July 13, 2023
Guatemalan social organizations urge the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to ignore the judicial resolution against Semilla.
Several social organizations in Guatemala denounced an attempted electoral coup, after the decision of the Public Ministry to suspend the political party Semilla, of candidate Bernardo Arévalo who is the elected candidate to face former first lady Sandra Torres, in the second round of elections. (more…)
By Zoe Alexandra on July 13, 2023
The VI Summit of the Heads of State of CELAC in Mexico in September 2021. The regional integration mechanism has grown in importance in recent years.
On July 17 and 18, heads of state from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) will meet in Brussels, Belgium for the III CELAC-EU Heads of State Summit. (more…)
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba on July 11, 2023
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly rejects the arrival of a nuclear-powered submarine in the Guantanamo Bay on July 5, 2023, that stayed until July 8 at the US military base located there, (more…)
July 10, 2023
Statement by Casa de las Americas
photo: Bill Hackwell
A young man of migrant descent is killed by the police. Thousands of people, outraged, take to the streets. Police repression is unleashed. Buildings and cars are set on fire, and dozens are injured. The number of arrests grows by the hour. France burns. (more…)
By Gabriel Brito of July 7, 2023
Photo: National Health Council
Brazil’s 17th National Health Conference brought a significant portion of the social mobilizations that led to President Lula’s electoral victory to the federal capital Brasilia. It was a rare opportunity to see all, or almost all, the social struggles from different corners of the country in one place. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on July 10, 2023 from Miami
Medical aid for Cuba arrives in Miami. photos: Bill Hackwell
I was part of a team of Cuban solidarity activists who just delivered several tons of medical aid here that was purchased and collected by IFCO Pastors for Peace. The duffel bags with needed pharmaceuticals will be taken to the island with their delegation that is going for the July 26 commemoration (more…)
By Pablo Sepúlveda Allende on July 6, 2023
Salvador Allende with Fidel Castro
We are making an energetic call to both the Board and the workers of the Salvador Allende Museum to retract the grotesque provocation and repair the insolent insult to the image, memory and legacy of Salvador Allende that they are committing (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on July 9, 2023
Corina Machado
Suppose Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, had become jaded with Joe Biden’s irresponsible bluster (calling Xi Jinping a dictator, for example, after Blinken’s trip to “improve” relations with China) and had asked for help from a foreign power, let’s say for example Russia and China, to send a military expedition to the United States or to apply sanctions to this country with the purpose of achieving a “regime change”, i.e. the de facto removal of Biden. What would have happened to her? (more…)