By Alejandra Garcia on March 13, 2022
photo: agencia uno
Leftist Gabriel Boric became Chile’s president-elect this week, the man who will run the politics of one of the continent’s largest economies. The youngest president in Chile’s history represents the millions of people who took to the streets in late 2019 against the neoliberal policies of outgoing Sebastian Piñera. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 8, 2022 from Havana
Sierra Maestras, photo: Bill Hackwell
On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co men’s shirt factory in New York City, U.S. The company’s owner did not expect a major fire to spread through the building after locking the exit door, leaving more than 100 women employees inside. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 6, 2022
dancing to the plaza. photo: Bill Hackwell
The last time I paraded through the Plaza de la Revolución on May Day was in 2019. I remember the sound that day from the clanging of a handbell, beaten by a very red-eyed man, who probably had been sleepless for hours, waiting for the march to begin. He was walking along with other members of a marching band, which was advancing through the crowd playing a Conga, a very Cuban rhythm that makes you dance for good. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 1, 2022
students at the University of Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
I’m from the generation that was born in the 1990s. Those were the most difficult times that Cuba experienced since the revolutionary triumph of 1959, led by Fidel. Then, the young people helped pull the island out of a “Special Period” and an unprecedented economic crisis. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 22, 2022 from Havana
anti war protest in US, photo: Liberation News
America’s hatred towards Russia is old news. Since the Cold War years, successive White House administrations have allocated billions of dollars to form Russophobes, spread false information, and discredit the European giant before the international community. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 17, 2022 from Havana
Buena Fe
Cubans of my generation grew up listening to the songs of the musical duo Buena Fe and the first concerts I went to as a teenager were theirs. I know every album, every hit and all their lyrics. I watched with pride as their popularity took off in other countries since friends from other latitudes began to ask me about these singers of Catalejo, Tras tus pies, and Corazonero. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 15, 2022, from Havana
photo: Ismael Batista
Two years ago, when COVID-19 broke out, we had no idea that it would be the most traumatic experience that every country in the world would have to live through, and that it would hit especially hard those nations with low resources, such as this small Caribbean island. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 13, 2022
photo: epa
Even though you wouldn’t know if you only followed the corporate media, in January violence continued to spiral in Colombia. Human rights movements recorded an increase of attacks against police stations, military bases, and civilians and reported assassinations and intimidation against social leaders in several departments. (more…)