Although the macroeconomic figures were showing a healthy country in 2019, the slowdown has since left its mark on employment and household income which inequality made more visible in the economic sectors and geographical areas where poverty predominates. The Covid-19 pandemic rushed the downturn. Osvaldo Rodríguez Martínez Reports […]
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US blockade against Cuba: immoral and criminal
The negative impact caused by the economic blockade enforced by the United States against Cuba increased with Covid-19. Details released by the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) point out that this US policy denies the largest country in the Antilles the right to acquire technology, raw materials, reagents, diagnostic […]
Religion’s malevolence
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that currently heads the coalition Assembly in Northern Ireland was formed by Ian Paisley, a Protestant evangelical minister. Sean Sheehan Although he honed a brand of hate speech directed at Catholics (‘they breed like rabbits and multiply like vermin’) and the papacy (‘I […]
Elder care in a pandemic
During the pandemic, I have been unable to visit my parents, because they are elderly, and my father in particular has poor health. Steve Latham It’s been especially tragic, because recently, he has gone into a respite care home, in order to give my mother, his principle carer, […]
The perversity of the Latin American right
Moreno, Duque and Piñera, presidents of Ecuador, Colombia and Chile; Macri, former president of Argentina, and Almagro, secretary general of the OAS, are meeting on 5 May at the forum “Defending Democracy in the Americas” in Miami. Pierre Lebret* It was not a joke, nor the last supper, […]