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Nicaragua – False Witness, False Memory

By Stephen Sefton on May 31, 2020

Cuba’s “Henry Reeve” medical brigade arrives in Nicaragua Photo: La Voz del Sandinismo

On Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The standard Western canonical sources of record, namely international institutions, non-governmental organizations and media outlets, practically (more…)

Nicaragua battles COVID-19 and a Disinformation Campaign

By John Perry on May 30, from Masaya, Nicaragua

Sanitation squad who work for the Managua city council. Photo: el 19digital.com

Every country in the world is trying to balance its fight against the virus with the need to have a functioning economy, and there is plenty of debate about what the balance should be. (more…)

Remember, No One Is Coming to Save Us

By Roxane Gay on May 30, 2020

After Donald Trump maligned the developing world in 2018, with the dismissive phrase “shithole countries,” I wrote that no one was coming to save us from the president. Now, in the midst of a pandemic, we see exactly what that means. (more…)

The US, “a Failed Social Experiment”

By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on May 31, 2020

“What we are witnessing in the United States is a failed social experiment,” the philosopher Cornel West said in an interview with CNN about the murder by the police of African-American George Floyd. (more…)

Cuba’s Secrets in Fighting COVID-19 

By Ángel Guerra Cabrera On May 29, 2020

Cuban doctors going door to door, Foto: Ricardo López Hevia

Cuba has several medications unique in the world in terms of their effectiveness in promoting the survival of COVID-19 patients in serious and critical condition.  While, world-wide, (more…)

New U.S. Special Force Coming to Colombia to Organize Military Operations against Venezuela

 May 28, 2020

In a shameless attempt of making U.S. interventionism transparent in Latin America, the government of Iván Duque is facilitating the work of his Pentagon godfathers and is opening (more…)

Will They Get Past Us?        

By David Brooks on May 25, 2020

In a chat with friends, someone asked. “Do you think Trump will win in spite of the 100,000 dead and about 40 million unemployed due to his mismanagement of the pandemic?”, and (more…)

Why Iran’s Fuel Tankers for Venezuela Are Sending Shudders through Washington

By Vijay Prashad on May 27, 2020

The Fortune, with Venezuelan Navy escort. Photo: Nicolas Maduro

The first oil tanker that came from Iran’s Bandar Abbas port into the Caribbean is called Fortune. The tanker entered Venezuelan waters on May 24 and was then escorted by the (more…)

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