By Alejandra Garcia on May 25, 2021
Photo: Omara García. Mederos/ACN
Since the beginning of 2021, Cuba has allocated over $300 million to contain the pandemic. This figure speaks volumes about how the government has focused its efforts on lowering the contagion curve in this poor, blockaded nation that has no vast natural resources. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 20, 2021
Iraci Hassler, Photo: Marcelo Hernandez, Aton Chile
Last weekend, Chileans went to the polls and elected the 155 citizens who will discuss and draft Chile’s new Constitution. The country lived one of its most shocking days in its history over one year after the social outburst against President Sebastian Piñera took place (Oct. 2019 – March 2020). Against predictions, the big winner of the Constituent Convention elections was the left. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 16, 2021 from Havana
Photo: Miguel Rubiera Justiz /ACN
In March, social organizations, political leaders, and solidarity movements launched a fundraising campaign to send syringes to Cuba. The world wants to support the vaccination process of this small nation, which has done so much to fight COVID-19 beyond its geography. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 11, 2021
In Cali the Women are Standing
The Colombian people have been in the streets protesting against President Ivan Duque for 14 days in a row. Social anger erupted over a tax reform that sought to increase the price of basic products, such as milk and meat, amid an unprecedented economic and health crisis. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 6, 2021
Photo: EFE
President Nayib Bukele has once again made a move against El Salvador’s democracy. Last Saturday, two months after the country´s parliamentary elections, the pro-Bukele majority in Congress was sworn in. Instead of trying to tackle the serious problems affecting the country, the new lawmakers, almost all from the ruling New Ideas Party, turned directly against the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office of El Salvador. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 3, 2021
photo: BioCubaFarma
At the beginning of the year, Cuba set out to immunize its population in record time with its own vaccines. This month, it will begin to fulfill that dream. The Health Ministry is already arranging the final details in its medical points network to start the first stage of mass immunization with the Abdala and Soberana 02 vaccines in Havana. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 25, 2021
Cuba, Photo: Abel Rojas Barallobre
“Mother Earth does not belong to us, we are part of her. Savage capitalism has turned life into a big market and has destroyed the essential balance that must exist between nature and human beings,” Bolivia’s President Luis Arce said in commemoration of International Earth Day. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 20, 2021 from Havana
Photo: Estudios Revolucion
This Monday, Cuba closed the doors of its most important political event of 2021: the eighth Congress of the Communist Party (PCC). Following four days of sessions, 60 years after the failure of the US invasion of the island, the historic generation of the Revolution took the podium to announce its farewell to the people. (more…)