By José Luis Méndez Méndez on March 3, 2022
photo: Pedro Portal
In the midst of the usual news generated in the city of Miami, ruled by the bellicose bitconian Mayor Francis Suarez, along with announcing: a man is robbed and shot in a pharmacy; a Florida man is convicted for illegally trafficking turtles and poisonous snakes; a man who killed another in a popcorn case in a Florida movie theater is acquitted, a remake appears: a commission to support a transition to democracy in Cuba is created in Miami. (more…)
March 3, 2022
photo: Latfem, Justice for Berta Cáceres
On January 27th of this year, Xiomara Castro assumed the presidency of Honduras. With a coalition of parties, organizations and social movements, the president faces a seemingly unmanageable number of challenges. Among them, to stop the plundering of the territories and to fulfill the demands that the indigenous peoples and peasants of the Central American nation have had as banners for decades. (more…)
Appeal of the Network in Defense of Humanity on March 1, 2022
The Network in Defense of Humanity welcomes the efforts of dialogue undertaken by the Russian Federation and Ukraine, with the aim of seeking negotiated solutions to a historic conflict, which has worsened over the last eight years and has been intensified by recent events related to the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and demilitarization. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on March 1, 2022
Looking at the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis, the mainstream media, along with analysts and historians, have approached the phenomenon as a new conflict, whose only cause seems to be Russia’s geopolitical interests. However, this approach is not only biased but pays little attention to other important issues that lie behind this historic conflict. (more…)
March 1, 2022
In El Salvador, prosecutors have charged former president Alfredo Cristiani and several ex-military officers for the massacre of six Jesuit priests carried out in 1989 by a US-trained death squad. The priests’ housekeeper and her daughter were also killed. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 1, 2022
students at the University of Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
I’m from the generation that was born in the 1990s. Those were the most difficult times that Cuba experienced since the revolutionary triumph of 1959, led by Fidel. Then, the young people helped pull the island out of a “Special Period” and an unprecedented economic crisis. (more…)
By Noam Chomsky on February 27, 2022
Noam Chomsky, photo: Bill Hackwell
Against decades of prevarication, there is a dramatic illustration of the torture of Cuba over sixty years, including John F. Kennedy’s terrorist war against Cuba, which nearly resulted in nuclear war in 1962 and the crushing blockade, strongly opposed by virtually everyone, including the vast majority of Americans. (more…)
By Carolina Vásquez Araya on February 27, 2022
Ryszard Kapuściński, photo: Marek Billewicz/East News
Nothing is as disturbing as the fact of ignoring everything. “To learn about reality by immersing oneself in it” was the motto of Ryszard Kapuscinski, the great Polish reporter whose time on this planet left deep traces in journalism and in the way of understanding the world. (more…)