August 31, 2024
Honduran President Xiomara Castro. Photo: Xiomara Castro / X
Honduran President Xiomara Castro announced on August 28 that she ordered the suspension of the extradition agreement between her country and the United States. The move was in response to comments made by the US Ambassador to Honduras, Laura Dogu, regarding different high-ranking Honduran officials who had traveled to Venezuela. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on August 31, 2024
Havana, August 31 (RHC)– A shipment of 800 tons of wheat flour — collected by solidarity activists in the U.S. — has arrived in Cuba. The donation will provide bread for millions of people in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Matanzas and Havana. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 30, 2024
Image: Ajijchan.
How long does it take to change a child’s mind? The question was posed by Fidel Castro in December 1999 to psychologists, neuroscientists and pedagogues, when Miami relatives kidnapped the child Elián González, shipwrecked between the borders of Cuba and the US. (more…)
By Fabrizio Casari on August 20, 2024
NGOs, funded by various U.S. devoted themselves for years to organizing opposition to confrontation with the legitimate and democratically elected government.
The new law that will now regulate the activities of non-governmental organizations in Nicaragua, outlining the contours of their functions, is called “Alianza de Asociación” (Partnership Alliance). The new law redefines and specifies their legal nature, pointing out the association with the Nicaraguan State as the only possible contractual form for their work. (more…)
By Frei Betto on August 28, 2024
Frei Betto, photo: Bill Hackwell
Life is the dust that the gale raises in the street and spins out of control in the spiral of bewilderment, always surprising. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on August 29, 2024
illustration: Adán Iglesias Toledo.
Every day it is proven that some characters who have come to power in Latin America under the propagandistic cloak of projecting leftist positions have only been disguised, or rather infiltrated, to favor the United States in its goal of maintaining political and economic control in the region. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, Resumen Latinoamericano on August 29, 2024
George Bush meeting with Maria Corina Machado in the White House. photo: Charles Dharapak/ AP
What drives the main European newspapers, even the “progressive” ones, to strongly support a character like María Corina Machado who, if the old equation between progressivism and leftism is valid, is not progressive at all? (more…)
By Hipolito Rodriguez on August 26, 2024
Elon Musk, source: Ted
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas showed, 60 years ago, how the public sphere or sphere of public opinion was constructed. His analysis played an important role when Germany was debating the possibilities of having a critical press in the face of a polarization that paralyzed or disoriented reflection in public spaces. (more…)