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Guatemala:  Motherhood Should not be Part of a Girl’s Childhood

By Carolina Vásquez Araya on September 5, 2021

photo: Bill Hackwell

One of the most devastating consequences of the helplessness of girls in our countries is early motherhood. In Guatemala, for example, the number of pregnancies and births at an early age is frightening. (more…)

Venezuela on the Road to Political Consensus

By Alejandra Garcia on September 5, 2021

Maduro speaks about the negotiations with Venezolana de Televisión

As of September 3, the government of President Nicolás Maduro has resumed talks with the Venezuelan opposition to reach a consensus, demand an end to the sanctions imposed by the United States and other Western powers, establish an electoral timetable and build a Venezuela for all. (more…)

Cuba: The Island at the Center of the Conspiracy an Interview with Ramón Labañino

By Cris González on September3, 2021

photo: Cris González

With a degree in Economics from the University of Havana, Ramón Labañino is one of the five heroes who in the late 80s and early 90s infiltrated anti-Cuban organizations in the United States to detect and prevent terrorist attacks against the Revolution. (more…)

Nicaragua: Falling in Love with Your Community

By Massiel Luna Delgado on August 28 2021

community construction in Managua. Photo: La Voz del Sandinismo

Today’s world is complex and messed up. All the suffering among the great majorities for many people is just one more number while an increasing number of human beings are or feel isolated, depressed and alone, burdened down by the social consequences of decadent capitalism. (more…)

Brazil: On the Road to Dictatorship?

By Frei Betto on September 1, 2021

Where there is smoke, there is fire, goes the popular saying. Most Brazilians and world public opinion know that Brazil is governed by a man of fascist convictions. Bolsonaro always praises the torturers of the military dictatorship implanted in Brazil in 1964 and regrets that “at least 30,000 subversives” have not been shot. (more…)

The Money that Never Arrives in Cuba

By  Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 4, 2021

photo: Bill Hackwell

With the money she earns cleaning houses in the morning and an office at night, Virgen Elena Pupo, a 47-year-old Cuban migrant, has managed to raise her family in Washington, D.C., but has not been able to help her parents in Holguín, Cuba. She is separated from her parents by more than 1,246 miles. (more…)

Murders of Indigenous People in Brazil Increase 22% in Ten Years

By Cristiane Sampaio on September 1, 2021

photo: Patrick Raynaud, fotos Públicas

The percentage of indigenous people murdered in Brazil jumped 22% over the decade from 2009 to 2019. A total of 2,074 indigenous lives makes part of the statistic, released on Tuesday by the Atlas of Violence 2021. (more…)

What’s Going On with the Supply of Sputnik V in Venezuela?

August 31, 2021

photo: Juan Ignacio Roncoroni / EPA

In Venezuela and much of the world there have been questions about access to covid-19 vaccines, with hoarding by the richest countries undermining the chances of the rest of the planet to get immunized. (more…)

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