Despite Predictions Latin America Plunges into Poverty and Inequality

By Raúl Antonio Capote on March 28, 2024

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Despite Predictions Latin America Plunges into Poverty and InequalityCalculations and predictions about the economy in the world, is beginning to show its first results for 2024. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts a slight decline in world growth to 2.9%, compared to 3% in 2023, forecasts that, so far, have been met fairly closely. (more…)

Obama Opened a Door between Cuba and the US. Why is Biden Closing it Again?

By Bhaskar Sunkara

photo: Bill Hackwell

On 6 April 1960, the US diplomat Lester D Mallory wrote a memo advocating an embargo “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. Sixty-four years later and the policy that Cubans call el bloqueo (the blockade) is still in force. (more…)

“Earthquake in Miami”

By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on March 28, 2024

Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell

On March 17, extraordinary events took place in Cuba, which once again received disproportionate coverage in the social networks and some foreign media considering the type of disasters we are experiencing in today’s world. They are “extraordinary in Cuba” because this has not been a country where the forces of law and order walk with long guns in the streets, there are no armored cars to confront demonstrations with strong jets of water, nor are there cases of loss of eyes due to the use of rubber bullets. (more…)

Puerto Ricans Take to The Streets against Kamala Harris’s Visit

March 26, 2024

protestors against Kamala Harris take down US flag. photo: Yanina Arias

On Friday, March 22, Kamala Harris marked her first visit to Puerto Rico since becoming Vice President of the United States to attend a Democratic Party fundraiser, and was met with mass protests. (more…)

Chile marches for Palestine: “As Long as Zionism Exists there will be no Peace”

By Andrés Figueroa Cornejo on March 23, 2024

photo: Andrés Figueroa Cornejo

Along the Alameda, the main artery of Santiago de Chile, and from the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center to Plaza Los Héroes, humanity marched today in solidarity with the cause of the people of Palestine to demand that the Boric administration break diplomatic, commercial and military relations with Israel. (more…)

Cuba: President Diaz-Canel Addresses the Needs of the Population through a New Communication Channel

By Alejandra Garcia on March 25, 2024 from Havana

Arlene Rodriguez moderates the first Desde la Presidencia

 The Cuban people are not alone. When on March 17, citizens from some areas of Santiago de Cuba took to the streets against the long hours of blackouts and the lack of food in the country, President Miguel Diaz-Canel spoke before the national cameras and assured that their demands, are being heard. (more…)

Paraguay Peasant Movements Demands Access to Land, Production and Justice

By Alejandra Garcia on March 24, 2024

This week, a new march of indigenous and peasant movements went out from the plains to the cities to condemn the abuses of the government and call for the defense of democracy and food sovereignty. Under heavy rain and with indigenous people and women at the forefront, on March 20 and 21, thousands of compatriots carried out the traditional and thirtieth demonstration of the Peasant, Indigenous and Popular March, with the slogan “For land and production, against all injustices”. (more…)

Argentina: Massive Demonstration Commemorates the 1976 Coup and Say No to Milei’s Rewriting of History

By Bill Hackwell on March 24, 2024 from Buenos Aires

30,000 Alive in Truth! photo: Bill Hackwell

Hundreds of thousands are still in the streets here that lead to the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s presidential palace. Since 2002 March 24, has been officially recognized and referred to as the National Day of Memory  marking the beginning of the 1976 military coup that disappeared, tortured and murdered at least 30,000 people. (more…)

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