By Frei Betto on June 20, 2024
Demonstrators are repressed by the police in front of the National Congress of Argentina, in Buenos Aires. Photo: Santiago Sito / Flickr
Liberal democracy has a limit: whenever the accumulation of capital is threatened, democrats retire ballot boxes, tear up constitutions and put troops on the streets. (more…)
Thousands of miles away from the devastation in Gaza, hundreds of Palestinian students are pursuing their dreams in Cuba thanks to scholarships from the island’s government. (more…)
June 18, 2024
Vilma and Fidel, photo: Liborio Noval
On this 17th anniversary of Vilma Espín’s death, we remember her with photos and fragments of the reflection written by Fidel Castro, “Las luchas de Vilma”, at the time of her death: (more…)
June 18, 2024, from La Paz
La Época weekly journal, which specializes in political analysis, accused the United States embassy in Bolivia of promoting a plan to destabilize and cut short the mandate of President Luis Arce. (more…)
By: Javier Dueñas 0n June 16, 2024.
Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez
Men on motorcycles shot at the car in which Sigifredo Márquez Trujillo, father of Francia Márquez, was traveling in Valle del Cauca today.The Presidency of Colombia strongly condemned an attack perpetrated on Sunday (more…)
Por Lallan Schoenstein – 16 de junio de 2024, desde Nueva York
El Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Venezuela, Yván Gil Pinto, con Carlos Ron y Manolo De Los Santos. Foto: Wyatt Souers
El 13 de junio, Yván Gil Pinto, ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Venezuela, habló ante una multitudinaria recepción en el Foro del Pueblo de Nueva York. Manolo de los Santos, director ejecutivo del Foro del Pueblo, dio la bienvenida a Pinto y ayudó a enmarcar la conversación con preguntas capciosas. (more…)
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto with Carlos Ron and Manolo De Los Santos. Photo: Wyatt Souers
On June 13, Yván Gil Pinto, Venezuela’s foreign minister, spoke to a packed reception at the People’s Forum in New York. Manolo de los Santos, the People’s Forum executive director, welcomed Pinto and helped frame the conversation with leading questions.
photo: Ismael Batista Ramírez
An interview with the Director of the Center for Investigations of International Politics (CIPI) José Ramón Cabañas, to the Spanish press outlet El Periódico on June 14, 2024
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