By Jose Luis Granados Ceja on December 14, 2023
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart Irfaan Ali meet to ease tensions
Venezuela and Guyana agreed Thursday to an ongoing direct dialogue between the two countries following a first meeting between their respective leaders in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. (more…)
By Gabriela Cultelli on December 14, 2023
“-Guatemala, to see you lying in the street,
your chest red, one wing broken between death and life!”
-from Guatemalan ballad, by Nicolás Guillén (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 13, 2023 from Havana
The end of 2023 is approaching and while Cuban families prepare to welcome in the New Year, actions are committed to tarnish the celebrations, thus causing pain and death. Cuban authorities foiled a few days ago a plan of terrorist actions by Cubans living in the United States, which would presumably be carried out during the New Year’s holidays. (more…)
December 13, 2023
The Minister of Economy Luis Caputo has provided details of an “economic urgency” package, a euphemism to include adjustment measures, devaluation and inflation increase. Prices skyrocketed before the speech to between 100% and 150%. (more…)
By Iván Restrepo on December 12, 2023
The COP28 in Dubai has concluded. At the beginning of this meeting, in which the international community, experts, environmentalists and companies linked to hydrocarbons participate, António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, was very clear: “We cannot save a burning planet with a hose of fossil fuels”. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 11, 2023
Henry Kissinger, – getty images
Henry Kissinger, who will not rest in peace, proposed in 1976 to bomb Havana, subject the city to a naval blockade and mine Cuba’s ports. He fantasized about it seriously, according to documents declassified almost a decade ago and published by Peter Kornbluh, a researcher at George Washington University’s National Security Archive. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 13, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than any other region, they have expressed their solidarity with Palestine. Most recognize that the partnership between US imperialism and Israeli Zionism applies not only to Palestine, but also to Israel’s role as attendant to US domination in this hemisphere. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on December 10, 2023
Ursula von der Leyen meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu
The genocide of the Palestinian people was recalled several times in the analyses of the Anti-imperialist Congress that closed in Caracas and that had as its theme the contrast between Bolivarianism and Monroism throughout history, that is, in confrontation between the struggle of the peoples for independence and imperialism, in colonial and neocolonial form. (more…)