By Carlos Aznárez on August 19, 2021.
Héctor Béjar
The government of Pedro Castillo has suffered its first defeat, by yielding to the pressures of the right-wing coup and the most reactionary sectors of the Armed Forces. The imposition of the resignation of Foreign Minister Héctor Béjar is, without a doubt, an enormous show of weakness and will have consequences in the future. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 19, 2021 from Havana
art: Maisel Lopez
On January 22, 1959, three weeks after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro summoned journalists from throughout the world to thwart a US campaign against the island related to the trials of dictator Fulgencio Batista’s henchmen. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton, on August 18, 2021
No one need look further to explain US and allied foreign policy failures of recent years than the endless corresponding reporting failures of their governments and their media. They deliberately omit fundamental facts, systematically exclude inconvenient witness testimony, never give adequate context and seldom seriously question official data. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 19, 2021
graphic: Cubadebate
Twenty years of lies from Washington, but only 10 days were enough for the Taliban to take control of Afghanistan. Joe Biden has finished it off by stringing together a pathetic excuse, again a lie: “Our mission in Afghanistan was not to build a nation, not to create a united democracy. Our only national interest in Afghanistan has been and continues to be to prevent a terrorist attack on the United States.” (more…)
August 18, 2021
The Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity expresses its solidarity with the former Peruvian Foreign Minister, Dr. Héctor Béjar Rivera, who has recently been the victim of a ferocious attack by the most retrograde forces in Peru that have not yet assimilated the electoral defeat and the first actions of the government presided over by Professor Pedro Castillo. (more…)
By Carlos Aznarez on August 17, 2021
Fracking = Murder, photo: Mapuche Federation of Neuquén
In recent days, fracking in the province of Neuquén has once again become a topic of discussion. Community members of the Mapuche people together with social organizations have carried out roadblocks and blockades, warning about the lack of water and its contamination. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on August 18, 2021
Colombian mercenaries captured in Haiti
Samuel Moncada, Venezuelan ambassador to the UN, condemned before the United Nations Security Council the persistence of “a transnational network of organized crime, made up of Colombian and American mercenaries who have perpetrated acts of terrorism, assassination or attempted assassination, as in Haiti and Venezuela”, (more…)
By Atilio Borón on August 16, 2021
The fall of Kabul at the hands of the Taliban is a milestone marking the end of the global geopolitical transition. The international system underwent significant changes since the end of World War II. (more…)