The murder a few days ago of Roberto Toledo, the fourth Mexican communicator executed so far this year, highlights all the difficulties that persist today in transforming a country long dominated by violence and unchecked corruption.... More
Sixty years ago, the United States made official the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, the longest in the history of humanity. This cruel and inhuman policy had already been in the making since 1959 to isolate and asphyxiate the nascent Cuban Revolution.... More
The UN says the world is moving away from the use of capital punishment, with 170 member countries abolishing it, but in the United States the pace persists.... More
In politics and international relations, nothing happens by spontaneous generation, much less in a crisis as serious as the one in Ukraine that could lead to a conflict of great proportions between Russia and the United States, plus its European NATO allies.... More
During the electoral campaign and in her inauguration speech on January 27th as president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, has had very much in mind the citizens affected by poverty, a scourge that today covers 71% of the almost ten million inhabitants of the Central American country.... More
Cuban agriculture is having difficulties with the acquisition of inputs due to their high price in the international market, but in spite of that, beekeeping stood out, even in the face of the damages caused by the pandemic.... More
The recent contagion with COVID-19 of the longest-held political prisoner in the United States, indigenous leader Leonard Peltier, brought to light once again the details of his unjust imprisonment and all the lies and falsehoods that were concocted to sentence him to two life sentences.... More
Costa Rica will go to the polls next Sunday to elect the new president of the country among a record number of 25 candidates, which confers great uncertainty and augurs a second round next April.... More
Cubans are once again urged to contribute opinions and suggestions, this time on an important legal text in the making, the draft Family Code Law.... More
In defiance of unusually low temperatures, Cubans in cities in the center and east of the country staged another day against the U.S. blockade, accompanying initiatives that, as is becoming common, also summoned residents abroad.... More
In December 2017, under the mandate of the leftist Frente Amplio, Law 19.580 was passed in Uruguay to guarantee the right of women, regardless of age, race, socioeconomic status, belief or sexual orientation, to a life free of violence.... More
The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, announced over the weekend that an agreement was reached with the International Monetary Fund, IMF, to renegotiate the onerous loan that was granted during the administration of Mauricio Macri and whose maturities threatened the country's economy.... More
More than nine million Portuguese are called to the polls this Sunday, January 30, to choose the Assembly of the Republic (parliament), from which the prime minister, unpredictably of the left or the right, will be elected.... More
An essential place in the Cuban government's work agenda is occupied by the tour of the various territories of the country to listen to the people, learn about their concerns and suggestions on problems that concern everyone.... More
I offer my apologies for the harshness of the title of this commentary, but that phrase, "Kill the Indian in the Child," clearly describes one of the most brutal ethnocides perpetrated in the history of our continent, of which little by little more details are becoming known.... More
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