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


Controversial agreement

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


Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier has contracted COVID-19 and is in need of immediate hospitalization and care.  He is now 77-years-old and has several illnesses which make his health situation precarious.  ... 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


"Killing the Indian in the Child"

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


Holocaust without end

This January 27 commemorated the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, a date that coincides with the liberation in 1945 of the infamous Auschwitz prison camp by the Soviet Union's Red Army, a site where every imaginable horror was committed.... More


Among the hundreds of Palestinian children and adolescents imprisoned in Israel is Amal Nakhleh, a victim of the well-worn modality of administrative detention, without the international corporate press denouncing his case or that of the other prisoners.... More


Brazil continues to be the focus of attention of the international community due to the serious impact of the pandemic, accentuated by the denial of the ultra-right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro.... More


A recent report by the U.S. CIA sheds light on the studies disclosed by Cuban scientists, about the lack of foundation of the theories about alleged sonic attacks in Havana on U.S. diplomats in 2016 and 2017.... More


Stumbling along

The reactivation of the global economy will have to wait even longer due to the persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly due to the action of the Delta and Omicron variants of the virus, which increased the number of sick people and forced to resume restriction measures in many countries.... More


Cuba works for its children

The Cuban government has constantly called for the care of the most vulnerable citizens, an exhortation reiterated by President Miguel Diaz Canel, in view of the incidence of COVID 19.  And children are one of the population sectors upon which the attention of the authorities, health personnel and our scientific community have focused. ... More


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