By Tubal Páez Hernández on July 15, 2024
Artwork by Aristides Hernandez (Ares)
The Copa America and the Euro Cup are coming to an end and deserve a reflection, even if this is just a grain of sand in a wave that has moved multitudes on Planet Soccer. There is a new cartoon by the famed Cuban cartoonist Aristides Hernandez Guerrero (Ares), which shows a man with a newspaper in hand, and he lifts with his fingers the lines of text to find what is behind. (more…)
By Raul Antonio Capote on July 15, 2024 from Havana
image: Jorge
The US elections are almost at the final stretch and the machinery conceived to preserve the power of the 1% of the citizens of that country (the richest and most powerful), greased with billions of dollars, that shows its real gear. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on July 15, 2024
Rally for Maduro in Carabobo on July 11
The future of Venezuela’s 25-year-old socialist movement will be decided in the upcoming July 28 election. Venezuelans will go to the polls knowing that a vote for incumbent President Nicolás Maduro means no relief from US unilateral coercive measures. (more…)
By Steve Ellner on July 10, 2024
María Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia (AP/Ariana Cubillos)
With all the hype over María Corina Machado being the only real hope for Venezuela to overcome 25 years of autocratic rule, the mainstream media loses sight of several key factors surrounding the nation’s presidential elections slated for July 28. First, the U.S. has played a central role in favor of Machado’s candidacy and, once it was clear that the government of Nicolas Maduro would not allow her to run, Washington backed the notion that she had the right to choose who would represent the so-called united democratic opposition at the polls. (more…)
By Jill Clark-Gollub on July 11, 2024
Migrants at border wall waiting to surrender to immigration officials in El Paso, TX, March 25, 2024. Photo: Reuters/Adrees Latif.
The Republican party has been waging a blatantly racist campaign to criminalize migrants. Instead of pushing back on that narrative, the party that purports to be for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Democrats) is exploiting this racist anger to discredit a country it has targeted for regime change—Nicaragua—apparently for not sufficiently suppressing the rights of migrants. (more…)
Por Alejandra García y Bill Hackwell el 14 de julio de 2024
El expresidente Donald Trump fue herido de bala y leve durante un mitin ayer en Pensilvania. Las imágenes de esos segundos de caos han dado la vuelta al mundo, con fotos del rostro ensangrentado del expresidente, herido en la oreja derecha; dos centímetros a la izquierda y este sería un artículo diferente. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on July 14, 2024
Former President Donald Trump was shot and slightly wounded during a rally yesterday in Pennsylvania. The images of those seconds of chaos have circled the globe, with photos of the bloodied face of the former president, who was wounded in his right ear; two inches to the left and this would be a different article. (more…)
By Berta Joubert-Ceci on July 12, 2024 from Puerto Rico
workers picketing at Suiza Dairy
In Puerto Rico, being a colony, each of our struggles has several ramifications and consequences. A simple strike conflict can become a real national conflict. This is the case of the strike of the Suiza Dairy workers who have been demonstrating since June 11. (more…)