December 21, 2021
A Speech by Atilio Borón in remembrance of the One Hundred and Ninety-first Anniversary of the Liberator Simón Bolívar’s passage to immortality, on December 17, 1830, celebrated at Rivadavia Park in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, at the foot of the monument to Simón Bolívar. (more…)
By Emir Sader on December 29, 2021
Out with Bolsonaro
The first characteristic of 2021 in Brazil was the reversal of the optimistic expectation of economic reactivation and favorable projection for 2022. Throughout the year, on the contrary, the economic recession consolidated, to the point that the CB had to substantially raise interest rates. (more…)
December 28, 2021
Fifty years ago, when I first gave birth as a young mother, I thought there could be no greater pain, but I soon forgot it as I held my beautiful baby boy in my arms. I named him Julian. (more…)
By Itzamná Ollantay on December 28, 2021.
photo: Bill Hackwell
In the Christmas atmosphere, and the day after the feast of the “Holy Innocents”, the groups that had taken up arms in the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) and the Guatemalan Creole State, after 36 years of “internal war”, signed the firm and lasting Peace Agreements on December 29, 1996. (more…)
By José (Papo) Coss on December 21, 2021
Protest in US against corruption in Puerto Rico, photo: Bill Hackwell
When two decades ago, U.S. Attorney Guillermo Gil, of the U.S. court imposed on Puerto Rico, said that “public corruption responded to the name and surname of the NPP (New Progressive Party),” I wrote that the PDP (Popular Democratic Party) was also part of the political looting. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 26, 2021 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is on its way to having a new Code of Families, in the plural, that guarantees rights for all Cuban society in its diversity. This week, the National Assembly approved the final version of the draft, whose next step will be to undergo a popular referendum in early 2022 after broad public input. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on December 26, 2021 from Havana
Cuba has 3 effective vaccines against Covid with 2 more on the way. photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Just a few days have passed since Argentina and Mexico achieved a very important landmark in the world’s fight against COVID-19. Both countries have been involved in a long race to produce COVID-19 vaccines and they achieved it some months ago, after getting AstraZeneca patent to produce a variation of the original vaccine. (more…)
December 26, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
In an exclusive interview with Al Mayadeen, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro noted that 2021 was the first year in which Venezuela registered economic growth since “the beginning of the criminal imperialist US sanctions,” adding that this growth was the result of Venezuela’s economy which produces food, goods, products, and services. (more…)