By Alejandra Garcia on October 24, 2021
reburial of the victims of the El Mozote Massacre. Photo: Pedro Linger-Gasiglia
In February 1982, a farmer held the US -backed Salvadoran Army responsible for the worst massacre recorded in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on October 24, 2021 from Havana
US protest against the police murder of George Floyd, photo: Crush Rush
In Articles 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on freedom of expression, we are told that it “guarantees as a whole the right to assemble publicly or privately to express, promote, pursue and defend common interests.” Remember that phrase “common interests.” (more…)
October 22, 2021
photo: Marek Studzinski – Pixabay
Without any doubt, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy, and, as a consequence, on the population as a whole. Its appearance accelerated a systemic crisis that was already underway and allowed us to perceive the urgent need of change in the dynamics of the relationships imposed by capitalism. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 20, 2021 from Havana
Cuban youth performing Peter and the Wolf. photo: Bill Hackwell
Every October 20, for almost four decades, Cuba has been marking its National Culture Day as a tribute to the date on which La Bayamesa, our National Anthem, was sung for the first time in Bayamo city, Granma Province. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on October 21, 2021
Since at least the start of the 21st century, if not earlier, two global trends have emerged very clearly. Firstly, increased North American and European aggression overseas has been accompanied by increased economic and political domestic repression in the US itself and its allied countries. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on October 21, 2021
photo: Mario Aguirre Montaldo
This week the Chilean People have been demonstrating in the main cities of the county to demand freedom for those who are still in jail, for the crime of exercising their right to fight for a better country. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on October 21, 2021
Venezuelans call for Alex Saab’s freedom. photo: UM
The arbitrary extradition to the United States by the government of Cape Verde of Venezuelan businessman and diplomat Alex Saab, on October 16, is actually a kidnapping, as accused by the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. (more…)
By Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez on October 18, 2021
All the offensives prepared against Cuba by the Yankee empire, disguised as “free men and women”, is an ambush of provocations infested with rancid coupism and criminal preaching. Nothing new. Old poison in new bottles. (more…)