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Corruption Case against Cristina Fernandez: A Bad Script from the Argentine Right-Wing

By Alejandra Garcia on September 20, 2022

Cristina Fernandez

Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a few days away from surviving death by good fortune, is fighting with all her strength against a fictitious corruption  case conceived and built by the ultra-right wing of her country. Hatred, political persecution, and injustice took her to court this week, where she has been victorious so far. (more…)

Political Cartography of a World in Crisis

Katu Arkonada on September 19, 2022

After 40 years of neoliberal order, the crisis of the world-system and of the capitalist mode of production is deepening. (more…)

Puerto Rico: Bad Bunny’s Video El Apagón is a Blistering Call to Action

By Juan J. Arroyo on September 18, 2022

Bad Bunny, photo: Rolling Stone

Exactly 5 years ago Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico leaving a good portion of the population without power or water for months while exposing the colonial status of this proud island. From Trump tossing a few rolls of paper towels as a graphic symbol of just how much aid would get to the people to today when conditions have not improved for the people under Biden.  Now Puerto Rico face an equally powerful Hurricane Fiona that has slammed into the island and once again the people are flooded and in the dark relying on a dysfunctional price gouging power company called Luma. Here we run an article with powerful voices calling for Puerto Rico for Puerto Ricans! Check out this you tube https://youtu.be/1TCX_Aqzoo4 (more…)

The United States Should Solve its Own Human Rights Problems

September 19, 2022

San Francisco, photo: Bill Hackwell

Today member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, urged the U.S. Government to solve its human rights problems, instead of spending millions of taxpayers’ dollars on misinformation about the situation of children in Cuba. (more…)

Ecuador: Promises that Taste like Lies and the Myth of a False Midas

By Liset García on September 19, 2022

Guillermo Lasso

There is a popular saying in Ecuador, naturalized since current President Guillermo Lasso was Minister of Economy in 1998 and 1999 during Mahuad’s government, that the banker bankrupts everything he touches, like the mythical King Midas, but in the opposite direction. (more…)

Latin America’s White Gold: a Risky Opportunity

By Gustavo A Maranges on September 18, 2022

Lithium field in Bolivia

Lithium is one of the most highly valued metals today and one of the most promising in the future. Its use in the energy sector, in the communications and military industries, has made it the focus of attention of the world powers and the monopolies who lust for it. (more…)

ALBA : The People of the World Support Cuba against the Blockade

September 15, 2022

Sacha Llorenti, photo: EFE

The secretary general of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, affirmed on Thursday that the people of the world support Cuba in its struggle against the economic, commercial and financial blockade. (more…)

Brazil: Black PT Candidate in Mina Gerais Receives Death Threat

By Igor Carvalho on September 16, 2022.

Andréia de Jesus, Photo: William Dias.

“We are going to eliminate you.” The email message received by state Representative Andreia de Jesus , a black woman and Workers Party (PT) candidate for re-election in Minas Gerais, said. In the message sent last Thursday, the attacker, who used an anonymous email address, made a clear reference to former progressive Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco  brutally murdered on March 14, 2018. (more…)

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