Cobalt Could be Blue Gold
Cobalt Could Become Cuba’s Blue Gold By Manuel E. Yepe http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/ Exclusive for the daily POR ESTO! of Merida, Mexico. Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann. Cuban economist Joaquin Benavides Rodriguez, who has served as government minister and leader of his country’s communist party in the area of his specialty, believes that Cuba has in […]
AMLO Zocalo Speech, December 1, 2019
Pueblo of Mexico ‘Guardian Angel’: AMLO, full speech in the Zócalo December 2, 2019 Translated and edited by Pedro Gellert for CubaNews. SPEECH DELIVERED BY ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR, PRESIDENT OF MEXICO ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HIS INAUGURATION Friends: The change we are undertaking is on the horizon. In the neoliberal period, laws were […]
Dominica: The Next Victim?
Ricardo Alarcon looks at this week's upcoming election in Dominica, and trouble-making OAS intervention there.
Bogotá Protests Militarization
Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez protests the military display in light of broad popular opposition and protest against government policies.
Google and Facebook Threaten Freedom
GRANMA reports on Amnesty International's view that Google and Facebook threaten freedom of speech and opinion.
Hitler’s Hollywood
GRANMA: The masses do not go to the cinema to be taught, but to evade a reality, hence the imperative to create artificial nirvanas for them. They didn't even disguise their intentions.
The First Yankee Blockade Against Cuba
Manuel Yepe shows that Washington's policy of blockading Cuba began long before the island's independence struggle in the 1890s.
The CIA and the George Orwell Paradox
GRANMA looks at how the Central Intelligence Agency manipulated George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 into anti-Communist propaganda.
AMLO’s Victory: Parting of the Waters
Manuel E. Yepe explains why AMLO's victory in Mexico marks a watershed in Latin America.s