USA: A terrible year

The United States ends 2021 with a long list of events that have exposed the fallacies of the "perfect democracy", of the country of opportunities and the land of human rights, to show the starkest face of an empire in decline.... More


As part of the ambitious, necessary and useful program for the promotion of renewable energy sources, Cubans are watching with great attention the news coming from a bioelectric power plant, in the testing phase, in the province of Ciego de Avila.... More


Entrenched world

Just when it seemed that the traditional Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations would bring families and friends together again, after almost two years of pandemic, the Omicron variant of the new coronavirus with a very explosive contagion speed forced many countries to resume restriction measures.... More


The specter of hunger continues to haunt the world. The appearance of new variants of COVID-19, such as Omicron with its vertiginous rate of transmission, and the low levels of vaccination, especially in less developed nations, raise fears of a worsening of this problem by 2022.... More


Optimism wins

With the most vigorous turnout in recent years, the Chilean people elected this Sunday as their next president Gabriel Boric, from the progressive coalition Apruebo Dignidad, and drove away the ghost of Pinochet's dictatorship that was flying over the southern country.... More


The year 2021 ends for Cubans with the certainty that many people are studying how to neutralize a phenomenon that squeezes pockets and sows anxiety: inflation.... More


Uruguay will enter 2022 with its eyes set on the plebiscite on the Urgent Consideration Law, whose lightning approval in July last year, in the midst of restrictions due to COVID 19, provoked numerous criticisms from society.... More


Tense elections

The second and final round of Chile's presidential elections will be held this Sunday, December 19, in a very tense atmosphere, not only because of the diametrically opposed positions of the two candidates, but also because neither of them is the favorite and a very close result is predicted.... More


Cuba and Bolivia met again this week in Havana as brothers. The interest of both countries to resume bilateral relations was evident, after a period marked by the 2019 coup d'état in the South American nation.... More


The beam in the eye

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights determined that 46 people died during this year's days of protests in Colombia, of which at least 28 were the direct responsibility of the security forces.... More


Cuba's battle was intense.  Years of denouncing the injustice committed against five of its sons, detained in September 1998 in the United States for protecting the Cuban people from terrorist actions perpetrated by organizations based in Florida, mainly in the city of Miami.... More


The energetic Doña Lucía

Lucia Hiriart, powerful widow of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, leaves with her death an inevitable bitter memory of the dark passage inscribed by her husband in Chile's history, and of which nostalgic people still see her face.... More


There are no doubts left, the right wing in the European Parliament has a fixed idea with Cuba. It persists in promoting debates on the human rights situation, under no credible pretexts, which respond to a script to manipulate the issue and give a distorted image of the Cuban reality.... More


The United States bombastically announced an investment plan by private businessmen in Central America to contain the migratory wave, but the decision falls short and is far from understanding that the phenomenon is multi-causal.... More


The raped girl 

For centuries, no region of the planet has suffered so many abuses, concentrated so many evils and calamities, as Africa, a continent that seems to be on the fringes of the human species, whose inhabitants live exposed to hunger, disease and natural phenomena.... More


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