By Atilio A. Boron on February 25, 2022
1999, Protest of US-NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, photo: Bill Hackwell
The first article of the United Nations Charter states verbatim that the purpose of that organization is “To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace.” (more…)
Declaration of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba on February 26, 2022
photo: Yaimi Ravelo
The American determination to continue the progressive expansion of NATO towards the borders of the Russian Federation has led to a scenario, with implications of unpredictable scope, that could be avoided. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on February 26, 2022
“Whoever reads bourgeois newspapers becomes blind and deaf”
There are three main senses in which practically no foreign affairs reporting by Western news media and NGOs is ever about the country ostensibly the subject of their reports. First, almost invariably the reporting is so selective and biased as to be in effect a fictional account of some notional place barely recognizable as the country in question. (more…)
By José Manzaneda on February 23, 2022
The European right and ultra-right are, in the old continent, the spearhead of the global anti-Cuba strategy of the US State Department and the Cuban-American Mafia based in the state of Florida. They seek to extend the blockade against Cuba to Europe. (more…)
By Carolina Vásquez Araya on February 22, 2020
photo: Bill Hackwell
While the Giammattei government suffocates justice, the empire is silent. The network woven by the Pact of Corrupts is strong and compact; its operators -political sector, business elite, Army, judicial system and criminal organizations- act in close coordination with the purpose of stifling any attempt to reestablish the rule of law in Guatemala. (more…)
By Isaac Bigio on February 24, 2022
This is a thorough historical background primer of the crisis in Ukraine from a Latin American perspective – Editorial (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on February 23, 2022
This article, written just prior to the Russian military intervention into Ukraine, provides some important background of recent history leading up to the crisis – Editorial (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on February 24, 2022
Cuban children receiving afternoon snack at school. photo: Bill Hackwell
The rising tension in Europe has not distracted President Biden enough to stop thinking for a while about how to keep the United States government’s foot over Cubans’ neck. He recently found time to stop and sign in a few seconds a measure that will affect the lives of 11 million people. (more…)