By Alejandra Garcia on January 4, 2022
Exactly one year ago, Chavismo regained the National Assembly in Venezuela, leaving behind the nefarious wake of the parliament in contempt that was subordinated to the farce of wannabe president, but couldn’t ever be, Juan Guaido. (more…)
By Froilán González García on January 4, 2022
Cuba is strong, we will recover and we will win. photo; Ariel Cecilio Lemus
The difficult and complicated year 2021 came to an end. In Cuba, in addition to the confrontation with the Pandemic, the world economic crisis, the US blockade, which after 63 years was tightened with 243 measures by the Genocidal President. It even increased with new sanctions by his successor (more…)
By Renán Vega Cantor on January 1, 2022
“They are killing us, let the world know it!”
The State and the ruling classes of Colombia, which constitute the counter insurgent power bloc, have made use of a series of fallacies to hide the terrorist nature of the State in this country, consolidated as such for decades. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on January 1, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba has been the heart and beacon of Latin America since the beginning of 1959, when we saw those who some called the bearded “angels” come down from the Sierra Maestra mountain range, who had accomplished the greatest feat in our history, defeating the imperial power in the middle of the 20th century, only 90 miles from its coasts (more…)
December 29, 2021
Today the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, mourned the death of US activist and organizer Chuck Kaufman, who consistently supported social movements in Latin American countries. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Gustavo A. Maranges on December 30, 2021, from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
This 2021 has been the most difficult year for the Cuban people. In addition to the ravages of the blockade, thousands of people died due to the Covid-19. The list was immense, and as the days went by, names became familiar and beloved faces. (more…)
By Emir Sader on 12/30/2021
Vaccination campaign in Manaus photo: Marcely Gomes/Semcom.
Vaccine, that has been the word voted as the most important one of 2021 in Brazil. With good reason. Because there is a strong denialist movement in the world that seeks to oppose science, vaccines, and knowledge. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 30, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean continued in a seamless transition from Trump to Biden, but the terrain over which it operated shifted left. The balance between the US drive to dominate its “backyard” and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, continued to tip portside in 2021 (more…)