By Netfa Freeman on August 25, 2021
There is a page in the playbook for U.S. imperialist regime change in Latin America that includes exploiting the identity politics of Blackness. A recent example was the unrest in Cuba a month ago that included a sophisticated attempt to paint the Cuban revolution, its government, and anyone in solidarity with it, as ignoring the interests of Afro-Cubans. (more…)
By Tanya Wadhwa on August 24, 2021
photo: Granma
The Global COVID-19 vaccine inequity gap is large and continues to grow. Low income and lower middle income countries are lagging far behind in inoculating their populations as compared to high income countries. (more…)
By Gabriel Vera Lopes on August 20, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
On August 13, a new round of negotiations began between the Venezuelan government and part of the opposition, which had been refusing to participate in the electoral elections or to recognize Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate elected president. (more…)
August 22, 2021
In Peru a coup d’état is underway against the government of Professor Pedro Castillo. From ALBA Movimientos and from every corner of the Patria Grande we denounce the Peruvian right wing and its insistence on ignoring the popular majorities of this brother country. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on August 23, 2021
US Internet Policy towards Cuba
On Friday, July 16, on the White House lawn and before boarding the helicopter to his Camp David residence, Joe Biden told CNN that “disinformation on the networks is killing us”. In particular, the President of the United States was referring to the publications on the digital network Facebook against the vaccinations against COVID-19 and accused that company of doing nothing to prevent them. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 22, 2021, from Havana
Cuban doctors helping quake victims in Haiti
Nature once again took its toll on Haiti. On August 14, the most impoverished country in Latin America registered a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that as of the latest count has left over 2,000 people dead and 10,000 injured. (more…)
By Daniel Giovanaz and Pedro Stropasolas on August 19, 2021
Jaqueline Félix and her son. photo: Pedro Stropasolas
The abandonment of policies to combat poverty has put Brazil on the path back to the United Nations Hunger Map. While the UN has officially not included the country in the map, Brazil is already performing poorly in several food security indices. (more…)
August 21, 2021
Senkata and Sacaba, “it’s not revenge, it’s justice” photo: @LuchoxBolivia
BOLIVIAN INFORMATION AGENCY (ABI). – In response to a complaint from the victims of the Senkata and Sacaba massacres, the State Attorney General’s Office accused Jeanine Añez Chávez for the crime of genocide, which has a prison sentence of up to 30 years, (more…)