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“Keep Fighting”: Leonard Peltier’s Message to Supporters on 48 Years Since Arrest

February 6, 2024

Leonard Peltier has been unjustly imprisoned for 48 years on this day. In this letter, he reflects on the anniversary of his incarceration and calls upon all to “keep fighting”. (more…)

The “Human Rights Industry” and Nicaragua

By John Perry on February 6, 2024

Why do United Nations human rights bodies focus on some countries, but not others? Why do organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International appear to ignore important evidence presented to them? And why do the media repeat stories of human rights abuses without questioning their veracity? (more…)

Colombia: Evo Morales Supports Petro and Accuses U.S. of Judicial Coups in Latin America

February 5, 2024

Evo Morales and Gustavo Petro

Evo Morales has added his support to the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, in the face of an “attempted judicial coup” and has accused the U.S. of promoting these types of judicial coups in Latin America. (more…)

El Salvador: Bukele Reelected Despite Irregularities and Violations to Democracy

By Alejandra Garcia on February 6, 2024

Bukele’s re election celebration

This Sunday, candidate for re-election Nayib Bukele proclaimed himself president of El Salvador with just 30 percent of the votes counted. “This has been an overwhelming victory, in which we have received more than 85% of the votes,” said the president, 42, amid claims of irregularities, violations of democracy, and problems with the vote count. (more…)

Venezuela: After 25 Years the Revolution is Still Standing

By Geraldina Colotti February 5, 2024

Hugo Chávez Frías.

If history is not reduced to a museum, dates and anniversaries remind of the struggle of the oppressed classes, which have built or suffered its courses and resources. If history is not reduced to parody, it celebrates moments and figures who interpreted its meaning by anticipating leaps and ruptures and adds new pages to the book of the future. And new flags are raised. (more…)

Haiti on the Brink

By Kim Ives on February 2, 2024

Demonstrators demanding that Ariel Henry step down skirmished with cops on Jan. 30 in Petit Goâve.

Never have revolutionary conditions in Haiti been so favorable. The government of de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry is completely illegitimate, ineffective, and unpopular. The U.S. empire is preoccupied and overextended in contending with crises in Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, and Yemen. (more…)

Why It Is Necessary to Defend Cubainformación

By José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on February 5, 2024

The current attack against the Spanish based Cubainformacion news service is spreading widely in certain independent media circles but it is practically invisible in the big cartelized media.  Cubainformación is an essential international news service that focuses on the defense of the political and social project of the Cuban Revolution, (more…)

What 62 Years of the Blockade of Cuba Feels Like

By Alejandra Garcia on February 4, 2024 from Havana

photo: Bill Hackwell

The blockade against Cuba is real. It is palpable in the kilometer-long lines of cars that take hours or days in front of the gas stations nationwide, and in the lack of medicines in the national network of pharmacies,  the shortage of medical supplies in hospitals, and the obstacles the country faces to purchase food on the international market. (more…)

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