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Mexico: More than 3,000 Indigenous People Displaced by Armed Attacks in Chiapas

By Resumen Latinoamericano on December 07, 2024.

photo: Bill Hackwell

Human rights organizations have expressed their “deep concern” about the latest armed attacks in communities in the municipality of Pantelhó, in the Highlands of Chiapas, which have caused forced displacements of over 3,000 of the Tseltal and Tsotsil population, as well as psycho-social impacts, especially on children, due to the generalized “terror”. (more…)

Yamandú Orsi: the History Teacher and Uruguay’s Next President

By Pablo Meriguet on December 9, 2024

Yamandu Orsi

On November 24, the Broad Front won a victory that many assumed was impossible. The old specter of a potentially triumphant right-wing weighed heavily. The alliance between all the right-wing parties in the second round made the center-left foresee a negative outcome. (more…)

Cuba: Symposium on Black Book Ban in the US Addresses need to Rethink History

December 8, 2024

Symposium on the banning of black authors in the US. Photos: Marcelino Vázquez Hernández/ Cubadebate

Attempts to control historical memory and impose a white racist narrative on society were discussed this Friday at Casa de las Americas, in the context of the symposium “Banning Black Books, Silencing Black Voices. Apartheid in the United States”. (more…)

Cuba: Assuming Hard Times with a Permanent Faith in Victory

By Yaima Puig Meneses on December 8, 2024

Meeting with the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution (ACRC) Photo: Estudios Revolución

“Welcome to your Palace, to the Palace of the Revolution, which is the trench and home of those of us who work every day for the work that you and your comrades in struggle brought undefeated to us.” (more…)

With Sorrow and Without Glory

By Atilio Boron on December 8, 2024 from Buenos Aires

US National Anthem sung during the opening of CPAC in Buenos Aires, photo: Juan Mabromata / AFP

The title of this article summarizes with these few words the much publicized meeting of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, which took place in Buenos Aires this past Wednesday. Despite the efforts of the libertarian militancy and the support of the large legion of “ensobrados” that swarm in the media and political spheres, the main hall that was supposed to be filled by the supporters of the “New Order” proposed by the redeemer of the West was barely fifty percent occupied. (more…)

Mexican President Reiterates the Need to Lift Blockade on Cuba

December 3, 2024 from Mexico City

Claudia Scheinbaum, president of Mexico

Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated today the need to lift the economic blockades imposed by the United States on Cuba and Venezuela while speaking of the importance of addressing causes of the migration phenomenon. (more…)

Interview with Historic Activist Palestinian Leila Khaled:  ‘Surrender or Fight’

 By Lorenzo Santiago on December 6, 2024

Leila Kahlid speaking at a recent international solidarity conference with Palestine in Venezuela.

Leila Khaled is a historic activist for the liberation of the Palestinian people. At 80 years old, she continues to be active in promoting international collaboration with political organizations, popular movements and governments to denounce Israeli violence and broaden the struggle for the formation of the Palestinian state. (more…)

Argentina: Tucumán holds First Trial over Child Appropriation during Dictatorship

Buenos Aires Herald on December 3, 2024

Mario Navarro was born in 1976 and raised under a fake identity. His mother is still alive and they met in 2015

Tucumán province’s first trial over a child appropriated during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship kicks off on Tuesday, December 3. The case has Mario Navarro at its center — a man born in captivity in 1976 while his mother was illegally detained. He was stolen from her and raised under a new identity in another province. (more…)

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