By Tanya Núñez on October 4, 2024
FARC leader Ricardo Palmera, better known as Simón Trinidad, brought to Bogota, Colombia after his capture in Ecuador, January 2004. Photo: Miguel Menéndez/EPA/Corbis/file photo.
Many believe that Ricardo Palmera, better known by his nom de guerre, Simón Trinidad, can play a key role in achieving peace in Colombia, a country devastated by centuries of social, political, and armed conflict. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on October 4, 2024
The center of Buenos Aires was completely full with protesters calling on Javier Milei to approve the Financing Law. Photo: CONADU
On October 2, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Argentina to demand that Javier Milei’s neoliberal government cease its attempts to defund public university education. It was the largest protest to date against Milei’s harsh neoliberal measures, yet the libertarian head of state refused to budge. (more…)
October 5, 2024
Far-right Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado and former presidential candidate Edmundo González waving at supporters. Photo: X/@EdmundoGU.
María Corina Machado has not made any public appearances for almost 40 days. After ambivalent statements about her “clandestinity,” she has been accused of preparing to leave the country. She insists she is in Venezuela but has not given any proof of this. She affirms, as did Edmundo González when he was applying for asylum in Spain, that she will not leave the country. (more…)
A Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Relations on October 4, 2024
Cuban Embassy in Washington DC on the night of the attack. photo: Cubadebate
The Ministry of Foreign Relations of Cuba vigorously repudiates a new act of complicity of the United States with terrorist violence against Cuba. (more…)
By José Luis Méndez Méndez on October 6, 2024
family members of those murdered in the bombing of the Cuban airliner. photo: Bill Hackwell
Almost half a century has passed since an avoidable crime went unpunished, and even with a long judicial process for more than eleven years in the Venezuelan justice system, justice was not brought to the 73 people who perished in the mid-air bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner off the coast of Barbados on October 6, 1976. For the Cuban people it remains an historical memory of pain that will never go away. (more…)
October 2, 2024
Greetings All,
photo: Bill Hackwell
On this Wrongful Conviction Day, Leonard Peltier, the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner, is incarcerated in lockdown-modified operations conditions at USP Coleman I, operated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). (more…)
By Atilio Boron on October 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum
The powerful could not with AMLO, who took away many of their privileges and began to put an end to the plunder they had exercised for more than a century. Nor will they be able to with Claudia Sheinbaum. (more…)
By Ana Perdigón on October 2, 2024
Robert Serra, photo: Bill Hackwell
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has stated that the former president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, had hired a group of hitmen to assassinate the late Chavista revolutionary leader, Robert Serra. (more…)