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In Venezuela, Peace Counts, Peace is Counted

By Geraldina Colotti, on August 2, 2024 from Caracas

Demonstrators light a fire during a protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on April 20, 2014. photo: Juan Barreto, AFP.

“We have seen the face of fascism, which wants to provoke a bloodbath. We had too much patience with Guaidó in the first part. Now we say to the United States: take your nose out of Venezuela, here the people decide. fascism will not pass!”. (more…)

One-Hundred-Twenty-Three Countries do not Believe Cuba Sponsors Terrorism

August 1, 2024

A declaration signed by 123 countries, issued from the United Nations Human Rights Council, demands the United States remove Cuba from the List of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism, the effects of which reinforce the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US Government. (more…)

Venezuela: Defending Maduro’s Victory is to Oppose Fascism

By Carlos Aznárez, Resumen Latinoamericano, August 1, 2024

“Let them show the records!” has become the buzzword to refer to Venezuela and its recent electoral process. Nothing less could be expected from those who are the supporters, on the right and “left” of a bourgeois-democratic system for which the Bolivarian Revolution has become, for the last 35 years, an enemy to be destroyed. (more…)

Collapsing Empire: The Day Sanctions Died

By Kit Klarenberg on July 31, 2024

illustration: Zeinab El-Hajj

By sanctioning so many countries so readily, the Empire has in effect sanctioned itself – and convinced an ever-increasing number of countries to seek alternative economic and financial structures. (more…)

Hypernormalization

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 1, 2024

…or take the red pill of the rebel. photo: Bill Hackwell

HyperNormalisation (2016), a cult documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis, argues that governments, financiers and technological utopians have given up trying to model the complex “real world” and, instead, have established a simplified “fake world” for the benefit of corporations that thus manage to maintain the stability of neoliberal governments, until one day the bubble bursts, as happened with Lehman Brothers. (more…)

Cuba, the Island of Olympic Champions

By Salim Lamrani on July 30, 2024

Cuban athletes at the opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris

Since the advent of the Revolution in 1959, Cuba has made the development of sport a national priority, becoming a world reference.  (more…)

Venezuela: Why Believe a Coup-plotting Opposition?

July 30, 2024

The Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity rejects the Coup attempts being made and supports peace and the popular will in Venezuela. (more…)

Venezuelans Re-elect Maduro and US Backed Opposition Cries Foul

By Roger Harris on July 29, 2024, from Caracas

Shortly before midnight, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, announced the re-election of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. Like the proverbial boy who cried wolf, the US-backed and funded opposition cried fraud. (more…)

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