By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 14, 2022
photo: Enrique Gonzalez
Ernest Hemingway learned in Cuba that the best way to get through a hurricane is to have your ears tuned to a battery-powered radio and keep your hands busy with a bottle of rum and a hammer to nail down doors and windows. The American writer appropriated the typical jargon of Cuban meteorologists and fishermen who speak of “the sea” in the feminine and of the hurricane as a demon or evil sorcerer, and who, when a storm leaves the island, usually say that “it entered in the channel” or that “it crossed the land.” (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on October 13, 2022
photo: Fuser News
A year ago, October 16, the long arm of US extra-territorial judicial overreach abducted Alex Saab and threw him into prison in Miami, where the Venezuelan diplomat has languished ever since. (more…)
By Darío Aranda on October 14, 2022
photo: Nicolas Pousthomis
The denied genocide, the dispossession of land and the struggle of the indigenous communities are the central themes of “Argentina Originaria: genocides, looting and resistance”, a book that traces the continuities of state violence and also gives an account of the defence of territory by the native peoples. (more…)
October 13, 2022
UN Unveils Action Plan to Support Cuba’s Recovery from Hurricane IanThe United Nations presented this Wednesday an action plan for 42 million dollars to support the Cuban authorities to meet the needs of people affected by Hurricane Ian, which affected the west of the country, especially the province of Pinar del Rio, at the end of September. (more…)
By Katu Arkonada on October 13, 2022
Bolsonaro Out!
After 40 years of neoliberal order, the crisis of the world-system and of the capitalist mode of production, is deepening, people in the streets are demanding change, and it is necessary that our governments give a real change, without cynicism or simulations. (more…)
October 13, 2022
Salvador Bahia
Late Wednesday afternoon presidential candidate Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) returned to Salvador for another campaign program. The former president chose the state of Bahia to start a series of activities in the Northeast part of Brazil, a region where he won in all the states in the first round. In Bahia, the Lula won 69.7% of the votes, while Bolsonaro gained 24.3%. Of Bahia’s 417 municipalities, Lula won in 415. (more…)
By Irene León and José Agualsaca on October 11, 2022
flower farmers march in Quito
A neoliberal ‘redesign’ of the State is underway in Ecuador, activated since 2017 through different surreptitious tactics, especially “lawfare”, known for resorting to judicial and media plots as ruses to reverse alternative projects. Also on the scene are different expressions of authoritarianism, which are con-substantial to the pursuit of the neoliberal model, to impose the dominance of the market over the interests of society. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 13, 2022 from Havana
Cuban President Diaz Canel, helps remove Hurricane Ian debris in Pinar del Rio, photo: Alejandro Azcuy Dominguez
Fifteen days after the passage of Hurricane Ian through western Cuba, authorities, technicians, neighbors, and entire communities are continuing to work tirelessly to reestablish the services most demanded by the population, and much remains to be done. This territory is today the epicenter of the recovery efforts amid the devastation and pain. (more…)