By Alejandra Garcia on October 30, 2023
protestors say no new mining contract. photo: Walter Hurtado/Bloomberg
Panama has woken up once again. For several days now, thousands of its citizens have taken to the streets against a nefarious mining contract that would not only put vast areas of the country in the hands of private companies, with headquarters in the North, but would also cause irreparable environmental damage. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 24, 2023
Migration meeting in Palenque Chiapas, photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Migration is not a new phenomenon. For centuries, the world’s population has moved from one place to another with a common motivation: the search for a better future. However, in recent decades, the numbers have soared dramatically and dangerously, (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 19, 2023
Daniel Noboa,
Against all odds, businessman Daniel Noboa, heir to a vast business empire, won the elections in Ecuador with 52.1% of the votes in his favor, ahead of the 47.9% of the leftist Luisa Gonzalez. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 17, 2023
Arleen Rodriguez interviewing Cuban President Diaz- Canel
Cuba is going through complex times, like the rest of the world. The pandemic and its aftermath, which still impacts the island and most of the countries on the planet; inflation, the shortage and increase of food prices in the international market are some of the challenges faced by humanity in recent times, a reality that Cuba is no stranger to. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 13, 2023
Peruvian in the streets call for Boularte, usurper resign
Peru is in the news again. Hundreds of people have returned to the streets against the regime of Dina Boluarte, who is entrenched in the government, does not give in to the demands for early elections, and does not do justice for the deaths left by police brutality during the protests unleashed at the beginning of this year. The panorama is bleak. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 10, 2023
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
Every October 10th is a reason for national pride. On that day in 1868, 155 years ago, Cubans began the struggle for the independence of the island, then known as the “most precious jewel of the Spanish crown,” which lived under a humiliating submission amid an unstoppable process of love for the homeland. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 5, 2023 from Havana
photo: Ricardo López Hevia
A new tragedy has shaken the whole country as if we had room for one more to endure. A building in the emblematic Old Havana, a few blocks away from the National Capitol, has left a toll of two dead, two rescuers, who died while trying to save lives. The first collapse of the façade of the three-story building left several people buried in the rubble. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 28, 2023 from Havana
The 10th Congress of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), an organization founded by Fidel Castro on the historic night of September 28, 1960, concluded in Havana this Thursday after two days of deliberations. (more…)