Left Review Online August 10, 2020
Unilateral economic sanctions against countries like Cuba and Venezuela are causing today greater suffering and limitations for their people amid the Covid-19 pandemic, UN independent rapporteurs warned. According to a report by five UN experts, humanitarian exemptions to the sanctions are not working, and people cannot adequately protect...more
More than 40 European organizations are backing a proposal to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Cuban Doctors (medical brigades) of the Henry Reeve Contingent, for their contribution to the global battle against COVID-19. Launched April 28 by the associations Cuba Linda and France Cuba, the initiative has...more
Argentina is near a new default of "its" debt. It is "its" debt because the debt cycles in Argentina - like in most of the developing countries - are always a complex process of facts in which injustice are most of the time the rule. In the enormous...more
Kathmandu. Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said this Thursday the military action announced by the U.S. government, involving the deployment of warships near Venezuela and special troop movements, is a serious threat to peace for all in the region. Rodriguez Parrilla described the alleged fight against drug...more
Kathmandu. Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, thanked this Wednesday the many voices that in the United States and from different parts of the world are demanding, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on his country by...more
Kathmandu. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz led the daily meeting at the Revolution Palace on Wednesday afternoon, which reviewed in detail the situation with COVID-19 in Cuba, where 212 cases have been confirmed, including six deaths. Speaking at the meeting, the head...more
Guatemala. International League of Peasants' Struggle (ILPS) Guatemala demands to stop the imperialist aggression against Iran. Releasing a statement on February 01, IPLS Guatemala condemned the US imperialist aggression in the Middle East and stated that such aggression can only lead to death and poverty. ILPS reports the...more
When a project develops new technologies, lasts more than 30 years, and is realized with two completely different countries located on the antipodes of the globe, a "community of shared future" is created. That is the case with CBERS, the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite program that recently put...more
Kathmandu. Former Bolivian President Evo Morales called on leaders of his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) to meet next week to choose their candidates, in view of the elections expected to take place next year in that country. Morales, who has been very active since he arrived last week...more
Havana. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday rejected neoliberalism, which impoverishes the countries of Latin America, and repeated his support for the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua, which are under the hostility of the United States. In his speech at the closing of the 4th session of the...more
Kathmandu. Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has denounced the US intervention in Venezuela and expressed its solidarity with the people of Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro. Today, Chairman of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' strongly denounced the US intervention against the Bolivarian Republic stating it...more
(This article was originally published on April 04, 2013. Today the importance of this article is highly significant when two Korea are on high level talks and 'Rays of Hope' are being observed in the Korean Peninsula. - Editor) A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges...more