July 2, 2022
Some 160 people who had been sleeping for months inside the Jorge Newbery Airport were evicted in a joint operation of national agencies and the Ministry of Human Development and Habitat of the City of Buenos Aires, according to airport sources, while social organizations warned that in the district “there are more and more people who have nowhere to live and who take refuge wherever they can”. (more…)
June 28, 2023
Guantanamo torture prison
The US treatment of the final 30 Guantanamo inmates is “cruel, inhuman, and degrading” with nearly constant surveillance, grueling isolation, and limited family access, UN rights experts said Monday in a report on their first visit to the detention center that still stands as one of the US many disgraceful stains and horrendous acts in history. (more…)
By Sacha Llorenti on June 30, 2023
Evo Morales’s plane forced to land in Austria for fuel.
Those who only read the title of this article may find it overstated or exaggerated. However, remembering 10 years ago an episode that put the whole planet on alert, you will realize that the title is appropriate. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 28, 2023
Abolish the OAS – Peoples Summit in LA, June 2022, photo: Bill Hackwell
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) -attached to the OAS- ignoring the results of the judicial process carried out on the occasion of the events, issued a report where, without providing a single piece of evidence, they have determined that agents of the Cuban government provoked the automobile accident in which Cuban “dissidents” Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas and Harold Cepero Escalante died in the province of Granma. (more…)
By Lucy Pagoada-Quesada on June 29 2023
June 29, 2009, demonstration against US backed coup in Honduras. photo: Bill Hackwell
For some time, I have been listening to a sector, supposedly on the left, say that they do not want European, U.S., Chinese, or Russian empires.
And, to this, I reply that I don’t see the relationship between the four of them. We Latin Americans have a very well-documented history of colonization, exploitation, and occupation with Europeans and North Americans, but not with China and Russia. (more…)
By Katu Arkonada on June 28, 2023
Evo Morales, photo: efe
The popular victory of October 2020, one year after the coup, without any doubt recovered democracy, but not the process of change prior to the 2019 coup d’état. (more…)
June 30, 2023
photo: Pameduam
On Thursday, Bolivian President Luis Arce signed agreements with China’s Citic Guoan and Russia’s Uranium One Group for the application of their Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technologies in two salt flats, with a total investment of US$1.4 billion. (more…)
By Jeff Abbot on June 28, 2023 in Guatemala City
Bernardo Arevalo, the presidential candidate for the Seed Movement, photo: Jeff Abbott/Al Jazeera
There were cheers and tears in the upscale hotel in southeast Guatemala City where the Movimiento Semilla, or Seed Movement, held their election viewing party on Sunday, as the reality set in. (more…)