Many of us are people who traveled to Nicaragua on Solidarity Brigades in the 1980s to show our support with the revolutionary Sandinista government in the face of the US-backed Contra War. Yet, over the years, we have been disappointed by the increasingly reactionary turn of the Ortega regime.
Read MoreCuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel called the recently imposed US sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba “an act of extraterritoriality, interference and imperial arrogance,” reported the Communist Party’s Granma newspaper online on Saturday.
Read MoreThe Permanent Council of the OAS took up the issue of Nicaragua in a special session on Friday and heard the report of several experts and officials of the organization, among them Luis Angel Rosadilla, delegate of the OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, and witness of the negotiations.
Read MoreA large steel wheel, 14 meters in diameter and 1.3 meters wide, could be the energy solution of the near future, generating 3.5 megawatts – enough to supply a city of 30,000 people, according to a company in the capital city of the state of Amazonas in northwest Brazil.
Read MoreThe US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on two transportation companies operating in Venezuela’s oil sector, in a move announced on Friday. The measures appeared designed to also hit out at Cuba, which imports oil on favorable terms from the Latin American country.
Read MoreThe Organization of American States (OAS) meets on Friday in a special session to discuss the ongoing human rights crisis in Nicaragua. The session can be watched live at 1:00 p.m. ET (11 a.m. in Nicaragua) with the sound in Spanish or English. See the links in the article.
Read MoreSupporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and media crews gathered outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Friday, after the whistleblowing website Wikileaks tweeted that Assange was due to be kicked out of the building.
Read MoreSeveral initiatives are seeking to strengthen the fight against femicides in Latin America, a region which, despite growing popular mobilisation and pioneering legislation against gender-based murders, still has the world’s worst rates in what has been described as a “silent genocide,” says U.N. Women.
Read MoreAlthough the support of foreign states is an important factor in the current political standoff between Maduro and Guaido, it is the Venezuelan military that will determine whether there is any shift in power. Historically, the armed forces have played a decisive role in the country’s politics: the military oversaw Venezuela’s transition to democracy in 1958 and has had a strong influence on domestic politics ever since.
Read MoreThe ancient Qhara Qhara nation began a battle against the State of Bolivia in defence of its rich ancestral lands, in an open challenge to a government that came to power in 2006 on a platform founded on respect for the values and rights of indigenous peoples.
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