By Gustavo A Maranges on March 20, 2022
Bolivia’s Former President Evo Morales announced last week he would not claim the compensation granted by the Plurinational Constitutional Court. Evo was banned as a Senate candidate for the province of Cochabamba during October 2020 general elections in the Andean country. (more…)
March 20, 2022
photo: Francisco Froner
Agrarian reform and agroecology were topics discussed during Lula’s visit yesterday to the Eli Vive settlement, belonging to the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), in Londrina (PR), the largest agrarian reform area in a metropolitan region of Brazil. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on March 19, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
It is said that the famous Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén used to tell groups of people who wanted to take a portrait with him to “put on a smart face.” and at the end he would smile and tell them to “go back to the normal position”. The group photo of the so-called Cuban dissidence could imitate that joke (more…)
By Luis Britto García on March 19, 2022
Wars are fought with oil and for oil. The Glasgow Summit’s story ended in nothing, with its promises of zero CO2 emissions -that is, zero hydrocarbons- by 2050. We are now living through a war promoted to prevent Russia from selling Europe the oil, coal, natural gas and fertilizers it needs to survive (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 17, 2022, from Havana
photo: minrex
On March 14, 1892, the front pages of Patria Journal, founded by José Martí in New York amid his efforts to restart Cuba’s independence struggles, were published. The newspaper emerged as a spokesman for “virtuous and founding patriotism”, a weapon in the confrontation with fundamentalists, annexationists, autonomists, and defeatists. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on March 17, 2022
Biden sending weapons, prolonging war
President Joseph Biden is not interested, or seems to be incapable, of pushing for peace in Ukraine, making it even more difficult to reach a ceasefire. To make matters worse, Zelensky is nothing more than a puppet subject to U.S. pressure and that of the neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine, no matter how much they try to sell him to us as a great hero of the homeland. (more…)
By Silvana Melo and Claudia Rafael on March 16, 2022
Cordoba, photo: Bill Hackwell
Seven out of ten children in this wide world of the south see falling on their heads and in their bellies are the fierce splinters of political capitulation to the managers of fallen dreams, to the CEO’s of hunger, to the bosses of the world. Seven out of ten that will be eight when food is abruptly lacking in this country of fertile land with the excuse of a war 14 thousand kilometers away. (more…)
March 16, 2022
We reiterate our condemnation expressed on October 18, 2021 by this Network against the crime of the kidnapping perpetrated by the United States against the person of the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab on Saturday, October 16, 2021 in the Territory of Cape Verde, with the complicity of the authorities of that country. (more…)