March 10, 2023
The ELN and the Government of Colombia, chart peace in Mexico
The government of Colombia and the Army of National Liberation (ELN) signed the Acuerdo de Mexico on March 10 2023, setting a new agenda for peace dialogues in Colombia. This agreement is considered the roadmap toward a covenant among Colombian society that will lead to a great National Agreement and reconciliation, as a result of structural transformations. (more…)
By Bárbara Vasallo on March 12, 2023
Photo: Omara García Mederos/ ACN.
“This will be a Parliament of fewer deputies therefore it touches more responsibility, it will assume in historic moments. For any of us to be elected representative of the people, constitutes true honor,” said Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, in a single sentence. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 12, 2023
University of Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
On March 14 Cuban media will be celebrating the 131st anniversary of Patria, the newspaper founded by the father of Cuba, José Martí in 1892 with the purpose of “gathering and loving, and to live in the passion of truth.” On these dates, the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) and every media outlet in the country take to the streets to hold exhibitions, activities, debates, and tributes to the figures of Cuban journalism. (more…)
By Rodrigo Acuna on March 10, 2023
Pedro Castillo
In the last two months, the political crisis in Peru has regularly made it into the mainstream media. On December 7 of last year, the democratically elected Peruvian president Pedro Castillo was removed from power after he attempted to temporarily suspend Congress hours before his third impeachment hearing. (more…)
By Ben Norton on March 9, 2023
AMLO
Mexico’s leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) gave a fiery speech condemning the US State Department’s “bad habit” of “meddling” in other country’s “internal affairs”. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 8, 2023 in Havana, Photos Bill Hackwell in Buenos Aires
March 8, tens of thousands of mostly young women march in Buenos Aires to demand equality. Photos: Bill Hackwell
On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Co men’s shirt factory in New York City. The owner of the company had locked the door from the outside to prevent the workers, who were all women, from skipping out early. (more…)
By Dubraska Esteves on March 7, 2023
The former president of Ecuador Lenín Moreno confirmed that he will request political asylum in Paraguay in the midst of the legal proceedings opened against him for the “Sinohydro” case. Ecuador’s courts named the former president, his wife, and more than 30 others as perpetrators in a corruption plot that was orchestrated from 2009 to 2018. (more…)
March 7, 2023
El Alto
“El Alto on his feet, never on his knees!” is a slogan that reflects the combative character of the inhabitants of this indigenous Aymara city in Bolivia, which since 2003, has shaped the country’s history. This city led the uprising against the privatization of natural resources in 2003, and then the defense of democracy in the face of the 2019 coup. Both struggles resulted in numerous massacres against those of El Alto who stood up to defend the country. (more…)