By María Páez Victor on March 29, 2024
President Maduro speaking to supporters after registering his candidacy.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on March 28, 2024
photo weforum
Despite Predictions Latin America Plunges into Poverty and InequalityCalculations and predictions about the economy in the world, is beginning to show its first results for 2024. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts a slight decline in world growth to 2.9%, compared to 3% in 2023, forecasts that, so far, have been met fairly closely. (more…)
By Bhaskar Sunkara
photo: Bill Hackwell
On 6 April 1960, the US diplomat Lester D Mallory wrote a memo advocating an embargo “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. Sixty-four years later and the policy that Cubans call el bloqueo (the blockade) is still in force. (more…)
March 26, 2024
protestors against Kamala Harris take down US flag. photo: Yanina Arias
On Friday, March 22, Kamala Harris marked her first visit to Puerto Rico since becoming Vice President of the United States to attend a Democratic Party fundraiser, and was met with mass protests. (more…)
By Andrés Figueroa Cornejo on March 23, 2024
photo: Andrés Figueroa Cornejo
Along the Alameda, the main artery of Santiago de Chile, and from the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center to Plaza Los Héroes, humanity marched today in solidarity with the cause of the people of Palestine to demand that the Boric administration break diplomatic, commercial and military relations with Israel. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 25, 2024 from Havana
Arlene Rodriguez moderates the first Desde la Presidencia
The Cuban people are not alone. When on March 17, citizens from some areas of Santiago de Cuba took to the streets against the long hours of blackouts and the lack of food in the country, President Miguel Diaz-Canel spoke before the national cameras and assured that their demands, are being heard. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 24, 2024
This week, a new march of indigenous and peasant movements went out from the plains to the cities to condemn the abuses of the government and call for the defense of democracy and food sovereignty. Under heavy rain and with indigenous people and women at the forefront, on March 20 and 21, thousands of compatriots carried out the traditional and thirtieth demonstration of the Peasant, Indigenous and Popular March, with the slogan “For land and production, against all injustices”. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on March 24, 2024 from Buenos Aires
30,000 Alive in Truth! photo: Bill Hackwell
Hundreds of thousands are still in the streets here that lead to the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s presidential palace. Since 2002 March 24, has been officially recognized and referred to as the National Day of Memory marking the beginning of the 1976 military coup that disappeared, tortured and murdered at least 30,000 people. (more…)