August 27, 2022
An oil tanker at the loading terminal of the José Antonio Anzoátegui refinery of Venezuela
Since November 2020, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC) has been in charge of transporting millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil as part of a deal to offset Caracas’ debt to Beijing. This was reported as an exclusive by British news agency Reuters on Friday, August 26, citing three unnamed sources. This agreement is mutually beneficial for both countries but is in clear defiance of US sanctions against Venezuela. (more…)
August 30, 2022
Camilo Guevara
Camilo Guevara March, son of the legendary Cuban-Argentine guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara, who for many years dedicated himself to preserve the memory of his father, from the Center dedicated to the study and dissemination of the thought of the Hero of the Battle of Santa Clara, died yesterday at the age of 60. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on August 28, 2022 from Havana
Abby Martin, photo: Nosdiel Bello
Climate change is an undeniable reality even when some people insist on saying it is not. It is as if it was a problem in the future that should not worry us today because, as we say in my country: “there are no worse blinders than those who do not want to see.” Thirty long years have passed since research and evidence started to come out to prove how real and urgent climate change is. (more…)
August 28, 2022
police attack CFK supporters, photo: Telam
After a day that started with tension, due to the fence erected around the building where Argentina Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) lives by the Buenos Aires government in the early hours, the police repressed hundreds of her supporters with water canons and rubber bullets when they tried to cross the fence at the intersection of Juncal and Uruguay. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on August 26, 2022
supporters of Cristina in the streets, photo: Telam
The prosecutors and judges who intend to politically destroy the current Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, have had their shot backfire. Those who, after years of unsuccessful judicial and media set-ups, sometimes forged in the very same office of the former right-wing president Mauricio Macri, are now asking for 12 years in prison and to perpetually disqualify her from holding public office. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez on August 25, 2022
After four years of a right-wing Bolsonaro government, Brazilians will vote for a new president on 2 October 2022. Former president Lula—currently high in the polls—is confronting an increasingly delirious incumbent, who appears to have threatened violent unconstitutional action should he lose. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 25, 2022
photo/ Abel Padrón Padilla
Cuba is living a tense economic situation, aggravated by frequent blackouts, lack of fuel, medicines, food and other necessities. The best stocked stores in the country are those with values in Freely Convertible Currencies, known as MLC -for its acronym in Spanish- a type of currency that most of the people couldn’t afford until very recently. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on August 19, 2022
The gradual decline of unilateralism, generated by the emergence of a new center of power in Eurasia, explains the growing deterioration of political institutionality within the United States. One of its domestic expressions is the judicialization of electoral competition, aimed at discrediting the person who currently expresses the decomposition of public debate and the proliferation of hate speeches: former President Donald Trump. (more…)