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“Venezuelan People Join Struggle Against Racism and Repression in U.S.”

By: President Nicolás Maduro on June 3, 2020

On behalf of the Venezuelan people, I express our solidarity with the family of George Floyd, the African American community and the American people who are fighting for (more…)

Protectors of the Venezuelan Embassy Declare Victory after Federal Charges are Dropped

June 3, 2020

The four defenders in front of the federal court in Washington DC: David Paul, Margaret Flowers, Adrienne Pine, and Kevin Zeese. Photo: COHA

Federal charges against the four protectors of the Venezuelan Embassy, who defended the building in Washington DC against violent opposition crowds for several weeks between April 10 (more…)

Bolsonaro Follows Trump’s Example and Calls Protestors “Terrorists”

June 4, 2020

Repeating Trumps’ words, the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, labeled those who came out to protest against his government as “terrorists.”  Trump had used this term to refer (more…)

Trump Lives a Perfect Storm

By Juan Manuel Karg on June 2, 2020

Photo: Bill Hackwell

The assassination of social leader Martin Luther King in April 1968 provoked the largest mobilizations in the contemporary history of the United States. Years before, in August 1963, the (more…)

Leading by Example: Cuba in the Covid-19 Pandemic

By Helen Yaffe on June 4, 2020

The response of socialist Cuba to the global SARS-CoV2 pandemic has been outstanding both domestically and for its international contribution. That a small island nation, (more…)

Throwing Fuel on the Fire in South America

By Pablo Stefanoni on June 2, 2020

Photo: Juan Barreto

Latin America is becoming the new epicenter of the pandemic. The arrival of coronavirus in the area’s poorest neighborhoods threatens to intensify the pre-existing political, economic, and (more…)

The Minneapolis Spark

 By Atilio Borón on June 2, 2020

Thousands of youth protest in Oakland, Photo: Bill Hackwell

In 1944 Gunnar Myrdal, a Swede who had received the Nobel Prize in economics, wrote a book entitled “The American Dilemma” to unravel the roots of the so-called “black problem” (more…)

National Network on Cuba Statement on Police Murders

June 1, 2020

We share the anger and outrage over the murder of George Floyd and the murders of countless other people of color by an out of control and militarized U.S. police system.  The majority (more…)

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