By Carolina Bataier on March 14, 2025 in Sao Paulo
Protestors denounce problems caused by eucalyptus monoculture including aerial spraying of pesticides and concentration of ownership. Photo Grabriela Moncau
A series of actions on Thursday led by women from Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST, in Portuguese) increased the pressure on the Lula government (Workers’ Party) to push agrarian reform policies forward. (more…)
March 15, 2025
On Friday night Cuba was hit by a national blackout at around 8:15 pm. “Apagones” are a daily feature of Cuban life but usually certain areas are hit at a time, but this event affected the entire island at once. The Ministry of Energy and Mines reported that some micro systems were now back up in some provinces. (more…)
March 14, 2025
Milei’s storm troopers attack pensioners
We, the social organizations of the Alba-Movimientos, strongly condemn the brutal repression unleashed by the government of Javier Milei and his Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich against pensioners, football fans and social organizations that mobilized peacefully to reject the neoliberal austerity to which the government of La Libertad Avanza is subjecting the Argentine people. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on March 13, 2025
Notorious military contractor Erik Prince, meeting with Ecuador President Daniel Noboa, son of the richest person in the country.
Ecuador is preparing for the second round of presidential elections, marked by a strong background of drug trafficking violence, especially in the city of Guayaquil. President Daniel Noboa, candidate for reelection, announced that he was entering into a “strategic alliance” with Erik Prince, a controversial figure providing private paramilitary services and founder of the Blackwater firm. (more…)
By Camilo Alejandro on March 14, 2025 from Havana
A hundred and thirty years after the untimely death of Jose Marti, and in the midst of the socioeconomic hardship the Cubans face, his ideas continue to inspire visual artists on the Island.
Hermaiony de la Caridad Villa Machado is one of the most renowned up and coming visual artists in Cuba. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on March 13, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Marco Rubio –Little Marco, as his boss in the White House calls him – is ignored by Trumpian diplomacy, but he has been given the menial task of intensifying the attack on the island where his parents were born as a consolation prize. (more…)
By Bert Wilkinson on March 11, 2025 from Georgetown Guyana
Cuban doctors arrive at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, June 8, 2020, after traveling to Italy to help with the COVID-19 emergency response. Photo: Ismael Francisco -AP
Caribbean leaders are pushing back against a new U.S. policy that aims to crack down on Cuban medical missions, saying that the work of hundreds of Cuban medical staff across the region is essential. (more…)
March 12, 2025
Argentinian soccer fans have organized themselves to march in defense of pensioners this Wednesday in a new protest against the government of Javier Milei over the cuts to pensions. (more…)