-called Summit for Democracy last week was to be a lapdog of US imperialism, not to be a real democracy. Instead of uplifting true people’s democracies which have dynamic, mass participation — such as those in Cuba and China — Biden’s summit promoted the overthrow of these governments. (more…)
By José Manzaneda on April 3, 2023
Police attacking demonstrators in France. photo: EPA
300 demonstrations with more than three million people, 500 people arrested in a single day. If it were Cuba, Belarus or China… the headlines would be filled with terms such as “social outburst”, “popular uprising”, “repression”, “regime”…. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on April 3, 2023
illustration: Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica
The United States is the realm of paradoxes: the richest country in the world, but with millions in poverty; the nation capable of sending men into space for long months, but unable to ensure rail transit. Recent news reveals many other contradictions in the mighty nation: (more…)
By John Perry on April 2, 2023
Nicaraguan protester wielding molotov cocktail in 2018 protests. Source: lavenguardia
While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. (more…)
By Helen Yaffe on March 31, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
In January 2023, Dr José Ramón Cabañas travelled to Britain to talk about his book, US-Cuba Relations: The Inside Story of the 2014 Breakthrough. Dr Cabañas was head of Cuba’s US Interests Section on 17 December 2014, when Presidents Raúl Castro and Barack Obama announced rapprochement and the restoration of diplomatic relations. His new book explains the background and significance of this historic moment in international relations. Helen Yaffe caught up with Cabañas in London. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 30, 2023
Guillermo Lasso
Ecuador is on the way to an impeachment trial against its neo liberal president, Guillermo Lasso. This Wednesday, the Constitutional Court listened to the voice of parliamentarians, workers, Indigenous people, and many other citizens of Ecuador and admitted, in part, the demand for an impeachment trial of the banker turned president, Lasso, for the alleged crime of embezzlement. (more…)
By Sergio Ortiz on March 30, 2023
voter views the qualifications of the candidates.
photo: Laura V. Mor
The 11.1 million Cubans have many economic problems, mostly derived from the U.S. blockade criminally imposed 61 years ago. And as they acknowledge, those problems to a lesser extent are the result of mistakes and limitations of their government and of a small portion of their population that, for example, raises prices. (more…)
By Carlos Noriega on March 30, 2023
photo: afp
The right wing tried to prevent the presentation of Amnesty International’s annual report. It did not succeed. A worldwide report that in the case of Peru denounces serious human rights violations -the death of demonstrators by gunshots of the security forces and arbitrary detentions- in the repression of the social protests against the government of Dina Boluarte. (more…)