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Cuba: Our Horizon

By Ernesto Estévez Rams on March 30, 2022

Our horizon is not national sovereignty. National sovereignty is a necessary but not sufficient condition. We are not interested in a sovereign and prosperous country for a nova-bourgeois minority, no matter how sovereign it may feel and how willing, if that is possible, to defend national independence. (more…)

What is behind the Migration Issue between Cuba and some Latin American Countries?

Gustavo A Maranges on March 31, 2022

During the last month there has been an increase in the coverage by news agencies on migration issues related to Cuba. One of the facts behind this trend is related to the need for a transit visa for Cubans in Panama and Costa Rica. (more…)

Cuba: The 30th Havana International Book Fair will appear in the Capital’s Neighborhoods this Year

By Yaimi Ravelo on March 30, 2022

photo: Yaimi Ravelo

Havana, March 30 – The call for the 30th Havana International Book Fair 2022 was made official this afternoon at a press conference at the International Press Center (IPC). (more…)

Peru’s Justice Temporarily Suspends Release of Dictator Alberto Fujimori

By Alejandra Garcia on March 31, 2022

Alberto Fujimori

Over the past two weeks, Peru has been reliving a fear from the past with the distinct possibility of seeing Dictator Alberto Fujimori free again. Thirteen days ago, the country’s Constitutional Court reactivated a 2017  humanitarian pardon granted to him because he was now old and ill. (more…)

Some Lessons to Remember On the 40th Anniversary of the Malvinas War

By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein

Cordoba, statue to the 650 Argentine troops killed in the Malvinas War. photo: Bill Hackwell

In 1982 I was in Nicaragua. It was the first years of the Sandinista revolution and I was working in the Army. One day in April, someone whose name I unfortunately could not remember asked me if I was willing to go to the Malvinas to fight alongside the Argentine people in the struggle to recover the islands from British colonial rule. (more…)

American Curios: On the Return

By David Brooks on March 28, 2022

Madeleine Albright, “the cost was worth it”

Joe Biden promised that “America is back”, and well, we must recognize that promises have been kept: the United States is back, and back, and back again. (more…)

New Great Game: Can Venezuela Negotiate an End to Deadly US Sanctions?

By Ramzy Baroud on March 24, 2022

How the tables have turned. A high-level US delegation visited Venezuela on March 5, hoping to repair economic ties with Caracas. Venezuela, one of the world’s poorest countries partly due to US-Western sanctions is, for once, in the driving seat, capable of alleviating an impending US energy crisis if dialogue with Washington continues to move forward. (more…)

Argentina Remembers 46th Anniversary of the US-Backed Military Coup

By Tanya Wadhwa on March 28, 2022

tens of thousands march in Buenos Aires in memory of the coup. Photo: @dicoluciano

On  March 24, on the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, after a pause of two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets across the country to pay homage to the victims of the last military dictatorship. (more…)

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