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Unsuspected Argentina: Between Indigenous Revolts in Jujuy and the Emergency Caused by Milei

By Ociel Alí López on August 17, 2023

Controversial  Javier Milei, the ultra-right-winger who won Argentina primaries.

With the latest political and social events that have taken place in Argentina, the world is wondering where the country once called the ‘breadbasket of the world’ is heading. (more…)

What Will Change in Guatemala with the 2023 Presidential Elections?

By Ollantay Itzamnaen on August 16, 2023

an indigenous person carries a landowner on his back.

Two neoliberal social-democratic political parties are vying for the presidency of Guatemala on this Sunday, August 20. Neither of them has a majority in the next Congress of the Republic. Both turn to Washington for political cleansing. (more…)

Cuba: Truths They Want to Hide

By Arthur Gonzalez on August 17, 2023

Like the virus the US blockade isolates. photo: Bill Hackwell

The United States tries to minimize its economic, commercial and financial war established against Cuba since 1959, and with its powerful propaganda machine to make the world and especially the Cuban people believe that the socialist system is the only one responsible for the difficulties and hardships it suffers, hiding the jumble of laws and sanctions applied against the Revolution. (more…)

Cuba-US: The Beauty of Baseball

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 17, 2023

supporters and baseball fans cheer on the Cuban team in Williamsport, PA. photo: Cheryl LaBash

Cuban children traveled for the first time to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to participate in the Little League Baseball World Series, which has been held since 1947 and which was hostage, like so many events in the United States, to the rigors of the Cold War. (more…)

Brazil: João Pedro Stedile Does not Fear Parliamentary Investigation into MST

By Igor Carvalho on August 14, 2023

João Pedro Stedile

On August 15, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) investigating the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) will receive João Pedro Stedile, founder and national leader of the Movement, who will give a testimony to the federal deputies who are part of the commission. (more…)

The Past and Future of Latin America

By Emir Sader on August 15, 2023

Latin America has lived in the 21st century, the most important period of its history, up to the present. After having been the region of the world with the most and the most radical neoliberal governments, the continent has reacted, to the point of becoming the continent with the most anti-neoliberal governments. (more…)

Petro Explains Why Ecuador “Has Surpassed Colombia in Violence”

August 14, 2023

photo: Guillermo Legaria Schweizer

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has shared an analysis on the current situation of the cocaine market structure, warning that this illicit business has moved to Ecuador after its collapse in the US due to the fentanyl boom. (more…)

To Fidel Castro Ruz, on his 97th Birthday

photo: Bill Hackwell

By Ana Hurtado on August 13, 2023

They were big ships and they were loaded with souls. Each one with a story. Hundreds of feelings were taking shelter inside the Atlantic looking for hope; a better life. If they looked into the distance there was only water. The sea.

The same sea that unites and separates us.  The one that brought him to Cuba. The one he made his home. And there Angel took root to life.

There his children were born.  And precisely on a day like today, 97 years ago, Fidel was born. (more…)

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