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US Criminal Plans against Venezuela Fail Again

By Alejandra Garcia on January 25, 2024

Bolivarian National Armed Forces, photo: Bill Hackwell

The destabilization, invasions, coups, and assassinations in those Latin American countries that are inconvenient for the US hegemony have a common instigator: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Agency’s interventions in Latin America in the past decades are well known. But what has happened in recent days? (more…)

Europe: Growing Fascism in EU Countries

By Geraldina Colotti on January 25, 2024

Matteo Salvini, of Italy’s right-wing Lega party

Last December, in Germany, a plan to overthrow not only the government but the entire institutional system was foiled. A European reedition (in an ultra-reduced form) of what Trump tried in the United States or Bolsonaro in Brazil, and which ended with a score of arrests, and two others carried out in Austria and Italy. (more…)

Argentina: More than a Million and a Half People Hit the Streets against Milei’s “Adjustment”

By Resumen Latinoamericano, January 25, 2024.

The general strike against the austerity measures and the Omnibus Law was strongly felt throughout the country yesterday.  Although the mobilization had its epicenter in the Capital, in the main cities of the interior there were massive protests as well. According to Tiempo Argentino over a million and a half people filled the streets of the country. (more…)

A List that Does not Match the Truth

By Juana Carrasco Martín on January 22, 2024

protest at the White House calling to take Cuba off the List. photo: Bill Hackwell

The United States is rife with paradoxes and this is one of them. On January 11, 2021, a few days away from ceasing to be president of the powerful nation -reluctantly and not without trying with his fanatics to reverse the electoral process won by Joseph Biden-, Donald Trump took a low blow and put the name of Cuba in a counterfactual list of countries sponsoring terrorism (SSOT). (more…)

Argentina: The Homeland Is Not For Sale

By Stella Calloni on January 24, 2024

Jan. 24 -Massive turnout against Milei and the DNU in Buenos Aires

Faced with a scenario like the current one when authoritarianism tries to impose itself in Argentina with all its nuances behind the offer of a “freedom” that ceased to exist with the illegal imposition of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) and an omnibus law, designed to suspend the Congress of the nation, install a de facto government, repealing constitutional norms, (more…)

Thinking for Cuba

By José Ernesto Nováez on January 19, 2024

photo: Lady Rene Perez

Thinking about Cuba today is not equivalent to thinking about any other latitude. Cuba is a small Caribbean island that for 65 years has been trying to build an alternative economic, political and social system to the prevailing international order. (more…)

Fantasies and Lies of a Winter Afternoon in Washington DC

By Johana Tablada on January 21, 2024 from Havana

Cuban-born journalist Maria Elvira Salazar. Photo: Scoop

The hearing held last week on January 18 in the U.S. House of Representatives’ Western Hemisphere subcommittee was a useful scenario to understand the circus of anti-Cuba policy. (more…)

Argentina: Milei’s Blitzkrieg and the Unconstitutional Plan

By Maria Fernanda de la Quintana on January 23, 2024.

The rush to violate the Argentine Constitution and constitutional guarantees is part of a deliberately executed plan to carry out the biggest plundering of resources transfer while implementing a model of famine. (more…)

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