By Raphael Machado on September 16, 2024
Argentine Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, X/ @AlertaEcuador7
Diplomatic relations between Brazil and Venezuela, which were already tense due to differing expectations from the leadership of both countries, have become even more strained in recent days due to the debate surrounding the status of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 15, 2024
Thousands march in Tegucigalpa in support of the Xiomara Castro government.
The government of Honduran President Xiomara Castro is under siege. “A plot is being hatched against my government,” she warned at the end of the week, after announcing the government’s decision to cancel the extradition treaty with the United States, in force since 1912. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on September 14, 2024 from Havana
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks with Palestinian medical students in Havana. photo: Presidencia Cuba.
Cuban Government is offering an additional 200 fully-paid scholarships for Palestinian medical students to complete undergraduate and graduate education in the coming years. The announcement was made by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel when he received the ambassador of the State of Palestine, Dr. Akram Mohammad Samhan, who is finishing his diplomatic mission on the Caribbean island nation. (more…)
By Laura V. Mor on September 12, 2024 from Havana
The Cuban 5 soon after their freedom. Photo: Ismael Francisco
Twenty-six years ago today, those known worldwide as the Cuban Five heroes were unjustly detained by the FBI for defending Cuba’s sovereignty and preventing new terrorist attacks planned from the United States. (more…)
By Marc Vandepitte on September 13, 2024
Electoral parade in favor of Nicolás Maduro, July 26, 2024. Photo: REDH
Media manipulation is not only about what is said, but also about what is covered and what is not. The recent events in Venezuela are a good illustration of this. (more…)
September 11, 2024
Pensioners fight police as Congress capitulates to Milei on pension reform, photo:Federico López Claro
On Wednesday, the Chamber of Deputies ratified President Javier Milei’s veto of the retirement mobility law that improve the retirement pensions of passive workers (by 8.1%), preventing the amount received from being less than the Basic Basket of Benefits. (more…)
By Daniela Cabrera Monzón on September 12, 2024
Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, explaining the impact of the US blockade. photo: Marcelino Vázquez Hernández/Cubadebate
Cuba today presented an updated report on the damages caused by the longest and most extensive blockade in world history. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 12, 2024 from Caracas
1,200 delegates at the antifascist congress in Caracas. photo: Carlos Aznares
Personally I prefer the category coined by the Italian historian Steven Forti, who calls “extreme right 2.0” what is sometimes loosely called “fascism” or “neo-fascism”. In the ideological field, it is clear that we are talking about groups that take advantage of the cracks of citizen discontent, the support of the old right wing and the shortcomings of the left wing. (more…)