By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 6, 2022
No one doubts that Mark Zuckerberg is making great efforts to reinvent his monopoly. Besieged for years for speculating with Facebook users’ data, (more…)
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis on January 7, 2022
Sometimes, you just have to be patient. Cuba, the Caribbean nation long a thorn in the side of the United States since Fidel Castro took control of the island against U.S. wishes, has managed to get around crippling U.S. sanctions that have rendered the islands economy backwards for over 50 years by signing reconstruction deals with China as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. (more…)
January 6, 2022
For the Haitian people, 2021 ends with a rise in cost of living and including basic necessities, fuel shortages, and lack of access to drinking water. The Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics announced at the end of December that the cost of living was 24.6% higher than in November, and could worsen given the rise in oil prices and the ongoing fuel crisis. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 6, 2022 from Havana
photo: Ismael Francisco
COVID-19 cases are on a concerning rise again on the Caribbean island. We started the year with about 500 cases per day, but in the last 24 hours, more than 1,000 new infections have been registered. The reason is the same as in other countries of the world including in the US where there have been over a million new cases recorded in each of the past few days. (more…)
January 5, 2022
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, in a statement published Wednesday on its Twitter account, has expressed its vehement rejection of the U.S. decision to endorse the extension for one more year, starting January 5, (more…)
By Stansfield Smith on January 6, 2022
During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. US organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th century phenomenon. (more…)
By Tricontinental, Dossier #47 on December 6, 2021
courtesy Tricontinental
As the old world dies, Antonio Gramsci said, it is in the ‘interregnum’ where monsters emerge. The images in New Clothes, Old Threads use satire and mockery to confront the monsters of the emerging fascist and right-wing movements in Latin America. Satire, after all, has been historically used as an art form of resistance to confront fascism. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on January 4, 2022
photo: EPA
On January 4th, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reiterated his decision to give humanitarian asylum to the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The statement came after the United Kingdom High Court agreed to extradite him to the United States. (more…)