By Mauri Balanta Jaramillo and Janvieve Williams Comrie on June 21, 2024
Francia Marquez’s rise to Colombia’s vice presidency has put a target on her back, but she also brings with her hope for a real change in Colombian politics. As in the U.S., Black political power is met with fierce and sometimes violent opposition elsewhere in this region. photo: Bill Hackwell
On June 16, during Father’s Day celebrations, Sigifredo Márquez, father of Colombia’s Vice President Francia Márquez Mina, was attacked, also affecting a 6-year-old minor. This incident underscores the precarious position and constant threats that endanger the lives of Black leaders and communities in Latin America, (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on June 20, 2024
The future is already here: the worst droughts in 50 years in the southern Amazon and record hurricanes and floods in Central America and the Caribbean are the new reality of Latin America. (more…)
By Frei Betto on June 20, 2024
Demonstrators are repressed by the police in front of the National Congress of Argentina, in Buenos Aires. Photo: Santiago Sito / Flickr
Liberal democracy has a limit: whenever the accumulation of capital is threatened, democrats retire ballot boxes, tear up constitutions and put troops on the streets. (more…)
Thousands of miles away from the devastation in Gaza, hundreds of Palestinian students are pursuing their dreams in Cuba thanks to scholarships from the island’s government. (more…)
June 18, 2024
Vilma and Fidel, photo: Liborio Noval
On this 17th anniversary of Vilma Espín’s death, we remember her with photos and fragments of the reflection written by Fidel Castro, “Las luchas de Vilma”, at the time of her death: (more…)
June 18, 2024, from La Paz
La Época weekly journal, which specializes in political analysis, accused the United States embassy in Bolivia of promoting a plan to destabilize and cut short the mandate of President Luis Arce. (more…)
By: Javier Dueñas 0n June 16, 2024.
Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez
Men on motorcycles shot at the car in which Sigifredo Márquez Trujillo, father of Francia Márquez, was traveling in Valle del Cauca today.The Presidency of Colombia strongly condemned an attack perpetrated on Sunday (more…)
Por Lallan Schoenstein – 16 de junio de 2024, desde Nueva York
El Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Venezuela, Yván Gil Pinto, con Carlos Ron y Manolo De Los Santos. Foto: Wyatt Souers
El 13 de junio, Yván Gil Pinto, ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Venezuela, habló ante una multitudinaria recepción en el Foro del Pueblo de Nueva York. Manolo de los Santos, director ejecutivo del Foro del Pueblo, dio la bienvenida a Pinto y ayudó a enmarcar la conversación con preguntas capciosas. (more…)