By Carolina Vásquez Araya on June 15, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
Our societies suffer from preventable and treatable diseases. The only thing missing is medicine. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez, Resumen Latinoamericano on June 16, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
When the government of a country with the dimensions of the United States, which to all the inhabitants of the Third World represents the Empire, decides to blockade another country, as it has been doing with Cuba for 60 years, there is no doubt that what it is trying to achieve is to bring it to its knees, to corner it in such a way that it renounces its revolutionary process, to destroy it with a tsunami full force against its entire economic infrastructure. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 15, 2021, from Havana
graphic: Osval
Cuba is once again in the news for its fight against the pandemic. This morning Cuban President Miguel Diaz- Canel released figures from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reporting that 578,835 Cubans, from across the country, are now fully vaccinated against Covid -19 after having received all three doses of either Abdala or Soberana 2. (more…)
By Marc Vandepitte on June 15, 2021
photo: pixabay
Hearing their pledge to donate 1 billion vaccines would almost make you believe the G7 leaders are philanthropists. First, they emptied the whole buffet and now they are giving some crumbs to the poor countries. (more…)
By Ramón Pedregal Casanova on June 14, 2021
At the beginning of May, the Defense of Democracy in the Americas Forum was held in MIAMI-DADE, bringing together former presidents Mauricio Macri (Argentina), Andrés Pastrana (Colombia), Luis Guillermo Solís (Costa Rica), and Osvaldo Hurtado and Lenin Moreno (Ecuador), in addition to other figures of the Latin American ultra-right. (more…)
By Volker Hermsdorf on June 14, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
On Thursday the European Parliament approved a “motion for a resolution on human rights and the political situation in Cuba” by 386 votes in favor, 236 against and 59 abstentions. (more…)
By Fernando Dorado on June 12, 2021
photo: A24
We have characterized the formidable social mobilization that has been developing in Colombia since April 28th of this year (2021) as a social explosion. There have been more than 42 days of marches, sit-ins, rallies, road and highway blockades of diverse nature and impact, where the constant has been violent and criminal repression by the State, and where the support of the population has been majority and visible. (more…)
By Juan Guahán on June 13, 2021
Photo: @PedroCastilloTe
According to news agencies, thousands of members of the peasant patrols, communal organizations for the defense of their territories and born from the will of the neighbors, were preparing their march to Lima. It was at the beginning of the week and they wanted to make sure that the white gentlemen from the coast would not snatch away the electoral victory they were achieving. (more…)