By Alejandra Garcia on March 24, 2024
This week, a new march of indigenous and peasant movements went out from the plains to the cities to condemn the abuses of the government and call for the defense of democracy and food sovereignty. Under heavy rain and with indigenous people and women at the forefront, on March 20 and 21, thousands of compatriots carried out the traditional and thirtieth demonstration of the Peasant, Indigenous and Popular March, with the slogan “For land and production, against all injustices”. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on March 24, 2024 from Buenos Aires
30,000 Alive in Truth! photo: Bill Hackwell
Hundreds of thousands are still in the streets here that lead to the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s presidential palace. Since 2002 March 24, has been officially recognized and referred to as the National Day of Memory marking the beginning of the 1976 military coup that disappeared, tortured and murdered at least 30,000 people. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on March 24, 2024
With total cynicism, the U.S. government and its embassy in Havana tried to dissociate themselves from the real and deep causes that led to last Sunday’s popular protests in some Cuban neighborhoods. “The United States is not behind the protests and these accusations are absurd”, said the State Department spokesman, while the diplomatic legation urged the Cuban government to attend to “the legitimate needs of the Cuban people”. (more…)
By Valerio Arcary, Resumen Latinoamericano, March 22, 2024.
Lula
After the summer of 2024, the fate of the coalition government led by Lula remains uncertain. The evolution of the judicial investigations on the coup is cornering bolsonarismo, after the testimonies of the Army and Air Force commanders. But the extreme right maintains a counter-offensive after the neo-fascist avalanche on Paulista Avenue, seeking a position of strength in the streets to influence the Congress. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on March 23, 2024
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In a dispute in which veteran contenders fail to win the approval of majorities, Artificial Intelligence aims to be the real star of the US election show this 2024. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, Resumen Latinoamericano, March 21, 2024.
May 1, 2022, Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is once again in the spotlight, in the center of a media pillory that periodically repeats itself with the same pattern: people protest, socialism has failed, the “dictatorship” does not respect human rights, etcetera. A script that, as historian Ernesto Limia writes in his book “Homeland and Culture in Revolution”, did not begin with the victory of the revolution, on January 1, 1959. (more…)
By Carola Chávez on March 20, 2024
Indigenous people in Delta Amacuro state of Venezuela hold posters that read “Maduro is my candidate” and “Hope is in the streets.” Photo: X/GobLizeta.
At first, Nicolás became my candidate because I knew that Chávez knew. And Chávez told us, in that heartbreaking moment, when we felt the ground opening beneath our feet, that Nicolás was the one who was going to lead us safely through the storm that Chávez did not doubt would come. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on March 19, 2024
Haiti, photo: DW
The zionist genocide of the Palestinian people and the political and socio-economic crisis in Haiti both have their origins in their respective episodes of destructive foreign intervention in the first decades of the last century. Of course, the historical background also has some aspects in common. (more…)