By Claudio Altamirano on February 15, 2025 from Buenos Aires.
police shut down progressive concert in Buenos Aires.
The cancellation of Milo J’s show at the former ESMA is not an isolated event: it is further proof that the government of Javier Milei is afraid of art. And it is logical, because art makes people uncomfortable, art denounces while opening ones mind, art is memory. And memory is everything that this libertarian administration wants to erase. (more…)
By Frei Betto on February 14, 2025
photo: EFE
He who sows a lemon tree expects to harvest lemons. But in our society, driven by the analytical perspective and not by dialectics, facts are often examined for their effects and not for their causes. (more…)
By Guille Vilar on February 12, 2025
Eduardo Sosa, photo: Bill Hackwell
Beloved performer and artist of the distinctly Trova style of Cuban music, Eduardo Sosa, has died at the age of 52, in Guantanamo from complications from a hemorrhagic stroke. (more…)
By Claudia Fonseca Sosa on February 12, 2025
Wearing gray uniforms, with their hands handcuffed and escorted by security agents. This is how the first undocumented immigrants deported by Donald Trump’s government arrived at the Guantanamo Naval Base last Tuesday. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 13, 2025
Musk and Trump, photo: Aaron Schwartz, Bloomberg
Elon Musk, sworn in as Secretary for Government Efficiency, thundered: “The time has come for USAID to die.” His words resonated like the harbinger of an imminent storm. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump, on his first day back in the White House, ordered the suspension of almost all US foreign assistance for three months, especially that of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on February 11, 2025
“Take your money with you,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, “it’s poison.”
USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion annually in Latin America, which is only 5% of its global budget. The temporarily closed-down agency’s future looks bleak, while reactions to its money being cut have been wide-ranging. Only a few were as strong as Petro’s and many condemned the move. For example, WOLA (the Washington Office on Latin America), a leading “liberal” think tank which routinely runs cover for Washington’s regime-change efforts, called it Trump’s “America Last” policy. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 11, 2025
Luisa Gonzalez
On February 9, Ecuadorians went to the polls to vote in the highly anticipated presidential election, as well as to elect all 151 members of the National Assembly. The results of the first round of voting have set the stage for a run-off in April, as no candidate achieved the required 50% threshold to win outright. (more…)
February 11, 2025
This Monday, February 10, the Venezuelan government announced that two planes belonging to the state airline Conviasa departed from the Biggs Army Airfield in Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, United States, on their way back to Venezuela. The planes are returning to Venezuela as part of the “Return to the Homeland” program, designed to repatriate Venezuelan migrants affected by economic sanctions and “psychological warfare campaigns” against the country. (more…)