By Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez on January 24, 2023 from Buenos Aires
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, photo presidencia
Dear President Alberto Fernández:
Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government and other heads of delegation:
Dear Latin American and Caribbean friends:
Returning to Buenos Aires for this meeting of nations is a cause for joy, even more so after the days of collective euphoria that overflowed its enormous avenues for a triumph that we feel as our own in Latin America and the Caribbean. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 24, 2023
Maduro addresses thousands of Venezuelans on day of democracy.
“As of today, every January 23 we will commemorate the victory of the people of Venezuela against Yankee imperialism and its defeated coup d’état,” Nicolás Maduro said Monday to a rally of people who gathered to demand an end of sanctions imposed by the United States and for bringing to justice those who plundered the country’s funds for their own benefit. (more…)
By Atilio Borón on January 23, 2023
Last Monday, January 16, the World Economic Forum met in Davos. This is the 53rd meeting of the world’s economic and political elite, or what Fidel more appropriately called the “imperial bourgeoisie”. Unlike the vast majority of the world’s population, exploited and oppressed by capitalism, which fails to create a Davos-type structure to coordinate the great struggles of our time, the right wing knows and appreciates very well the virtues of a world organization and the design of global strategies of intervention. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on January 23, 2023
Latin America and the Caribbean have lived centuries of hard shaping of their regional identity, battling between the appetites of colonial and imperial powers and their legitimate aspirations for independence and unity. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on January 23, 2023
Lula
Several changes in the leadership of the Brazilian security forces’ were confirmed this weekend arousing great interest around not just Brazil but internationally as well. The strong shakeup in 18 different departments by the recently elected government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is meant to be enormous. (more…)
By Adalberto Santana on January 17, 2023
streets of Lima, photo: AA
It would seem that, at present, right-wing expressions in Latin America and the Caribbean have rebounded. This statement could be inferred from the most recent events that have taken place in some countries of the region at the beginning of 2023, as it happened in Brazil with the failed coup d’état against President Lula da Silva, or in the violent protests of the Bolivian right wing in Santa Cruz against the government of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS). (more…)
January 21, 2023
photo: Nathan Posner, Anadolu Agency
The ‘Belmarsh Tribunal’, made up of a group of legal experts and supporters of Julian Assange, whose meeting was held Friday in Washington D.C., lashed out at U.S. President Joe Biden, reproaching his hypocrisy as the White House continues to seek to extradite the WikiLeaks co-founder from the United Kingdom. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 19, 2023
17 dead in Juliaca
Today protestors against Peru’s unelected president, Dina Boluarte, began flooding into Lima after a month and a half of social unrest that has left more than 50 dead, mainly at the hands of police forces. The demonstrators, mostly farmers from the south of the country, spent the night on some university campuses and intend to march to the center of the capital while the state agents are trying to encircle their perimeter. (more…)