By Alejandra Garcia on February 6, 2024
Bukele’s re election celebration
This Sunday, candidate for re-election Nayib Bukele proclaimed himself president of El Salvador with just 30 percent of the votes counted. “This has been an overwhelming victory, in which we have received more than 85% of the votes,” said the president, 42, amid claims of irregularities, violations of democracy, and problems with the vote count. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 4, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The blockade against Cuba is real. It is palpable in the kilometer-long lines of cars that take hours or days in front of the gas stations nationwide, and in the lack of medicines in the national network of pharmacies, the shortage of medical supplies in hospitals, and the obstacles the country faces to purchase food on the international market. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia in Havana on January 30, 2024
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba needs development, even if it seems impossible amid increasingly adverse international conditions. And it needs to develop without trampling on the most vulnerable but also in being consistent with the world around us which is unstable, marked by inflation, and the exponential increase in essential goods. All of this in world of escalating tensions. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 25, 2024
Bolivarian National Armed Forces, photo: Bill Hackwell
The destabilization, invasions, coups, and assassinations in those Latin American countries that are inconvenient for the US hegemony have a common instigator: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Agency’s interventions in Latin America in the past decades are well known. But what has happened in recent days? (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 21, 2024
Galápagos Islands outcry after Ecuador allows US military to use airstrip
History repeats itself. For centuries, the United States has sought ways to intervene in Latin America to strengthen its military presence and dominance in the region whenever a country is in crisis. And it is happening again. The current security crisis in Ecuador is presented as an opportunity for the United States to deepen its military presence in the Andean country. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 14, 2024
Freedom for President Castillo
Peru’s political life has always been intense, but rarely has it been as turbulent as in recent years. This Friday, the Peruvian Public Prosecutor’s Office requested a prison sentence of 34 years for former President Pedro Castillo for the alleged crimes of rebellion, abuse of authority, and serious disturbance of public tranquility. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 9, 2024 from Havana
Cuba is facing a war-like economic scenario, with the pressures of the intensified U.S. blockade, a complex international context, and growing inflation amid the constant search for self-sustainability… This reality hinders all the efforts being made for the country’s economic performance. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on January 4, 2024
44% of the Guatemalan people are Mayan. photo: Bill Hackwell
Guatemala’s president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo de León, will take office on January 14 with high expectations for radical change. It remains to be seen if his ambitious plan will succeed, but for the time being, any of his decisions will be a step forward in a country that is 44% Mayan and where more than 50 percent of the population lives in conditions of extreme poverty. (more…)