March 24, 2022
President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen and AMLO
The European Parliament is voicing concern over press freedom and through a resolution, “condemns the frequent attacks on media freedom and journalists” in Mexico—all while Europe itself imposes a general ban on Russian media outlets. (more…)
By Tanya Wadhwa on March 22, 2022
protests against Fujimori’s release
Last week, on March 17, the Constitutional Court of Peru declared the habeas corpus filed by the defense of imprisoned former dictator Alberto Fujimori admissible and reinstated a controversial pardon granted to him by former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (July 2016 – March 2018) in December 2017. (more…)
By Carlos Mauricio Ferolla and Marcelo Depieri on March 23, 2022
photo: ARGmedios
On February 24, war broke out in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army. The war has a global impact on a multipolar international system, hyperconnected and in a critical state, undergoing a process of hegemonic transition from the West to the East. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on March 22, 2022
Book Review: Wild Green Oranges, by Bob Baldock. (Clapton Press, London, 2021, 238 pages)
Wild Green Oranges describes how author Bob Baldock dropped out of college and was at loose ends in 1958. Then he became inspired after a chance viewing of a newsreel. It was about a band of rebels in the remote eastern mountains of Cuba fighting a guerilla war against the US-backed Batista dictatorship. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 22, 2022 from Havana
photo: Getty Images
The events of July 11, 2021, in Cuba were not fortuitous. On that day, a group of Cubans took to the streets of Havana, looking for economic relief amid overwhelming shortages and pandemic asphyxiation. By that time we had been standing in endless lines for over a year to get food or medicines, while carrying a terrible fear of contagion. (more…)
By Sonia Fleury on March 22, 2022.
Marielle Franco
Her assassination four years ago exposed the hijacking of democracy and the presence of militias in the State’s subway. But Marielle Franco’s life became a seed that inspires the hacking of politics, collective mandates and rebellions in the peripheries of Brazilian society. (more…)
By Ignacio Ramonet on March 21, 2022
What new geopolitical world are we in? What planetary consequences is the war in Ukraine having? What is China doing? What is happening with the information and lies about this conflict? What is happening, in particular, with the functioning of the social networks that appeared as the great democratizing platforms to access better quality information? (more…)
By Nicolás Lynch on March 22, 2022
Pedro Castillo
If six weeks ago the conformation of the third cabinet of Pedro Castillo’s government already signaled us the domestication of his government by the neoliberal right, today the reinstatement of the pardon to to the former corrupt president Alberto Fujimori given in 2017 by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski confirms to us this trend of a reactionary capture of what in the beginning was a leftist government. (more…)