“Today, Latin America is living through an non-conventional coup plan against its progressive governments. It’s a new Plan Condor aiming to reinstate neo-liberalism, not by military dictatorships, but through the combined power of the mass media, national entrepreneurs, right-wing political parties and governments of the great powers,”
"Now the poor, the excluded, the landless and the homeless, who had hoped to reach happiness, will have to seek other party associations –or forge new political tools– based on ethics, the elimination of the causes of social inequalities and the search for another possible Brazil", writes Frei Betto.
History records the existence of a supposed democracy with slaves in Greece, and today the capitalists have tried to appropriate the term as if it were unique to their socio-economic system.
Cuban President Raul Castro, today mourned the death of legendary American boxer Muhammad Ali, declaring the Seventh Summit of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) closed.
A man with an assault rifle...took hostages and shot at close range in a crowded nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 50 people and wounding 53 before being shot fatally by police commandos.
The US State Department gave evidence of the sharp contrast between his long and windy criticisms of neighboring Venezuela and Washington’s complicit tolerance of the parliamentary coup in Brazil.
Sanders' successful and surprising campaign has cast doubt on many myths and taboos about the political thinking of ordinary Americans.
They took away his world title, they stopped him from boxing, they sentenced him to jail and a fine. he yells his thanks for these compliments to his human dignity.
Cubans now have to fight an enemy that is trying to seduce Cuba to regain the control it had on the island.