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Inequality in Vaccines: The Moral Failure of Capitalism

By Pasqualina Curcio on September 27, 2021

In two months 241 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines will expire, not counting the 34 million that have already expired and were discarded in the USA. These 241 million are part of the 1.2 billion doses left over in the US, Canada, UK, Japan and the European Union, which are also about to expire (more…)

Bolivia: Before the UN President Arce Accuses those Responsible for the 2019 Coup

September 24, 2021

Bolivian President Luis Arce, photo: UN

The President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, denounced, before the 76th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), in New York, United States, the coup of November 2019 by the opposition right wing with the support of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), (more…)

Killing of Social Leaders and Human Rights Defenders Continues Unabated in Colombia

September 23, 2021

“They are killing us”. Photo: Colombia Informa

The systematic assassination of social leaders and human rights defenders in Colombia continues unceasingly at a horrifying rate. On average, everyday, at least one violent incident and more than one death is recorded in the South American country. (more…)

Not Even The New York Times Can Ignore Cuba’s Notorious Self-sufficiency in Vaccination against COVID-19

By Yisel González Fuentes on September 26, 2021

Photo: Ariel Cecilio Lemus

A tweet from the Finlay Vaccine Institute brought attention to the fact that “The New York Times recognizes #Cuba as the only country in the world to vaccinate children as young as 2 years old against #COVID19. (more…)

Cuba: Farewell Dear Magali Llort

September 23, 2021

Magali Llort Ruiz, photo: Bill Hackwell

This morning the beloved Magali Llort Ruiz passed away; a Cuban and exemplary revolutionary who was instrumental in one of the longest, most courageous battles of the Cuban Revolution, fighting for the freedom of her son Fernando Gonzalez Llort and his four comrades (more…)

Borders, Blackness, and Empire

By Jemima Pierre on September 22, 2021

Protest for Haiti in San Francisco, photo: Bill Hackwell

The spectacle of violence against Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border needs to be seen in light of ongoing U.S. imperialism in Haiti. (more…)

Cuba Rejects Biden’s Cynicism at the UN

By Alejandra Garcia on September 23, 2021, from Havana

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel

US President Joe Biden did it again. This Tuesday, he took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to label Cuba and other progressive nations as authoritarian and inconsequential to the needs of their people in an attempt to justify the onslaught of sanctions that Washington maintains against the island. (more…)

Venezuelan President Calls for a World Free from Economic Domination of an Empire

September 22, 2021

photo: @CancilleriaVE

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro expressed today that it is urgent for the world to consolidate the construction of a new order of peace, cooperation, dialogue, political, religious, as well as cultural diversity, multilateral and pluricentric, during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly. (more…)

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