By Emir Sader on April 21, 2021
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
How often have we looked to Lula for hope? Hoping that the heroic strike would bring down the dictatorship! Hoping that the transition would truly bring democracy to Brazil! Hoping that he would defeat Collor! Hoping that he would enable Brazil to free ourselves from the Cardoso government and its neoliberal model! (more…)
By Guillermo Bermejo on April 21, 2021
Congressman Guillermo Bermejo
During a Monday evening interview, incoming Congressman Guillermo Bermejo, of Pedro Castillo’s Peru Libre party, told Canal N host Mavila Huertas that the Washington-designed anti-drug policy in Peru has been a total failure and that if Pedro Castillo, who is leading in the polls over right wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, is elected president on June 6, he will expel the US military and the DEA. (more…)
By Yoselina Guevara L. on April 19, 2021
Photo: Pablo Urrea/Pixabay
Venezuela shares with Colombia not only 2,219 km of borders, but also a history that unites them. A union that emerged solidly under the command of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, against a common enemy such as the Spanish Empire, and that was consolidated for more than a decade when both nations were part of the Gran Colombia. With the fracture of this Bolivarian dream, (more…)
By Igor Carvalho on April 16, 2021
After Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posted a video on his social networks accusing the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of violence against landowners in southern Bahia, last Wednesday, April 14th, the movement of landless farmers responded. (more…)
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein on April 17, 2021
The Tigris River in Iraq after the invasion of the US. Photo: Bill Hackwell
As reported by the Union de Trabajadores de la Tierra (Union of Workers of the Earth) of Argentina and quoted by Resumen Latinoamericano, according to the 2010 national census in Argentina there were “5.3 million people who had no access to potable water in their homes, and about 1 million who had no access anywhere on their property.” This means that about 13% of the inhabitants of Argentina have no possibility of a dependable water supply in their homes. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 20, 2021 from Havana
Photo: Estudios Revolucion
This Monday, Cuba closed the doors of its most important political event of 2021: the eighth Congress of the Communist Party (PCC). Following four days of sessions, 60 years after the failure of the US invasion of the island, the historic generation of the Revolution took the podium to announce its farewell to the people. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on April 17, 2021
The inhumane system of neoliberal globalization that has been imposed on the majority of the world’s countries has led to the increased (more…)
By Julio C. Gambina on April 14, 2021
Photo: Bill Hackwell
There were elections in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, for governorships in the first case and presidential elections in the others. The results, still under analysis, (more…)