By Ricardo Vaz on August 22, 2024
Photo: TSJ Venezuela/X
Today the Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) has concluded its review of the July 28 presidential elections in the Caribbean country. Venezuela’s maximum judicial authority has now officially ratified President Nicolás Maduro’s victory to secure a third term that will run from January 10, 2025, to January 10, 2031. (more…)
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies on August 21, 2024
DNC delegates unfurl banner during Biden’s speech at the DNC. photo: Esam Boraey
An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates seem to realize that their country is on the brink of direct involvement in major wars with Russia and Iran, either of which could escalate into World War III. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on August 22, 2024
José Chávez Morado (Mexico), Carnival in Huejotzingo, 1939.
Unwilling to accept election results in Venezuela, the OAS, led by the US, passed a resolution essentially asking the country to violate its own election laws. Many countries with supposedly centre-left or left governments have joined the US in proposals that seek to undermine Venezuelan democratic processes, a reflection of the contradictions confronting the current progressive cycle of governments and weakness of the left in Latin America today. (more…)
By Luciana Bertoia on August 20, 2024
Estela de Carlotto demands the expulsion of the six deputies who went to take pictures with those who committed genocide. photo: Guadalupe Lombardo
The President of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto repudiates the government’s decision to eliminate the investigation unit that operated within the Conadi, and says the search for the grandchildren will not stop, and she also affirm that the deputies who went to be photographed with the repressors in prison should be thrown out of Congress. (more…)
August 20, 2024
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today once again reiterated his denunciation of the genocide committed by the Zionist government of Israel against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. (more…)
By David Bacon on August 19, 2024
August 7, 2024, San Francisco CA. – Migrant farmworkers, domestic workers and their supporters march and rally at the Federal Building to call for passage of the Registry Bill, which would allow undocumented people to gain legal immigration status. The march was organized by the Northern California Coalition for Just Immigration Reform. It was the third day of a three day march from Petaluma to San Francisco. Photo: David Bacon
On August 17, a group of committed migrant activists set forth on a three-day march from Silicon Valley to San Francisco, highlighting the choices for progressive candidates in the coming November election. Should their campaigns amplify the hysteria about an immigration “crisis,” or should they speak the truth to the American people about the border and the roots of migration? (more…)
August 18, 2024
photo: Cuba Minrex
The impact of the asphyxiating economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba, and suffered by the Cuban people for more than six decades, was the main denunciation of the member of the Political Bureau of the Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the Third Summit of the Voice of the Global South. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez on August 17, 2024 from Havana
The World Solidarity Day in support of the people of Venezuela for the electoral victory of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, is an act of resistance of the peoples of the world against imperialism. Raising our voices this Saturday from different regions of the world together with the brave people of Venezuela also means fighting for global peace in the fascist-Zionist escalation sponsored by the U.S. government and its allies. (more…)