By Alejandra Garcia on November 22, 2022
Gustavo Petro promised a change, and he is achieving it. One hundred days after his inauguration ceremony in Bogota’s Bolivar Square, the first left-wing president of this Latin American country has managed to implement 50 essential measures to lift Colombians out of endemic poverty and violence. (more…)
By Rubén G. Abelenda on November Nov 21, 2022
In these sad days, as the sixth anniversary of the departure of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution approaches on November 25, I heard an African friend say that he would have given more than 20 years of his life for Fidel Castro to be physically among us today. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on November 20, 2022
On December 18 and 19, Mexico hosted the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC), a global meeting of far-right forces. Thinking about the date, the context, and the participants provide valuable information to elucidate what this meeting was all about. It was not an ordinary or scheduled meeting, but an emergency one after the successive failures of the regional right wing. (more…)
November 20, 2022
Hebe de Bonafini, photo: Bill Hackwell
The president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, died this today at the age of 93 in Argentina. (more…)
By Jacqueline Fowks on November 18, 2022.
Pedro Castillo
The non-stop confrontation between the Peruvian Executive and Legislative Branches, which began in 2016 and has been accentuated since the rural teacher Pedro Castillo assumed the presidency, is growing more and more heated. (more…)
November 19, 2022 from Havana
A new documentary by Resumen Latinoamericano with English subtitles has been released in Cuba, under the theme of the economic, commercial and financial blockade that has been imposed on the Cuban people for 60 years. (more…)
By Leonardo Sakamoto on November 16, 2022
With no enforcement, destruction runs wild – Christian Braga/Greenpeace
Since he lost the election to Lula, Bolsonaro has disappeared, perhaps shredding documents, erasing hard drives, renewing his passport, or analyzing ways to avoid answering for the crimes he committed when he left power. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 17, 2022 from Havana
This Thursday, Cuba’s voice was heard loudly in Europe. Members of the European Parliament (MPEs), based in Brussels, Belgium, along with Belgium-based Cuban representatives, lawmakers, and members of solidarity movements of that continent, stood with the Caribbean island in its call against the inhuman and illegal US blockade. (more…)