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Frei Betto: I Made it to 80!

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…)

Latin America: Leftists or Right-wingers in Camouflage

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…)

Venezuela: The European Press at the Service of the coup-plotter Machado

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…)

Elon Musk and the Manipulation of Public Opinion

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…)

Argentina: An Education Model that Bets on Ignorance

By Eugenio Montesino, on August 22, 2024

Javier Milei’s government is de funding public education.

The current reduction of funding for university education is part of a model that despises knowledge and promotes labor precariousness, stripping the country of its scientific and cultural potential. (more…)

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel: The Venezuelan People Voted with Full Awareness and in Favor of Dignity

Edited by Ed Newman on August 27, 2024

President Miguel Diaz Canel

Address by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel at the XI Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) / held virtually on August 26, 2024  (more…)

Renowned Hacker Claims Responsibility for Cyber-Attack against Venezuela and CNE

by Ana Perdigón on August 24, 2024

The renowned cybercriminal known as ASTRA has confessed to having participated in the hacking of the National Electoral Council (CNE) and in multiple cyber attacks against Venezuela, in order to destabilize the government of President Nicolás Maduro. (more…)

AMLO and Sheinbaum Rebuke US Ambassador after Judicial Reform Criticism

August 23, 2024

The president characterized Salazar’s criticism of his judicial reform proposal as “imprudent” and disrespectful. (Lopezobrador.org.mx)

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador rebuked United States Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar on Friday, asserting that the diplomat’s statement on the federal government’s judicial reform proposal was “unfortunate, imprudent” and demonstrated a “lack of respect.” (more…)

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