December 15, 2024
Political prisoner Simón Trinidad (right). Photo: Campaign to Free Simón Trinidad
A few weeks ago, media reports revealed that the government of Gustavo Petro asked President Biden to pardon Simón Trinidad, a former Colombian guerrilla fighter who was sentenced to 60 years in prison in the United States after being captured in Ecuador in 2004 when he was on his way to meet with a United Nations delegate. (more…)
By Becca Renk on December 14, 2024
High school graduation in Nicaragua. photos: Becca Renk
I’m giving my new neighbor Wilmer a ride into town. He’s from the interior of Nicaragua, Siuna. To make conversation, I ask about horses. Wilmer explains to me the attributes of horses versus mules and donkeys, the relative cost of each animal and the cost of breeding a mare with a donkey. (more…)
image: Jorge
By Elson Concepcion Perez on December 12, 2024
US President-elect Donald Trump, faced with the threat of “the end of the dictatorship of the dollar,” announced the imposition of tariffs on the countries belonging to the Brics.
Threat as a policy has been imposed in the governmental lineage of the presidents of the United States when they wage wars or sanction whoever is convenient for them. (more…)
By Alma Muñoz and Néstor Jiménez on December 11, 2024 from Mexico City
Claudia Sheinbaum
In view of the appointment of the next U.S. ambassador to Mexico, retired Colonel Ronald D. Johnson, former CIA officer and former member of special forces of the army, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo assured that “with this ambassador or with others we will defend our sovereignty, our condition of equality and we will collaborate and cooperate in everything that is required, but always in the interest of the people of Mexico and the nation.” (more…)
By Arnold August on December 4, 2024
While genocide is a clear cause of the democrats’ defeat, economic issues are usually mentioned. What lingers behind the significance of the “it’s the economy” narrative? (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 11, 2024
On Tuesday, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected “in the most categorical terms” the so-called “Act to not recognize stolen trademarks in the United States”, recently signed by outgoing President Joe Biden. In yet another further attempt to strengthen the almost century-old blockade, the White House announced this new political move to widen the theft of authentic Cuban trademarks registered in that North American country. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on December 10, 2024 from Buenos Aires
Argentine pensioners protest Milei’s austerity
Today marks one year since the inauguration of President Javier Milei, of the ultra-right alliance La Libertad Avanza (LLA). The situation is worsening and the permanent lying and falsification of data and figures are denounced every day by the alternative press, because the ruler, who considers himself as a “mole infiltrated to destroy the national State from within”, has under his control most of the local mass media, (more…)
By Elson Concepción Pérez on December 9, 2024
Syrian terrorist groups taking over Damascus. Photo via The New Arab
I have read in the media, and in some blogs of the so-called social networks, all kinds of analysis about the Syrian collapse. In some cases they seem to me markedly disqualified by their superficial and absolute subjective judgments on the government of Bashar al-Assad, and also on the confrontation or not with the armed groups that in 13 days occupied power in the Arab country, without much resistance. (more…)