By Alejandra Garcia on December 27, 2022
Lula campaigning for president
January 1 will be a long-awaited day for Brazil’s progressive movement. On that day, Luis Inácio Lula Da Silva, once and future president, will officially replace the nefarious Latin American Trump, Jair Bolsonaro. With only a few days ahead, the country is already beginning to prepare for this historic day. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 22, 2022, from Havana
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel at the FEU conference. photo: Abel Padron Padilla
This Tuesday, the capital hosted one of the most important youth events of the year, the closing of the 10th Congress of the Federation of University Students (FEU), the organization founded by leftist leader Julio Antonio Mella 100 years ago this December. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on December 13, 2022
Peru is experiencing a new episode of its long history of institutional crisis. Today, a new president occupies the seat in the Government Palace, only 16 months after the country elected the leftist teacher Pedro Castillo, and Peruvians are once again suffering uncertainty about the political future of their Andean nation. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on December 6, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is a mosaic of religious expressions. Although it is a mostly secular country, there is a mixture of multiple beliefs, inherited from the first inhabitants of the island, the indigenous, then, from the centuries of colonization, from African ancestors, and from Haitian, Arab, Chinese, and other migrants. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 4, 2022, from Havana
Cuba is once again at the center of Washington’s hostilities. Last week, it was news that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) suggested rejecting the installation of an undersea telecommunications cable connecting the two countries, which would help facilitate internet access for Cubans. The justification: The White House fears that this deployment would endanger the national security of the North American country. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 28, 2022 from Havana
Calla Walsh, co-chair of the National Network on Cuba, attending the US/Cuba Youth Meeting, observes local elections in Cuba.
Since last Thursday, Cuba has been the venue for an important gathering entitled, Youth Friendship Meeting “Building Our Future Today.” Young people from Cuba and the United States shared, in English and Spanish, thoughts about social justice, free public access to education and health, science (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 22, 2022
Gustavo Petro promised a change, and he is achieving it. One hundred days after his inauguration ceremony in Bogota’s Bolivar Square, the first left-wing president of this Latin American country has managed to implement 50 essential measures to lift Colombians out of endemic poverty and violence. (more…)
November 20, 2022
Hebe de Bonafini, photo: Bill Hackwell
The president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, died this today at the age of 93 in Argentina. (more…)