The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) celebrated its first 15 years of existence amid a backdrop marked by the offensive of the imperial centres of power on the continent. William Urquijo Pascual This mechanism for integration founded by Cuba and Venezuela in […]
Latin America
In conversation with Yasmany Guerrero, star of “Buscando a Casal”
Cuban director Jorge Luis Sánchez had to wait more than twenty years to create his film about the poet Julián del Casal and premiere it at a film festival. Daniela Obrador The film “Buscando a Casal” (Finding Casal) was on the brink of production in 2007, but it wasn’t […]
Military repression aims to silence social unrest in Latin America
For popular movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, achieving high levels of political awareness and organisation is not enough whilst the ruling classes, in one way or another, maintain control of the armed forces.
The Press has allowed atrocities and corruption
For Chilean journalist Patricio Mery Bell, the press is an “accomplice to the return of neo-fascism” and has allowed the greatest violations of human rights. Highlighting European “hypocrisy”, he says that the left wing should re-establish its principles and that Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Rafael Correa have a lot […]
War, the human condition, the animal condition
Recreation is part of the day to day of war, especially when it is boys and girls who are there in the line of fire. A group of teenagers in the face of a military conflict. Santiago Zapata is the producer of “Monos”, film selected as a candidate to represent […]