By Dario Pignotti on January 4, 2023
Marielle Franco
While Lula participated in Pele’s funeral in the interior of Sao Paulo, his ministers were implementing the main programs of the new government. On Tuesday, the head of Human Rights, the black philosopher Silvio Almeida, took office, promising to revoke all Bolsonaro’s decrees that incite discrimination and hatred. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on January 4, 2023
The massive and emotional inauguration of Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva in Brazil, on the first day of the year, and the announcement in Colombia of the beginning of a ceasefire with five armed organizations in that country is the news that illuminates with hope the beginning of the year in Latin America and the Caribbean. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 3, 2023
Lula inaugurated by ordinary Brazilians. photo: Lela-Beltrao
Inequality, prejudice, racism. These were the words most often used by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to describe the condition he is receiving of his country after four years of the nefarious Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil is in pain. It doesn’t forget the hundreds of thousands of deaths left by the Covid-19 and the mismanagement of the former government, nor the high rates of poverty and violence that skyrocketed since 2019. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on January 1, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The people of Cuba enter 2023 celebrating the 64th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. How can the singular meaning, the seminal nature, the effervescent history of the Cuban Revolution be sufficiently encapsulated? (more…)
unofficial transcription of opening remarks by Yuri Gala Lopez, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations at the 2022 National Network on Cuba Fall Meeting in New York City.
Ambassador Yuri Gala Lopez speaking in the NNOC meeting in NYC photo: Bill Hackwell
Let me start by referring to the historic dynamics of this inclusion of Cuba in the US’s State Sponsor of Terrorism like list of. Obviously, this is not the first time Cuba has been on that list. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on January 1, 2023
Luis Camacho
2022 ended in Bolivia with a complex political scenario. On December 28, National Police forces arrested Santa Cruz Province governor Luis Fernando Camacho after an arrest warrant was issued against him almost two months ago, based on his direct involvement of the 2019 coup d’état. He is also at least partially responsible for the Sacaba and Senkata massacres, where law enforcement officers killed 20 Bolivians by gunshots. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 30, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. This imperial fiat arrogates to the US the unilateral authority to intervene in the affairs of sovereign states in the Western Hemisphere and to exclude any other power from meddling in what is viewed as Washington’s backyard. Two centuries later, the doctrine faces a fragile future. (more…)
By Carlos Fazio on December 31, 2022
photo: El Pais
Since last December 7, a military-parliamentary dictatorship has been consolidating in Peru, using as its “institutional” façade the former Vice-President Dina Boluarte, who betrayed the ousted President Pedro Castillo and became a hostage of the army, Fujimorism and the racist and classist Lima oligarchy at the service of the large international extractivist corporations. (more…)