By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 21, 2022
Nixon and the Watergate scandal, image: RT
Watergate is systemic. A practice, an institutional manifestation of the American political structure. The famous scandal did not even begin in 1972, 50 years ago, (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on July 19, 2022 from Havana
Tania Urquiza Rodríguez, vice-president of BioCubaFarma. photo: Yaimi Ravelo
The demands of the Cuban population are not few in the face of the shortages caused by the economic crisis that the island is currently going through. (more…)
July 16, 2022
Cuba has ramped up commercial ties with Argentina and Mexico this week as it looks toward Latin America to break out of the blockade imposed by the United States. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on July 19, 2022
Chile is currently going through one of the most important political moments in the last century. While the return to democracy in 1990 was important, the referendum on the new Constitution is meant to erase one of the most nefarious legacies of the dictatorship that is embedded in the current 1980 Constitution. (more…)
By John Perry on July 19, 2022 from Masaya Nicaragua
Masaya on July 19, Photo: John Perry
July 19th is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. But the international media will have it penciled in their diaries for another reason: it’s yet another opportunity to pour scorn on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. (more…)
By Emir Sader on July 16, 2022
The popularity of Evita Peron continues in a new tv mini-series in Argentina. Photo: Bill Hackwell
The bourgeoisie has no heroes, according to Brecht. They have no intention of generating those heroes. They make the official history with their leaders, who have reached governments without arriving as heroes of the country. (more…)
By Ilka Oliva-Corado on July 18, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Guillermina leaves the grocery bags on the table and urgently takes out a plum, washes it and takes a bite, the juice drips from the corner of her lips. She closes her eyes and slowly savors its sweetness as she thanks the hands that cared for her since the seed of the tree was planted. (more…)
By Tanupriya Singh on July 15, 2022
Photo: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia
On July 12, former US National Security advisor John Bolton, admitted on national television that he had helped orchestrate coups in foreign countries. Bolton was speaking to CNN host Jake Tapper amid the hearings in Congress on the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, by supporters of former president Donald Trump. (more…)