By Marco Teruggi on July 7, 2022
18 days of resistance in the streets.
On Thursday afternoon the indigenous uprising in Ecuador ended. The trucks loaded with people began to leave Quito in caravans and under applause to their respective communities. They did it after 18 days of a national strike in which participated the different indigenous organizations of the country, transporters, popular neighborhoods, all those who came out to protest against the government of Guillermo Lasso. (more…)
By Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad, Manolo De Los Santos on July 9, 2022
photo: Yaimi Ravelo
The United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. (more…)
July 9, 2022
In a new aggressive move against Cuba, the Biden administration today imposed visa restrictions on 28 Cuban officials pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 5377, which suspends non-immigrant entry into the United States of officials and employees of the Cuban government and the Communist Party of Cuba. (more…)
July 7, 2022
An increasing number of Argentinians are holding their savings in Bolivia’s currency (Bolivianos), rather than US dollars, (more…)
By Oto Higuita on June 7, 2022
photo: efe, Maurico Duenas Castanada
A phase of political struggle has ended in Colombia since the electoral triumph of Gustavo Petro as president and Francia Márquez as vice-president, the first non-oligarchic government elected by popular vote in the history of the Republic. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 7, 2022
protesting Meta-Facebook
On July 11, it will be one year since the riots in Cuba that made headlines around the world. Anger flared then with the explosive mix of pandemic effects, Donald Trump’s suffocating sanctions that Joe Biden kept intact in the midst of a global health emergency, the accumulated social problems, the economic crisis, the inclement temperatures in the island summer. The systemic and prolonged attack on the daily life of Cubans paid off and the 48 hours in which acts of vandalism were carried out in several cities of the country generated rivers of ink and the prognosis that the revolution would collapse, sooner rather than later. (more…)
By Cindy Forster on July 7, 2022
Francia Márquez
Gustavo Petro, the progressive who won the presidential race in Colombia on June 19th, said right before the elections that “Sunday’s vote will break down exactly like that of the referendum in support of the Peace Accords,” which lost by a narrow margin in 2016. The referendum won in regions of the country that are historically Black and in cities with the largest Black populations, that chose the option of peace as did the capital, Bogotá. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on July 4, 2022 from Havana
the decline of the US is reflected on the streets of its cities and towns. photo: Bill Hackwell
With a stroke of a pen the majority of the US Supreme Court has just set women’s rights in the United States back 50 years. There is no better example of the degradation that nation suffers. Today it celebrates its independence amidst fireworks and bullets. (more…)