This week the United States decides its future. Trump and Biden are playing a difficult game and the opinion polls seem not to favour the current president. But surprises should not be ruled out. According to the statistics website FiveThirtyEight, the president has barely a 13 per cent […]
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The very particular US-American elections
The names Jo Jorgensen and Howie Hawkins may be unknown to a good part of the US-American electorate just a few days before the country’s elections on 3 November. Martha Andrés Román Nevertheless, like Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, these two figures are contenders for the […]
Despite Covid, Cuba is leader in nickel production
Cuba is the fifth global metal reserve, the ninth nickel-producing country in the world and, despite the pandemic, will exceed 50,000 tons of metal extraction in 2020. Teyuné Díaz Díaz Juan Ruiz, the general director of Mining of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem), said in an […]
The pandemic that stripped neoliberalism
Covid-19 unleashes a crisis of enormous proportions that increases the one which had already been incubating since the previous year. Juan Diego García The recurrence of the economic crises confirmed that neoliberal discourse was false on such a decisive matter as this. The current pandemic confirms how neoliberal […]
Creating, imposing and maintaining inequality
The culture of privilege has three basic characteristics: normalised inequality as a hegemonic form of domination, established social position based on personal background, and the need for perpetuation. Teyuné Díaz Díaz This is how it is explained by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), […]