By Marcos Maranges on January 8, 2023
Joe Biden recently issued new migratory measures to ease the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. He expanded the scope of Title 42 which will also apply now to Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Haitian migrants trying to enter illegally into the U.S. The Title 42 process allowed the U.S. to expel upward of two million migrants last year. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 25, 2021
After Nicaragua announced it had just started the process to leave the Organization of American States (OAS), the world began debating the reasons and the consequences of this decision. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 23, 2021
On November 19th, Nicaragua’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moncada announced to the international community his country’s irrevocable decision to leave the Organization of American States (OAS). The news was a surprise for many people, but the announcement did not come out of nowhere. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 18, 2021
US demonstration in support of Bolivarian Venezuela. photo: Bill Hackwell
On this coming Sunday November 21, Venezuela will go to regional and local elections to vote for over 3000 public officials. However, some governments and people still think that the country is a dictatorship ruled by President Nicolas Maduro. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Marcos Maranges on November 16, 2021 from Havana
Cubans rally in support of their revolution on 15N. photo: Jose Manuel Correa
Cuba dawned yesterday full of images that we had missed seeing for a very long time. Thousands of children between five and nine years old returned to the classrooms in a feast of colors. Reporters on the island took the opportunity to immortalize this long-awaited day since COVID-19 forced the closure of the country’s schools to avoid contagions. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 11, 2021
Photo: Agencia Andina
Yesterday Peru’s President Pedro Castillo addressed the nation to talk about his government’s achievements during the first one hundred days of his presidency. It was a good speech, full of new and ongoing actions to improve the living conditions of a large part of the Peruvian people; (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 9, 2021
The lower chamber of the Chilean parliament just passed a resolution to impeach President Sebastian Piñera due to his involvement in the global corruption scandal of Pandora Papers. (more…)
By Marcos Maranges on November 4, 2021
photo: Ricky Wilson
During the past weeks, Latin America has been involved in two critically important events on the global stage: the G-20 Summit in Rome, Italy, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-26) in Glasgow Scotland which is still underway. (more…)