By Teresa Melo on May 22, 2021
Gerardo Hernandez
He wasn’t talking about unknown themes or topics chosen on a whim. Every word is backed up by his unquestionable personal experience. The conversation, with the background of the city and the sea, and with a person who listens to a neighbor, a godfather, a ballplayer, a young woman student, a hopeful child … let’s just say – to the people. (more…)
By Rohan Rice on May 23, 2021
Vaccinating against Covid in Nicaragua, Photo: CCC Jairo Cajina
Little attention has been paid internationally to how the Central American country of Nicaragua has managed to keep COVID-19 cases and fatalities low even under a devastating campaign of US sanctions. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on May 21, 2021
Caracas protest against the arrest of Alex Saab.
The case of Alex Saab raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions. This is according to Montréal-based international human rights lawyer John Philpot. He spoke on May 19 at a webinar sponsored by the Alliance for Global Justice and other groups about this example of the long reach of the US empire enforcing its deadly sanctions on some one third of humanity. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez and María Torrellas
Nuriluz Hermosilla Osorio
In the context of the latest elections to the constituent convention in Chile, to make a new Constitution in the country, we spoke with Nuriluz Hermosilla Osorio, archaeologist and one of the three spokespersons of the Coordinadora Feminista 8M, participant of the Comité Socioambiental and the Comité de Derechos Humanos y Memoria Feminista (Human Rights and Feminist Memory Committee). (more…)
By Pedro Santana Rodríguez on May 20, 2021
The protests in Colombia have continued for 23 days in the midst of brutal repression that has resulted in more than 50 demonstrators killed, according to the non-governmental organization INDEPAZ (Instituto de Estudios Para el Desarrollo y La Paz / The Institute of Studies for Development and Peace), as of May 18, 2021. (more…)
By Tanya Wadhwa on May 18, 2018
First Line in Medellin, Photo: Colombia Informa
The meeting between the representatives of the National Strike Committee and the Colombian government, held on May 17, ended without reaching an agreement. The National Strike Committee, which brings together a diverse group of social organizations and trade unions, issued a statement after the meeting and reported that the far-right national government of President Iván Duque had refused to provide guarantees for social protests in the country, a condition set to begin negotiations to peacefully ceasing the anti-government demonstrations that have been taking place across the country for the past 20 days. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 20, 2021
Iraci Hassler, Photo: Marcelo Hernandez, Aton Chile
Last weekend, Chileans went to the polls and elected the 155 citizens who will discuss and draft Chile’s new Constitution. The country lived one of its most shocking days in its history over one year after the social outburst against President Sebastian Piñera took place (Oct. 2019 – March 2020). Against predictions, the big winner of the Constituent Convention elections was the left. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on May 20, 2021
Photo: Bill Hackwell
The aggression and the attempts by extremist paramilitary units to take away Palestinian families’ houses in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem, and the Israeli occupation of the Al Aqsa Mosque right in the holy month of Ramadan – these were the last straws that finally brought Palestinian patience to an end and resulted in the extremely serious current actions against Gaza by Israel and the general repression of the Palestinians. (more…)