By Carlos Noriega on May 9, 2021 in Lima
Castillo and Mendoza, @CuscoPeriodista
Four weeks before the June 6 run-off election, the Peruvian left have united and close to an agreement to promote a “government of change” headed by the professor and trade unionist Pedro Castillo, who is facing the right-wing Keiko Fujimori, daughter and political heir of the imprisoned ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori. (more…)
By Abner Barrera Rivera on May 6, 2021
The journalist Arleen Rodríguez wrote in 2007 that “there are at least 2,000 journalists who request an interview with Fidel each year.” (more…)
By Angel Guerra on May 5, 2021
Photo: Casa de Las Americas
They are killing us! The cry comes from the people, millions who are rebelling against Uribism, which is the cruelest form of neoliberalism in our America. The protest against the tax reform is entering its seventh day even though the government has said it is withdrawing it. Meanwhile it pushes further, the abuses being committed in its war against the people at the insistence of the oligarchy with the approval of the empire, which has turned Colombia into the second most unequal country in the region, where, in spite of the peace agreements, massacres and murders are daily bread. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 6, 2021
Photo: EFE
President Nayib Bukele has once again made a move against El Salvador’s democracy. Last Saturday, two months after the country´s parliamentary elections, the pro-Bukele majority in Congress was sworn in. Instead of trying to tackle the serious problems affecting the country, the new lawmakers, almost all from the ruling New Ideas Party, turned directly against the Supreme Court and the Attorney General’s Office of El Salvador. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on May 4, 2021
In the first hundred days of the Biden administration, international media saw the emergence of a “new New Deal” reminiscent of the style of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who governed during four terms as president from 1933 to 1945, when he died suddenly. Ever since the days of Roosevelt, people in the U.S. have considered the first hundred days as a sort of entrance exam to evaluate the credibility of new administrations. (more…)
By S. Brian Willson, April 26, 2021
Daniel Ortega, Photo: Jairo Cajina
“A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.” Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, 1933-1945.
President Ortega is a dictator! President Ortega is a dictator! President Ortega is a dictator! Say it over and over, and it becomes accepted truth with absolutely no evidence whatsoever. Welcome to the post-truth world – a Goebbels’ world. (more…)
By Carlos Aznarez on April 30, 2021
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam has always been a hard nut to crack for imperialism that attempted to carve out its territory. Before the Americans, it was the French, who in the mid-19th century had undertaken the conquest of the country, and met with a heroic resistance that “once and a thousand times made us retreat in our attempts”, as one of the military chiefs in Paris later explained. (more…)
By Carola Chavez on May 2, 2021
Iván Simonovis and Carlos Vecchio, members of the Guaido clan
After millions of attempts to overthrow Chavismo have failed, it is now the turn of the Colombian paramilitaries and their local franchises. To create chaos, explains Ivan Simonovis in a video, choked with sadism, like a Batman villain, where he tells his secret plan like chickens before hatching, celebrating a victory that will never come. (more…)