July 17, 2024
The federal government announced Tuesday that 2,700 Cuban medical specialists will come to Mexico to work, joining 950 Cuban doctors already in the country.
The conservative Mexico News Daily is the largest english language newspaper in Mexico and is no friend of AMLO. In this article, covering an important development, it repeats the lies of the US State Department that Cuban doctors are slave labor, even though they are all volunteers and paid the same as their Mexican colleagues. Primarily what comes through is the most important issue and that is this arrangement between Mexico and Cuba is a mutually beneficial project that helps the health and welfare of both countries and is an example of how the world should operate. – Editorial (more…)
By Lucas Estanislao on July 16, 2024
Claudia De la Cruz, presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).
For Claudia De la Cruz, the concern is that the attack on Trump’s rally will bring more repression to the left
Violence has always been at the heart of how the United States makes policy, whether internally or externally, from the massacres of original populations and minorities to the two-party system that favors economic power and alienates the people. (more…)
By Rick Sterling on July 16, 2024
On July 19, Nicaraguans will be celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution
When the Monroe Doctrine was declared, in 1823, it was aimed at European colonial powers. It told them to butt out: the US “sphere of influence” included all of Latin America and the Caribbean. During the past two centuries,virtually every Latin American and Caribbean country has had to endure US intervention and interference in their internal affairs. The coups, political manipulation and aggression directed by Washington have been relentless. (more…)
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…)