By Ilka Oliva Corado on June 30, 2021|
flavela in Rio de Janeiro. photo: Bill Hackwell
Historically, for the classist and racist society, in the slum all the evils of the world are conjugated, therefore, whoever is from the slums automatically has to be a thief, abuser, extortionist, rapist, murderer and everything that the human mind can think of. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 1, 2021
Supporters of Castillo remain in the street. foto: peru libre
One month after holding the run-off election, Peru still has no President-elect. The winning candidate, leftist Pedro Castillo, hasn’t assumed the country’s leadership yet because the Peruvian right-wing insists that widespread election fraud has taken place, although justice authorities say otherwise. (more…)
By Marina Menéndez Quintero on July 1, 2021.
photo: Juventud Rebelde. cu
The inauguration of the mayors and councilors elected in May initiates the fragmented construction of a new model at the local level, where popular power is forged. (more…)
By José Manzaneda on July 1, 2021
Do you know which are the three countries with the lowest relative number of deaths from Covid-19 in Latin America? The data is provided by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation of the USA and, curiously, it is not headline news. Do you know why? (more…)
By Danny Glover on June 29, 2021
Danny Glover, photo: Bill Hackwell
Imagine a country developing and producing its own Covid-19 vaccines, enough to cover its entire population, but being unable to inoculate everyone because of a syringe shortage. This absurd situation is real, and one that Cuba will soon face. Cuba has already vaccinated about 2 million of its 11 million people, and hopes to have 70 percent of the population vaccinated by August. (more…)
By Jerry Condon on July 1, 2021
photo: Agencia Anadolu
Is the U.S. meddling in the Nicaraguan election?
When Kamala Harris finally traveled to the U.S./Mexico border last week, she met several young women asylum seekers. The vice president likely saw Hondurans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans who were fleeing from violence and extreme poverty. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia, on June 29, 2021 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The pandemic is growing unabated in Cuba amid authorities’ efforts to immunize the population. This Tuesday, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) informed that over 1 million citizens have already received three doses of home-grown vaccines. However, this encouraging news came with another one that has raised all the alarms: in the last 24 hours, Cuba surpassed the 3,000 cases of COVID-19 for the first time in one year. (more…)
By Miguel Necoechea on June 27, 2021
Cristiana Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga Blandon and Juan Sebastián Chamorro
Luis Carrión Cruz, former commander of the Revolution and member of Unamos, the new organization that emerged from the dissolution of the Movimiento Renovador Sandinista, a small dissident group led by the Nicaraguan petty bourgeoisie that won only 6. 4 percent of the votes in the 2006 presidential elections (since than it has no longer participated) is wrong (more…)