By Gustavo A Maranges on February 7, 2023
former Ecuador Pres. Rafael Correa and supporters celebrate in Mexico the defeat of Lasso and CREO in regional elections.
Last Sunday, regional elections were held in Ecuador. Thirteen million people were called to elect 5,700 (governors, mayors, counselors, and parish board members) and the seven Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (Citizen Council or CPCCS)’s counselors and their substitutes. In addition, the executive led by Guillermo Lasso submitted eight Constitutional Referendum questions, which were grouped into three topics: security, environment, and the country’s political work. (more…)
By Atilio Borón on February 6, 2023
Reading Mike Pompeo’s memoir – Never Give an Inch – the former CIA Director and Secretary of State in the Trump Administration, I couldn’t help but draw a comparison with the figure and personality traits of another celebrated Italian-American: Al Capone. And not only because of a certain physical resemblance and the common Italian ancestry of both. (more…)
Article and Photographs by David Bacon February 6, 2023
From Diego Rivera’s Paintings to the Fields of California
Lompoc, Calif., 2022-A worker carries a bunch of stock flowers on his shoulder from the field after harvesting them. photo: David Bacon
Along West Ocean Avenue in the summer of 2022, where Lompoc, California’s flower fields meet the edge of town, workers from Oaxaca and Guerrero were harvesting stock flowers. Even far from the rows where they labored, breezes carried the overpowering, almost sickly-sweet fragrance from thousands of blooms. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 5, 2023, from Havana
31st Int. book fair to open in Havana Feb. 9
Cuba and Colombia are once again forging closer ties of brotherhood after the nefarious years of the right-wing Ivan Duque. This week, it was news that the island will dedicate its emblematic Havana International Book Fair to the South American nation as a sign of peace and respect. (more…)
February 4, 2023
On February 4, 1992, Venezuela embarked on the construction of a true democracy and began to develop a revolution, the Bolivarian Revolution. (more…)
February 3, 2023
photo: Ettore Chiereguini / AGIF.
Brazilian authorities have received allegations that at least 30 Yanomami indigenous girls and adolescents have become pregnant in the Amazonian state of Roraima after being raped by illegal miners, who sow terror in Brazil’s largest reserve. (more…)
By Helen Yaffe on February 2, 2023
photo: Ricardo Tamayo
In 2022, an unprecedented number of Cubans arrived in the United States through irregular, or ‘illegal’ channels. Historically the United States has encouraged and weaponized Cuban emigration. Cuban migrants fuel US propaganda about the failure of socialism and about political persecution and the lack of freedom and human rights on the island. (more…)
By Elisa Fuenzalida on February 3, 2023
Image: Jero González (Cuzco, Perú)
The peasant uprising in Peru has achieved what seemed impossible: the left and academia have been left speechless. Or at least it seems so, since their analyses have been silenced under the popular Indigenous clamor, which has organized delegations from the four “suyos” of Peru in “The Taking of Lima,” as the march to the capital has been called. (more…)