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 […]
Latin America
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, […]
Colombia: the cry of the humiliated and mistreated
What started as a protest against tax reform and other similar education and health measures, cuts that were undoubtedly neoliberal, has become a veritable storm of rage and indignation, a fight against the poverty that these reforms do nothing but exacerbate.
British MPs call for lifting of blockade on Cuba
Fifty seven British members of parliament have signed a motion in the British Parliament which calls on the British Government to promote international cooperation between the UK and Cuba and urge the Biden administration to normalise relations by removing Cuba from its ‘state sponsors of terrorism’ list and ending the […]
‘Unforgivable’ director: “If the gang knows you’re gay, they kill you”
The ideas of masculinity, discrimination and homophobia within El Salvador’s gangs are at the heart of “Unforgivable,” a documentary which explores how these under-reported topics affect gang violence. BARRIO 18 / Victoria Dittma The short film unfolds inside the overcrowded prison of San Francisco Gotera, in El Salvador’s […]
















