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…)
By Carlos Fazio on September 5, 2024
Drawing Adán Iglesias Toledo
A little more than a month before the US presidential elections, Venezuela is in a state of relative peace and calm, in spite of the destabilizing attempts of the US, which is ultimately responsible for the sabotage carried out on August 30, (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 5, 2024
Rosa Miriam Elizalde speaking at the Conference at the Vietnam-Cuba Seminar – Socialist Press in Transformation.
Only once, that we know of, has the U.S. government publicly admitted that it has been the one boycotting Cuba’s access to the Internet. In November 2022, the Department of Justice recommended to the Federal Communications Commission the denial of a permit for the island to link to the submarine cable that interconnects Caribbean countries with the American continent. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on September 3, 2024
Alberto Prieto, photo: Bill Hackwell
The president of Casa de las Américas, Abel Prieto, former Minister of Culture of Cuba, reflected on the need to promote and develop an anti-fascist culture and thought in the face of the advance of fascism in Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world. (more…)