By Emilio Godoy, IPS. Mexico City – Local communities in Latin America should go to court more often to fight for access to drinking water, regarded as a universal right, and combine legal action with social protests and political lobbying, experts say. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. When the Palestinian application for full membership in UNESCO comes to the UN Security Council next month, the U.S. will certainly try to scuttle this membership. In doing so, the U.S. will lose all credibility in future Palestine-Israel negotiations.
Continue reading →By Franz Chávez, IPS. LA PAZ – With victory cheers and predictions of future campaigns in defense of their ancestral territory, indigenous protesters from Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region celebrated the new law that banned the construction of the road through their rainforest reserve.
Continue reading →By Staff, Venezuela Analysis. Central America has been suffering heavy human and economic losses due to several weeks of torrential rains that are expected to continue. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua are heading a worldwide campaign to request help with the disaster.
Continue reading →By Sebastián Amaya, El Observador | Translated by Lo de alla | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The case against the five Uruguayan MINUSTAH marines, who are under investigation for assaulting a Haitian boy in Port-Salut, could be filed away because the Uruguay court says that the Haitian boy has not reported for questioning and has not filed charges in Uruguay. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →This playful performance of A Night in Tunisia, in Havana in 1985, is offered as a bow to the Tunisian Revolution. Be sure to catch the brief commentary by Dizzy, who incidentally discovered Arturo.
Continue reading →By Andrew Leonard, Salon. “Half the workers of the world work in jobs that are off the books… The combined economic activity of these 1.8 billion workers adds up to $10 trillion. If this informal economy were squeezed into a single political structure, it would be the second largest economy in the world,” Robert Neuwirth writes in Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy.
Continue reading →By Fidel Castro Ruz, Granma. One of the most serious terrorist acts committed against Cuba was the in-flight sabotage of a Cuban airliner after it left Barbados with 73 people aboard. Orlando Bosch and Posada Carriles directed the sabotage, and the Cuban 5 have worked to thwart such actions.
Continue reading →By Fidel Castro Ruz, Prensa Latina. Two days ago on Friday October 14, Granma and Juventud Rebelde, the Communist Party and Youth League newspapers, published a brave and energetic message from Rene Gonzalez, Hero of the Republic.
Continue reading →By Dialogue 200 and Jubilee South Network, Press Release. We support the demands of our partner organizations in Haiti, who reject the presence of this occupation force and demand that the UN, instead of bringing new problems such as rape, murder and the cholera epidemic that has so far claimed more than 6,000 lives, proceed to apply exemplary sanctions and offer compensation to the victims.
Continue reading →A Poem by Fina Garcia Marruz | Translated by Kathleen Weaver. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Enrique Berruga Filloy, El Universal | Translated by Brandee Bilotta, Watching America | Princeton University | Pew Research Center. For the first time in 60 years, the net traffic of Mexicans to the United States has been reduced to zero and perhaps even shows a negative balance. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Xinhua via COMTEX and GTW | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s Senate has ratified Garry Conille, a Duvalierist Clinton aide and U.N. employee, as Prime Minister. See Conille translate for his boss, Bill Clinton, in the accompanying video.
Continue reading →Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Viengsay Valdés is the Prima Ballerina of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. She is considered the best ballerina in the world and one of its greatest dancers ever.
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