May 23, 2025
Sabastio Salgado, photo: Gorka Lejarcegi
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, musician Gilberto Gil, and other Brazilian personalities highlighted the extraordinary work of photographer Sebastiao Delgado, who died on Friday at the age of 81. (more…)
May 16, 2025
Dina Boluarte being sworn in as president in 2022. .
Peru’s leader, Dina Boluarte, holds the unenviable world record of being the least popular president on planet Earth, according to data from the polling firm Ipsos. The controversial Peruvian president, who came to power after an institutional coup, has only a two percent approval rating. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on May 21, 2025
Father Paco tear gassed during the retirees protest in Buenos Aires on May 14. Photo: UTEP
For several months now, Argentine retirees have continued a young anti-neoliberal political tradition in Argentina: they have been demonstrating in front of the National Congress every Wednesday against the economic policies of Milei’s project, which have greatly impacted their lives. Pagina 12 is reporting that 82 pensioners were injured by the Bullrich gendarmes in today’s demonstration. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on May 22, 2025 from Havana
Like Mambrú, Zuckerberg went to war, and who knows what other perversions he and his cyber cronies will get up to. photo: ap
Big tech companies are no longer hiding their alliances: business is at war, and Meta knows it. The parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads has launched a direct offensive to integrate itself into the US war architecture. According to Forbes this week, Mark Zuckerberg’s oligopoly has begun hiring former Pentagon officials and national security advisers, such as Francis Brennan, a former Trump aide, to manage its relations with the state and military apparatus (https://acortar.link/f97cBV). (more…)
May 20, 2024 from San Francisco
In 1804, the Haitian revolution successfully destroyed slavery in Haiti and won independence from France. In 1825, the French government sent warships to force the Haitians to pay their former French enslavers 150 million gold francs for their “lost property” or face an invasion. Paying off this “debt,” which was taken over by Citibank and estimated in today’s market to be up to 115 billion dollars, is what impoverished Haiti. In 2003, Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide demanded that France pay restitution. Nine months later he was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by France, US and Canada. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 20, 2025
The Esequibo is Ours, photo: Parra / AFP
Venezuela is gearing up for a significant electoral event on Sunday, May 25, as 36 political organizations will take part in the regional and parliamentary elections. A total of over 21 million citizens are expected to cast their votes, shaping the country’s political future at both local and national levels, in a defining political moment. (more…)
By Raul Antonio Capote on May 19, 2025 from Havana
The US flag, raised before the Cuban flag on May 20, 1902, in Havana. Photo: Granma archive
What republic do Carlos Giménez, Mario Díaz-Balart, Marco Rubio, María Elvira Salazar and company long for, if not for that farce of May 20? (more…)
May 20, 2025
Julian Assange at the Cannes Film Festival
During the premiere of a documentary about his life, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks displayed the names of 4,986 Palestinian children killed in Gaza. (more…)