Alan Macleod The worldwide Covid vaccine rollout has gone anything but smoothly, with only a handful of countries able to immunize even 10% of their populations yet with a first dose. Two primary causes of this have been rich nations precious doses and their refusal to waive the intellectual property rights to their creations, both…
Neo-Nazis and Racism: A Global Reality
Sergio Ferrari The neo-Nazi movements in full swing, the white supremacist conceptions that are reproducing like mushrooms, the racist violence in every corner of the planet, without exception. These are social scourges that “are becoming a transnational threat”, as the United Nations has just warned during the opening of the 46th session of its Human…
Doctrine of Redundant Coercion: The State Department Document Shaping Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean
Jorge Elbaum Last Wednesday, the United States returned to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after three years of absence, decided by the Donald Trump administration. The first speech of the new Secretary of State Antony Blinken, however, did not differ one iota from the reasons given by the Republican for leaving this multilateral…
Ecuador: From Horror to Electoral Debate
Marco Teruggi Yaku Perez supporters protest in front of the National Electoral Council headquarters. Image: AFP Amidst denunciations and accusations the campaign for the April 11 runoff begins. Ecuador went from the electoral debate to counting deaths and sorrow. It happened on Tuesday night with aftershocks into Friday: several riots in four prisons in the…
How the CIA Helped to Crush Turkey’s Post-War Left
T.J. Coles Image by Diego González “The Growing Pains of Modernization” After the Second World War (1939-45), the U.S. became the dominant global power and fought its rival, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for international supremacy. Many countries became proxy battlegrounds between U.S. and Soviet influence. In addition to beating the Reds, U.S….
Alvaro García Linera: “We Are in the Second Progressive Wave”
García Linera in a dialogue with the program La Pizarra of AM750: Reflections on the electoral victory in Bolivia and on the situation of progressivism in Latin America. In Latin America we are living a second wave of moderate progressivism without the presence of charismatic leaderships. On the side of the conservative forces there is…
Legislative and Municipal Elections in El Salvador on Sunday
Peoples Dispatch From a protest rejecting Nayib Bukele’s authoritarianism this February 9. Photo: FMLN/Facebook This Sunday, on February 28, over 5.4 million Salvadorans will go to the polls to elect 84 legislators of the National Assembly, 262 mayors as well as 20 members of the Central American Parliament for the period 2021-2024. These upcoming elections…
Abya Yala: Chakana and Plurinationality
Ollantay Itzamná In Bolivia, a few days ago, as a result of the disclosure made by the plurinational government of its logo in the shape of the Chakana, sectors that executed the last Coup d’Etat in Bolivia harangued again against the symbolism of Abya Yala, this time, accusing the government of Arce-Choquehuanca of substituting, in…
The Unknown Relationship between Kwame Nkrumah and Malcolm X
Ahjamu Umi February 21, 2021 marked the 56th commemoration of the assassination of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz aka Malcolm X in Harlem, New York. The 24th marked the 50th commemoration of the CIA (Criminals In Action) sponsored coup that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah’s democratically elected government in Ghana. The close historical proximity of the downfall…
Cuba Has Assisted Almost One Third of the World’s Population in Health Care
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 23 (ACN) In the six decades of Cuban medical collaboration abroad, its health personnel have assisted 1.988 billion people in the world, almost a third of mankind, said Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, director of the Central Unit for Medical Cooperation (UCCM). Delgado Bustillo also assured that Cuban doctors have performed more than…
45th SADR Anniversary: Africa Will Never Be Free as Long as One of its Countries Remains Occupied
Pretoria (South Africa) Feb 24, 2021 (Sahara Press Servive) – African movements of solidarity with the Sahrawi people organized an “African Virtual Conference to Commemorate the 45th Anniversary of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic” on Wednesday called the AU to quickly intervene to protect Sahrawi civilians from Moroccan violations and put an end to the…
The Empire’s Hidden Hand: How the US Established, Sustains and Benefits from Morocco’s Occupation of Western Sahara
Dan Cohen On November 13, 2020, commanders from the United States and Morrocan militaries met to plan annual joint exercises. The following day, 1,000 Moroccan soldiers and 200 vehicles stormed into the Guerguerat border crossing – a key highway in the occupied Western Sahara that connects Morocco to Mauritania, built in violation of international law….
