By Angel Guerra Cabrera on October 7, 2021
‘The Changes in Cuba are for More Socialism’ photo: Bill Hackwell
Roughly three months ago, on July 11th, the hegemonic media predicted the end of the Cuban Revolution, supposedly overwhelmed by “peaceful” popular protests. In truth, what really happened that day was the withering defeat by the Cuban people of a counterrevolutionary plan that took the United States years of preparation (more…)
By José Steinsleger on October 6, 2021
photo: Mexico gov.
The relaunch of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) [6th Summit, Mexico City, September 18, 2021] after four years of inactivity was possible thanks to the will of a small group of heads of state interested in articulating a continental bloc of integration and cooperation without the United States and Canada (more…)
By Alba Movimientos on October 5, 2021
Montaraz CCS, photo: Bill Hackwell
Ten years ago we gathered in the Ezequiel Zamora Park (or ‘El Calvario’) of Caracas – as part of a public dialogue alongside Commander Hugo Chávez – and began an ongoing process of urban revolution that has allowed the people of Venezuelan to recover previously abandoned or underutilized lands. Today, millions of houses have been built on these lands (more…)
By Nodal on October 4, 2021
photo: EPA/Paolo Aguilar
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced this week the creation of a new Cabinet on Agrarian Development and a set of direct support actions for family farmers within a larger framework he called Peru’s “second agrarian reform” (more…)
By Manuel Humberto Restrepo Dominguez on October 04, 2021
Colombia Protest, photo: Resumen Latinoamericano
At the end of 2016, the prospect of peace generated a furor in the Colombian people who held the widespread belief that, finally, rights and lives would be respected. At an international peace forum (U. Central, the Defense Ministry, Alianza para la Paz, Bogota) Colombia’s Minister of Defense informed the world (more…)
By Pascualina Curcio on October 4, 2021
Tricolor Flowers, photo: Bill Hackwell
During the last 50 years there has been, on average, one natural disaster every day resulting in the deaths of 115 people and losses in the order of US$202 million (also per day). Compared to the five previous decades (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 3, 2021 from Havana
The Malecon, photo: Bill Hackwell
This weekend, for the first time in months, Cuba woke up to the news that the number of people infected with COVID-19 fell below 4,900. The incidence is still very high, but the number is encouraging because it is steadily trending down. (more…)
By Eduardo Paz Rada on September 30, 2021
Bolivian President Luis Arce vs OAS and Almagro
The Bolivian government has become the main promoter of the recovery of the processes of sovereign and emancipatory integration of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the strengthening of common policies among the countries of the region under the postulates of the unity of the Patria Grande (more…)