September 8, 2024
graphic: Vicman, Venezuela News
Yesterday, in the evening hours, the executive vice-president of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, informed that Edmundo González, former opposition presidential candidate, left the country for the Kingdom of Spain after a personal and voluntary request for political asylum. (more…)
September 8, 2024, Santiago de Chile
Impunity Never! photo: Prensa Latina
Thousands of Chileans marched on Sunday to pay homage to the victims of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, on the 51st anniversary of the coup d’état against the Popular Unity Government of former President Salvador Allende. (more…)
By Mariana Bermudez on September 7, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
On September 5, the International Day of Indigenous Women is commemorated with the intention of making visible and sensitizing the population about the problems and inequalities they face every day in their contexts. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 7, 2024
Protest calling for the release of Daniel Jadue. Photo: Jadue Libre campaign
Daniel Jadue, the former mayor of Recoleta (a part of Santiago, Chile), opens the door to his modest home. It is late in the evening. He is as hospitable as ever, despite the fact that he looks tired after his 91 days in captivity at the Capitán Yáber prison annex. (more…)
By Carmen Parejo Rendón on September 7, 2024
University of the Mothers (UNMA) closed by Argentine National Police, photo: X / @PCArgentino
Argentina woke up on September 2 with the University of the Mothers (UNMA) fenced off and surrounded by members of the national police, who prevented workers from accessing the center. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on September 6, 2024 from Havana
Journalist Ignacio Ramonet has sent an open letter to U.S. President Joe Biden, arguing that he should exclude Cuba from the list of States sponsoring terrorism. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 5, 2024 from Mexico City
Mexico City, photos: Alejandra Garcia
On September 1st, the final stretch of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) government began, marked by his sixth and last Government Report. On that Sunday, the city’s transportation became grid locked in the surroundings of the emblematic Zocalo, as thousands of guests and thousands of supporters accompanied his words, delivered where AMLO himself celebrated his victory in the 2018 presidential elections. (more…)
September 5, 2024
Image: EFE
The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) faction, which supports former Bolivian president Evo Morales (2006-2019), decided to “definitively expel” from the party the current president, Luis Arce (photo), and his vice, David Choquehuanca. (more…)