October 30, 2021
“For public policies and dignified jobs,” photo: FRENADESO
Since October 27, thousands of Panamanians have been taking to the streets in different parts of the country to protest the increase in fuel prices and the worsening of socio-economic conditions. The protesters are demanding that the government of President Laurentino Cortizo take immediate measures to face rampant inflation, rising unemployment, and deteriorating public services.
On October 27 and 28, different trade unions and members of various social organizations held demonstrations and blocked various roads in several parts of the capital, Panama City, with large protests also being held in Colón. Chilibre, Panama Oeste, Veraguas, and others also registered mobilizations in recent days. Transport services remained affected across the country due to the national strike called by the National Chamber of Transportation (CANATRA) against the fuel price increase. On October 29, hundreds of people once again took to the streets in different parts of the country. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 2, 2021
This coming Sunday, November 7, the Nicaraguan people will go to the polls to decide their nation’s political destiny amid hostilities against the government of President Daniel Ortega, who will seek his third reelection on that date. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on November 2, 2021
Biden and Marc Stanley
The empire has lost all its composure. In a few days it has produced two very disturbing pieces of news, which speak of its sickening pretension to recapture total control of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, taking relations between them and the United States back to the point they were at before the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on October 31, 2021, from Havana
Havana Libre, photo: Ismael Francisco
One of the most popular issues in Cuba right now is the so called November 15th march. However, not everything seems to be exactly clear about it. First of all who are the ones organizing it? And what are their told and real objectives? (more…)
By Ángel Guerra on October 29, 2021
Junior Garcia, photo: Razones de Cuba
The United States mercenary fifth column in Cuba is calling for a “civic” march, supposedly peaceful, for November 15 in several cities of the island. This is another step in the path of the soft coup and regime change that follows the pattern of Gene Sharp’s texts and the US special operations manuals. (more…)
By Carlos Mauricio Ferolla on October 29, 2021
Xiomara-Castro
On November 28 presidential elections will be held in Honduras. The electoral campaign is taking place in a critical context in the Central American country. The pro-government Nasry Asfura and the leader of LIBRE, Xiomara Castro, appear with the possibility of competing head to head for the presidency. (more…)
By Emir Sader on October 30, 2021
The victory of Chavez ushered in a wave of anti neoliberal governments, photo: Bill Hackwell
Since the emergence of anti-neoliberal governments in Latin America, the continent has become the epicenter of the great political struggles of the 21st century and, at the same time, a seesaw, in which governments are installed and defeated, return and experience great instability, some reassert themselves. (more…)
By Rafael Rodrigues da Costa on October 29, 2021.
The economic situation in Brazil and the corruption scandals that surround President Bolsonaro are some of the reasons that he is losing evangelical support. (more…)