By Arnold August on May 22, 2020
The Venezuelan people are prepared to defend their country. Photo: Sputnik
In October 2019, when a wave of protest swept over Chile, President Sebastián Piñera called out the army, invoking the “state of emergency” clause of the Constitution. The image of soldiers in the streets and the (more…)
By Atilio Boron on May 20, 2020
Chinese doctors wave goodbye to their COVID patients
The cruel pandemic that is battering humankind has evoked reactions of all kinds. A few see it as the cruel but fertile epiphany of a better and more fortunate world that will sprout (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on May 21, 2020
Photo: Juvenal Balán
Twenty days since the terrorist attack on Cuba’s embassy in Washington, neither the event itself, nor repeated demands for official information by our government, seem to be of importance to (more…)
By Omar Olazabal Rodriguez on May 20, 2020
I have found no other way to define the current permanent attacks against our reality and our people than to turn to Pierre Bourdieu and his concept of ‘symbolic violence’. The famous (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on May 21, 2020
The murder of Felix Garcia
Cuban State Security has documented 581 acts of aggression in 41 countries against the island’s diplomatic personnel and buildings abroad. Here I am talking specifically about two (more…)
By Frei Betto on May 19, 2020
If Brazil had a real government, it would have already taken urgent precautions to minimize the effects of the pandemic on the poorest and most vulnerable. Not just the R$600 ($104 (more…)
By Mark Weisbrot co-director of CEPR on May 19, 2020
Buenos Aires, Photo: Bill Hackwell
We are running this article because of its clear explanation of what the impact paying off IMF loans will have instead of countries using that money to fight the pandemic and hunger. (more…)
Fernando Buen Abad, on May 18, 2020
Behind every invention produced in the entrails of the dominant ideology, are the most perverse mercantile interests in the history of mankind. (more…)