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


The glass ceiling

It is quite common that the U.S. government, loyal to its traditions, meddles in the sovereign affairs of other nations as it recently did when demanding freedom for coup leader Jeanine Añez and two of her locked-up ministers in Bolivia. ... More


Vaccine circus

We are now witnessing the appalling image of human greed with the distribution of vaccines... More


The endless war

The new U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, made his first visit to Afghanistan, where he met with the high command of the occupying army and local authorities, and repeated the old litany that his country is seeking a "responsible" solution to the war.... More


Signs of concern 

We are still immersed in the most difficult stage of a health crisis that in little more than one year has caused almost 122 million infections and 2.68 million deaths, and there are already alarming signs that show the post-pandemic world will not be any better than it was before.... More


European political and social forces have conveyed messages of support to Cuba, which faces difficult times, while right-wing regional sectors intensify their destabilizing plans.... More


The World Health Organization has highlighted that Brazil presents an alarming situation, and remains the second country in the world with the highest number of deaths due to COVID-19 and the third regarding the amount of infected people.  For several weeks, this country has shown critical records, with an average death toll of 1,500 per day.... More


Israel on trial

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, ICC, recently reported from the city of The Hague, Netherlands, the opening of an investigation into the war crimes committed by the Zionist regime of Israel against the Palestinian people.... More


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