By Emir Sader on July 6, 2021
The new strategy of the Latin American right wing is to sabotage liberal democracy from within. This is how it corrupted democracy in Brazil and threw the country into the worst crisis in its history, paid for not only with hunger and poverty, but also with more than 500,000 dead. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 6, 2021 from Havana
Hurricane season begins in Cuba. photo: Bill Hackwell
Tropical Storm Elsa is no longer a danger to Cuba. At this hour, only light rain is falling over Havana, caused by the feeder bands of the meteorological phenomenon that is already advancing towards the US, in particular Florida. (more…)
July 5, 2021.
Berta Cáceres, photo credit: Goldman Environmental Prize.
A Sentencing Court with National Jurisdiction found hydroelectric company executive Roberto David Castillo Mejía guilty as a co-perpetrator for the 2016 murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres in western Honduras. (more…)
July 5, 2021
photo: Juan Díaz, Misión Verdad
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) began to expand in the context of the Cold War and the globalization of neo-liberalism, accustomed to operate as political parties but protected under the legal and supposedly impartial cloak they hold. (more…)
By Tim Anderson on July 1, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
“The trees must form ranks to keep the giant with seven-league boots from passing! It is the time of mobilization” – José Marti (more…)
July 4, 2021
Elisa Loncon photo: agencia uno
Today a march in support of the installation of the Constitutional Convention (CC) that is set to draft Chile’s new Constitution was attacked by the Carbineros, the brutal military police founded by Pinochet, firing tear gas in downtown Santiago as the session was about to begin. (more…)
July 2, 2021
Duque and US Southern Commander Craig Faller,
Colombia’s role in the already permanent regime change operation against Venezuela is broad and eloquent. Some recent events in that country may be worthy of attention and analysis, however, all that would go through a series of questions that help to clarify what is behind these events and where they are headed. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on July 1, 2021
‘I Have Seen’ painting: Raúl Martínez
In 1869, at the age of fifteen, José Martí and his young friends published a magazine in Cuba called La Patria Libre (‘The Free Homeland’), which adopted a strong position against Spanish imperialism. The first and only issue of the magazine carried Martí’s poem, ‘Abdala’. (more…)