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Cuba and China Strengthen Ties through the Belt and Road Strategy

By Alejandra Garcia on October 28, 2021 from Havana

Cuba it should be remembered was the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with China back in 1960. Sixty-one years after that union, both nations continue to collaborate with each other in the fight against hegemonism and unilateralism, the use of force, and violation of international laws. (more…)

Cuba and the Double Standard of Disinformation

By José Manzaneda on October 26, 2021

The latest report of the International Federation of Journalists, which denounces the murder of 65 professionals in 2020, 17 more than the previous year, has hardly gone beyond any agency note. (more…)

Cuba as an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 28, 2021

photo: RT

The piggy bank rang again. Less than a month ago, in September 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded 6 million 669 thousand dollars in grants for projects aimed at “regime change” in Cuba, a euphemism to avoid saying “direct intervention by a foreign power”. (more…)

Duque’s Need to Fuel Tensions with Venezuela

October 23, 2021

Venezuelans in Colombia

The coercive measures imposed by the United States and the “diplomatic siege” instigated by the extinct Lima group have stimulated the emigration of Venezuelans to different Latin American countries. (more…)

“How to Prepare a Coup d’état”; the Latest Recipe of the Peruvian Right-wing Parties

By Marcos Maranges on October 26, 2021

Support of Castillo’s Peru Libre Party. photo: Andrés Bernal

This last week was one of the tensest since Pedro Castillo became Peru’s president last May. The Congress, with a right-wing member’s majority, is eager to disarm the executive branch, so they can technically annul Castillo’s electoral triumph over the extreme right candidate Keiko Fujimori. (more…)

Ecuador: The Economic-Financial Bond of Guillermo Lasso

By Hedelberto López Blanch on October 26, 2021.

Everything seems to indicate that Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, due to his political, economic and financial mistakes, has a noose around his neck which, if tightened, will force him to finish his term of office before the end of his term, as it has happened before with three other presidents of that Andean nation. (more…)

Our America: The Most Unequal

By Pasqualina Curcio on October 25, 2021

Some say that socialism is a failure, that it generates hunger and misery. In contrast, and as part of the hegemonic discourse that has managed to permeate the imagination of billions of people, they say that capitalism is the model to follow. According to them, the latter is successful. (more…)

The Pain of Others

By Carolina Vásquez Araya on October 24, 2021

photo: Bill Hackwell

“When I was born they put two tears in my eyes so that I could see the size of the pain of my people.” (Humberto Ak’abal) (more…)

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