April 1, 2020
The Latin American nation was put on alert last month after the US Justice Department issued criminal charges against top officials, including President Nicolas Maduro, and offered millions of dollars in reward money for their arrest or prosecution over alleged drug smuggling operations. (more…)
By David Bacon on April 1, 2020
Farmworkers harvesting lettuce in close proximity. Photo: David Bacon
In fields and rural communities across the United States the nation’s 2.5 million agricultural laborers are waiting for the shoe to drop – for the first cases of coronavirus among (more…)
By Ángel Guerra on March 29, 2020
The AP news agency reports that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is promoting a campaign against the coronavirus quarantine. The president and his son Flavio have appealed to (more…)
March 31, 2020
Marco Aurélio Mello, a Minister of Brazil’s Supreme Court, sent the Attorney General’s Office a request to suspend President Jair Bolsonaro from his post for 180 days for committing (more…)
By Helen Yaffe on March 30, 2020
Cuban doctors setting up ICU field hospital in Lombardy Italy
Just weeks ago, in late February 2020, US Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders was vilified by the US establishment for acknowledging education and healthcare achievements in revolutionary Cuba. (more…)
UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres
The representatives of the governments of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria and Venezuela to the United Nations have (more…)
March 26, 2020
Today, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs has submitted a diplomatic note of protest to the United States Government in response to the recent particularly offensive statements made by (more…)
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces that, at a time when humanity is facing the most ferocious of pandemics, the government of Donald Trump is once again (more…)