May 7, 2021 by Alejandra Marín Buitrago (from https://www.counterpunch.org/) Photograph Source: Humano Salvaje – CC BY-SA 2.0 In the last week, Colombia has experienced the most widespread civil unrest of its modern history. Since Wednesday, April 28th, millions of people have taken to the streets to fight back against a […]
The Main Obstacle in the Fight Against COVID: Inequality
By Ariela Ruiz Caro, April 2021 A year and a month after that ill-fated March day when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 to be a pandemic, humanity now has available thirteen vaccines approved for emergency use. The pandemic, which has infected 133 million people and left 2.9 million […]
An Unstoppable Wave against the Blockade of Cuba
By Pedro Martínez Pírez on April 26, 2021 This past Sunday, and in spite of the COVID pandemic, many people around the world once again came out against the U.S. blockade of Cuba. And for the first time, a regatta was held in front of the Havana seawall with the […]
The Network in Defense of Humanity Rejects the Aggressions by Armed Groups against Venezuela near the Border with Colombia
April 5, 2021 The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity, in view of the confrontations that began on March 21 between the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and irregular armed groups in La Victoria, Apure State, near the Colombian border, declares: -It is an insistently repeated […]
Colombia-Venezuela Border: The Truth about the Conflict
By Yoselina Guevara L. on April 19, 2021 Venezuela shares with Colombia not only 2,219 km of borders, but also a history that unites them. A union that emerged solidly under the command of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, against a common enemy such as the Spanish Empire, and that was […]
Chile: The Left that Fell Asleep is Being Carried Away By the Current
By Manuel Cabieses Donoso Another Chile is possible. Photo: Shirley Choenen The founders of the revolutionary doctrine have laid the groundwork for the objective and subjective conditions. The ideal situation for a step forward is the conjunction of both. But no revolutionary – from Lenin to Fidel Castro – waited […]
Campaign of Struggles: The MST Donates More than 100 Tons of Food in Brazil
The Landless Workers Movement (MST) is in solidarity and shares its harvest with the workers affected by the food crisis that the country is suffering, in the situation where more than half of the Brazilian population is not guaranteed that they will have food on the table. It is estimated […]
Militarization of Colombia is a Key Aspect of U.S. Hemispheric Control
By Vicente Guevara on April, 2021 Colombia has historically been of great importance as an ally of the United States. It could perhaps even be said that it has been the empire’s most constant and unfaltering ally in the region since at least World War II. Today, under President Biden, […]