In 2019, the living standard of a majority of Brazilians suddenly dropped, a problem that began three years earlier following the parliamentary coup against the constitutional president Dilma Rousseff, from the Workers' Party, a political organization that in 2003 implemented social programs to favor the poor and managed to remove Brazil from the global Hunger Chart in 2014. ... More


U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has defined a 'new' policy of her country towards Latin America that seeks to maintain its hegemonic role in the region... More


The closure of the Guantanamo naval base and the return of that territory located in the eastern part of the country illegally occupied by the United States, is a long-standing demand of Cuba, supported by other peoples, political personalities and international organizations.... More


Ecuador: Who is to blame?

Outgoing Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno has dominated the news and generated headlines due to the devastating health and economic situation of his country.... More


A campaign of fear 

The electoral process is advancing in Peru, as we come up to the second round of the presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, June 6.  Voters will choose between the progressive professor Pedro Castillo and the representative of the ultra-right, Keiko Fujimori.... More


If the Western media would comply with what it claims to be its principles of objectivity, good and worthy causes such as the struggle of the Cuban people against the U.S. blockade would have the global impact they deserve.... More


A hidden army

An investigation conducted by research groups from two Brazilian universities reveals that over the past several decades, several irregular militias have emerged in the city of Rio de Janeiro and several other metropolitan areas, which might be defined as real 'shadow armies.'... More


Popular victory

Colombian citizens scored an important victory when they forced President Iván Duque to withdraw a controversial tax reform bill from Congress, since it would have a strong negative impact on the middle and lower social classes.... More


Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva had good reasons to urge the capitalist world to abandon the ideological persecution against Cuba, which gratefully receives the expressions of solidarity.... More


People before profits

Hundreds of non-governmental organizations, political leaders, government leaders and Nobel Prize winners are engaged in an intense international campaign to make vaccines against COVID-19 a common good for all.... More


Crime and punishment?

The guilty verdict against former police officer Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering George Floyd, generated great satisfaction in several sectors of American society, although diverse opinions point out that true justice is still a long way off.... More


The Communist Party of Cuba, the PCC, for its Spanish initials, celebrates its Eighth Congress on a day of great significance for all Cubans.  Sixty years ago -- on April 16th in 1961 -- Fidel Castro proclaimed the socialist character of the Revolution, which would be heroically defended hours later against the mercenary invasion of Playa Giron, supported and financed by the United States.... More


Macri on trial

The Argentinian government serves as a plaintiff in a trial presented against former President Mauricio Macri and several officials of his administration, who are suspected to have participated in a gigantic fraud concerning a loan granted in 2018 by the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, to that country.... More


Sand and lime

The wind blows hot and cold for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been tasked with creating a new government after last March's elections, almost at the same time as the beginning of a trial against him on corruption and abuse of power.... More


It's more than just a vaccine

With only a few exceptions, including Cuba -- a small Caribbean archipelago subjected to a brutal blockade -- COVID-19 brings out the worst features of human beings around the world -- that is to say selfishness, corruption and the excessive profit motive of criminal organizations.... More


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