By Francisco Dominguez on October 3, 2022
Photo: Jonas Duarte
Brazil went to the polls yesterday under unusual political circumstances: Lula, the Workers’ Party (PT) candidate and champion of the poor, confronted an extreme right-winger, racist, misogynist, homophobic, and pro-dictatorship ex-army captain Jair Bolsonaro. Lula won the first round with 48.42% of the vote and looks set to win in the second round. But Bolsonaro, defying polls’ predictions, performed better than expected, scoring 43.2%. (more…)
By Gustavo Maranges and Bill Hackwell on October 2, 2022
The results of the first round of the presidential election in Brazil are coming and without a doubt it is the most anticipated news in Brazil, Latin America and the world too for that matter. Eleven candidates ran, but as everyone knew it was really a battle between the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the current president Jair Bolsonaro. (more…)
This is a reprint of the full-page ad that appeared in the Sunday, October 2, 2022 New York Times
An Urgent Appeal to President Biden
The US sanctions and embargo are preventing Cuba from rebuilding after Hurricane Ian.
The Biden Administration needs to act right now to help the Cuban people. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on September 30, 2022
Hundreds of Cuban doctors worked with their Mexican colleagues in the care of patients with covid-19 in the most dramatic moments of the pandemic. Photo La Jornada
When President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced the agreement with his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel for Cuban doctors to come to Mexico to provide their services an outcry arose. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on September 30, 2022, from Havana
We have all been affected by the impact of Hurricane Ian. The logical irritation of those who have been without electric service for several days is understandable: the loss of food or the crying of a child who cannot sleep due to the heat does not generate calm but rather desperation. But I see people taking advantage of the electrical hardships were suffering from in Cuba to call for violence… from afar. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on September 29, 2022
Lula verses Bolsonaro
Interview with Latin American political scientist and film maker Micaela Ovelar on the current scenario in the South American country and other defining issues ahead of the presidential election (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 29, 2022 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is slowly rising from the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, which left desolate images in the western part of the country. Fallen trees and power lines crossed in the streets are part of the scene of many of the communities that felt the force of its winds, especially Pinar del Río. It is also very common to see the same neighbors cutting down trees with axes in hand, sweeping the streets, piling up the leaves that are already beginning to dry on the pavement. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 29, 2022
A cycle of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and—despite the pandemic—has carried on since then. The core reason for the protest in 2018 was that in March of that year the government of Venezuela—due to the illegal sanctions imposed by the United States—could no longer ship discounted oil to Haiti through the PetroCaribe scheme. Fuel prices soared by up to 50 percent. (more…)