By Fernando de la Cuadra on August 10, 2021
tanks “parade” in front of the National Congress. Photo: Pedro França/Agência Senado
There is no longer any doubt that Bolsonaro is plotting a coup in the increasing probable scenario that his chances of being reelected in next year’s elections are very remote. After the successive and innumerable attacks made by Bolsonaro to democratic institutions, nothing indicates that he is going to stop (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on August 11, 2021
image: The Hindu
In what stands out as the second progressive wave of this century for Latin America, the Peru of rural teacher Pedro Castillo, who assumed the presidency on the bicentennial of independence, promises to do its part. (more…)
August 10, 2021
President Biden:
You recently referred to Cuba at a White House saying: ‘I would be prepared to give significant amounts of vaccines if… an international organization would administer those vaccines and do it in a way that average citizens would have access to those vaccines.’ You also called Cuba a ‘failed state’. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 10, 2021 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
President Joe Biden failed to keep the promise he made so many times during his election campaign regarding his Cuba policy. He vowed before millions of U.S. citizens to bring the two peoples closer together, beginning with at least the reestablishment of embassies in their capitals. (more…)
August 10, 2021
Almagro provoked massacres in 2019 coup in Bolivia
The Bolivian government, has through its Foreign Ministry, defended the results of the research analysis conducted by the Deep Tech Lab Research Group of BISITE of the General Foundation of the University of Salamanca – Spain, which ruled out an alleged fraud in the Bolivian elections. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on August 5, 2021
Spanish for progressives divided into two parts
Emblematic of our times, the Berniecrat organization Our Revolution – never remotely revolutionary – has rebranded itself as “pragmatic progressive.” This innovation is based on the realization that progressive reforms will never be enacted unless they are fought for. And, since they are not about to fight President Biden, then it is only programmatic to accept that these reforms won’t happen. (more…)
Interview by Denis Rogatyuk on August 9, 2021
Dec. 2014 Rene Gonzalez and his family after the return of the Cuban 5. photo: Bill Hackwell
René González is one of the Cuban Five, long jailed in the US for their intelligence work combating far-right Miami terrorist groups. He spoke to Jacobin about the blockade and what his trial told him about the US’s concern for human rights in Cuba. (more…)
By Nathália Urban on August 6, 2021
Bolsonaro greets US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
Showing no qualms about supporting Brazil’s far right military-dominated regime, US President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visited the country on Thursday and gave a positive start of an agenda between the United States and Brazil, even though in the past many believed that there must exist an animosity between Bolsonaro and Biden, because of the Bolsonaro clan’s explicit support for Donald Trump. (more…)