By Atilio A. Boron on November 9, 2021
The rigorous commentators of the political process in Nicaragua have not spared any criticism to disqualify yesterday’s electoral process. President Joe Biden was blunt: he said the whole thing was a “pantomime” (more…)
By Rick Sterling on November 10, 2021
Citizens of Juigalpa Nicaragua in line to vote. photo: Rick Sterling
US media and politicians have condemned the November 7 Nicaragua election as a “fraud” and “sham”. On the day of the election, the White House issued a statement saying Nicaragua held a “pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic.” (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 9, 2021
The lower chamber of the Chilean parliament just passed a resolution to impeach President Sebastian Piñera due to his involvement in the global corruption scandal of Pandora Papers. (more…)
By Raúl Alejandro Palmero on November 9, 2021
Preliminary results have given 75% of the votes in Nicaragua’s presidential election on Sunday to Daniel Ortega, legendary commandante of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on November 7, 2021 from Leon, Nicaragua
Nicaraguans leave the election polling station with inked thumbs, showing they have voted. Photo by Roger D. Harris
On the fight down to Nicaragua a few days ago to be one of 225 international official election accompaniers from 27 countries, the expat Nicaraguan woman sitting next to me was hostile to the current Sandinista government. She said there will be an election but no vote, because only one person is on the ballot. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 8, 2021 from Havana
photo; Bill Hackwell
Cuba dawns this morning with a long-awaited joy after a year and a half of pandemic and social estrangement. Finally hundreds of thousands of children, adolescents, and young people return to the classrooms to resume face-to-face teaching. For many, this November 8 seemed like forever in coming. (more…)
By Brett Wilkins on November 2, 2021
While rich country leaders pushed what critics called false capitalist fixes to the climate crisis during Monday’s sessions of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Bolivia’s socialist president warned that true solutions to the planetary emergency require moving beyond capitalism to an “alternative model” that centers living “together in harmony with Mother Earth.”
“The solution to the climate crisis is not going to be achieved with more green capitalism and more global carbon markets.” (more…)
By Atilio Boron on November 6, 2021 from Buenos Aires
Protest against the FTAA at the 2005 IV Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata
On a day like today, but in 2005, the IV Summit of the Americas held in Mar del Plata rejected the U.S. project to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas, the infamous FTAA. With good reason, rivers of ink have been written to extol this enormous achievement of the peoples of our America. (more…)